Exhibition of Innovative Development Projects in the Sverdlovsk Region
Innovative technologies and projects developed in the Sverdlovsk Region are on display at the exhibition, as well as successful examples of industrial modernisation and innovative infrastructure development.
Industrial Innovations
Uralmash Engineering Corporation is Russia's leading manufacturer of equipment for the metallurgy, mining, oil and gas industries, as well as other sectors. In association with Gazprombank, the plant began to implement its 2010-2012 investment programme worth more than 5.8 billion roubles.
The Dzerzhinsky Uralvagonzavod Research and Production Corporation (UVZ) is Russia's largest multifunctional engineering complex which produces over 200 types of products for civil and military purposes. The plant is currently undergoing a major renovation, and it has invested 1.5 to 2 billion roubles annually into this, using its own funds and borrowed funds.
New-generation gondola cars are the corporation's latest development. And Uralvagonzavod signed its largest ever contract worth about 68 billion roubles with Russian Railways for the delivery of 40,650 gondola cars from 2008 to 2010.
Innovations in Medicine
The Irbit Chemical and Pharmaceutical Plant is one of the few domestic enterprises to maintain production of active pharmaceutical ingredients in post-Soviet Russia. Over the next five years, the plant will invest 500 million roubles in the development of new medicines, and this year it will unveil two new production lines in conformity with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards. Investments in the project total 150 million roubles.
Medsintez Plant is a part of the Yuno Group of Companies. It was the first in Russia to start producing ready-made forms of genetically modified insulin identical to human insulin in January 2008. Early this year the supervisory board of Rosnano, a state-run corporation, approved the funding for the plant’s project.
Innovations in Transport
In the next six years, 62 billion roubles will be invested into updating the transport infrastructure of the Sverdlovsk Region, which includes 46 billion roubles allocated by the regional budget. The regional authorities came up with a project to introduce high-speed train services from Yekaterinburg to Moscow and from Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Tagil.
The development of the Metro in Yekaterinburg is expected to lessen the burden on city streets and roads by 30%. In 2011, there are plans to channel almost 4 billion roubles allocated by budgets at various levels into building and commissioning two Metro stations, Chkalovskaya and Botanicheskaya, in Yekaterinburg.
Social Innovations
A federal targeted programme to develop a network of preschool educational institutions in the Sverdlovsk Region from 2010 to 2014 is currently being implemented. In July and August 2010, the regulation of the maximum capacity of childcare centres in the Middle Urals helped open up new capacities for 2,283 children in childcare centres. Also, three childcare centres providing childcare to 75, 135 and 270 children are slated to be built under the programme.
The creation of the network of inter-municipal perinatal centres in the Sverdlovsk Region is nearing completion. Another such centre was unveiled recently in Nizhny Tagil and a new perinatal complex will soon open in Yekaterinburg.
Innovations in Housing and Utilities
The regional authorities have developed a programme to boost energy conservation measures and improve energy efficiency in the region from 2010 to 2015. The programme has set a target for reducing the energy intensity of the gross regional product by 40% compared with 2007 and aims to have primary energy savings equivalent to a total of at least 188 million tonnes of standard fuel, or about 280 billion roubles.
Yekaterinburg has a single housing and public utilities control centre for managing energy services, housing and public utilities in the city. The centre has legal and organisational support and includes an electronic document managing system and others integrated with it, such as a geo-information system and a monitoring system for technological parameters.
Innovations in Sport
The renovation of the ski jump complex on Dolgaya Mountain is under way. Today, construction workers are hard at work to complete the modern centre of international standards for training the national Nordic combined and ski jumping teams by the end of 2012, in 25 months. Apart from the ski jumps, the complex will have a ski stadium with an 860 seat capacity, an observation deck, a hotel and various commercial facilities.
Innovations in Science and Education
The Ural Federal University (UFU) was set up by merging the region’s two leading universities - the Gorky Ural State University and the Yeltsin Ural State Technical University. By February 1, 2011, UFU is expected to have its first institutes, which are the Institute of Information and Telecommunications Systems and Technologies, the Institute of Physics and Technology, the Basic Education Institute, the Energy Institute, the Institute of Material Science and Metallurgy, the Institute of Physical Culture and Social Management, the Higher School of Economics and Management at the Yeltsin Ural Federal University, the Humanities and Arts Institute, the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Institute of Social and Political Sciences at the Gorky Ural State University.
