VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The city of Kaluga is the administrative center of Russia's Kaluga Region. The first historic records of the city date back to 1371.
As of the beginning of 2009, the city had a population of 341,700.
Industry comprises most of Kaluga's economy, employing over 45,000 people. Since 2005, the city's industrial production volumes have grown 2.8 times. Kaluga's small and medium businesses employ 49,800 people, or 32.4% of the city's economically active population.
The city budget revenues have increased 2.5 times in the past four years.
This year's revenue per person is 15,100 rubles, an increase of three times over 2005 putting Kaluga among the top three cities in the Central Federal District.
Over half of the city budget is allocated to the social and cultural sectors including education, healthcare, culture, social policies, physical fitness and sports.
From 2005 through 2009, a total of 795 city families have improved their living conditions. Last year saw 185,200 square meters of new housing constructed, with 200 young families receiving accommodations in the residential settlement of Molodyozhny.
The city's industry continues to grow and change its structure due to the current implementation of investment projects. Car giants Volkswagen and Volvo have launched assembly plants, while the Peugeot Citroën and Mitsubishi Motors alliance has initiated the construction of an assembly plant. Russia's Becema, Merkator-Holding and Canada's Magna International have also launched auto parts plants in the city.
Meanwhile, due to the current global economic crisis, over 1,100 job cuts are planned by the end of this year, while over 9,000 people were employed part time as of October, 2009.
A special anti-crisis commission has been launched in the city to battle the economic breakdown. The newly-developed anti-crisis plan has resulted in over 7,900 Kaluga residents being employed in public works and 750 people enrolling in an advanced training program in this year's first nine months, which helped minimize the negative impact of the crisis. Currently, city unemployment rates are at 0.84%, or three times lower than Russia's average.
Despite the economic crisis, local large and medium enterprises have invested a total of 9.7 billion rubles into the economic and social sectors in this year's first six months, for 30.6% growth over 2008.
A number of investment projects are currently being discussed, worth a total value of $400 million to provide about 3,000 new jobs.
