Territories for business

Sergey Nikitin, executive director of the Investment promotion agency of the Samara region

— In the Samara region everything is done so that investors could have the opportunity to build their business quickly, comfortably, and successfully. Togliatti territory of advancing social and economic development (TASED), Chapaevsk TASED and Togliatti special economic zone (SEZ), Zhigulevskaya Dolina high-tech industrial park, state and private industrial parks, such as Preobrazhenka, Chapaevsk, Togliattisintez, AvtoVAZ, Stavropolsky, Novosmeykino actively develop, complement each other, and provide investors with all the necessary line of support, preferences and benefits, and the necessary infrastructure.

We have great hopes for development of Chapayevsk TASED. The corresponding status was assigned to the city in 2019. An investor who comes here to work will receive a number of advantages, including privileged regime and the ability to quickly launch a low-cost project. Companies that would like to develop on this site will have a chance to attract preferential financing from the Monotown development fund at a rate of 0%. Resident companies will also be provided with ready-made engineering and transport infrastructure of the state industrial park adjacent to Chapayevsk. We are sure that Chapayevsk TASED has great potential.

I note that according to the results of the National investment climate rating of 2019 the Samara Region rose by 24 positions and entered the group of regions with the best dynamics. In addition, this year the region took one of the leading positions in Moody’s credit rating, conceding only to Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Moscow Region, the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and the republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan. The forecast for the Samara region was also improved from “stable” to “positive”. The region also rose to a higher position according to one of the leading international rating agencies Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings. In its creditability rating the Samara region stepped from BB to BB + level and received a “stable” forecast.

For many business representatives, especially for foreign companies, these data are an indicator of the investment attractiveness of the region. An advantage for investors is the special territorial location of the Samara region. The federal highway M-5 «Ural» passes through the region, as well as the direct Samara-Kazakhstan highway. Kurumoch international airport, located in the Samara region, is in the TOP-12 of the largest airports in Russia, and Samara railway station is one of the largest in Europe. The region also has three river ports with access to five seas: the Caspian, Baltic, White, Black, and Azov. As a result, the Samara region is of interest to investors in terms of locating logistics and distribution centers here. For example, with the support of the Investment promotion agency, Mail of Russia plans to build a logistics center on the territory of Preobrazhenka industrial park.

It is planned that investment in this project will exceed 1.3 billion rubles, and more than 1 thousand jobs will be created. Also, a number of negotiations are underway with large international and Russian companies on construction of logistics and distribution centers in the Samara region.

The region should become one of the leaders in the field of investment attractiveness: such a goal is set by the governor Dmitry Azarov. According to the decree of the government of the Samara region, the Investment promotion agency is assigned the status of a specialized organization for working with investors in the “single window” mode. Now we, together with ministries, development institutions, investment sites, as well as investors, identify factors that prevent the increase in investment activity, and take measures to eliminate them. We also research investment niches in the region, look for opportunities to integrate into cooperation chains of enterprises, study the resources of the local sales market and on this basis form proposals for investors.

In addition, we find specialized investors, select partners and sites for them to be located in the region, select a set of preferences and tax benefits for them to work successfully and safely in the region. If our proposal is of interest for an investor, we are engaged in supporting his project at all stages, starting from structuring and ending with launching the plant. When an investor needs to expand production or find a supplier in the region, our cooperation with him continues also after implementation of the main project.

Taking into account, among other things, the intensive promotion of our region at investment forums and other specialized sites, we are doing everything possible to make as many people as possible be aware of the Samara Region.

Business development in the region, in turn, contributes to implementation of national projects “Small and medium-sized enterprises and support for entrepreneurial initiatives” and “International cooperation and export” in our territory.

Currently the Investment promotion agency of the Samara region is assisting in implementation of 41 projects in the amount of about 171 billion rubles. Companies that already operate in the Samara region, such as Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, BOSCH, DANONE, Shneider Electric, Knauf, LINDE GROUP, Valeo alliance, are confirmation of successful business in the Samara region for new investors.