The Legislative Duma of Tomsk Oblast
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APRIL 29, 2015. PERFORMANCE REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT OF TOMSK OBLAST FOR 2014 DELIVERED BY TOMSK OBLAST GOVERNOR SERGEY ZHVACHKIN AT THE SESSION OF THE LEGISLATIVE DUMA OF TOMSK OBLAST
Dear Mrs Kozlovskaya, dear deputies and guests!
Following our tradition, I would like to present my annual report and update you on the progress of our nine top priority ‘beacon’ projects. I will be presenting such updates until we finish the work on these projects.
The first ‘beacon’ is the project Development Institutes.
In 2014, we achieved significant progress in setting up industrial parks. More than 373 million rubles was spent on this initiative, including 280 million rubles from the federal budget. We completed land planning, installed water supply networks, built a pumping station, installed power grids and ran gas lines. The infrastructure is 70% complete. We also concluded agreements with 17 potential residents, which is 75% of the capacity of the park.
The site will help boost small business and launch mass production of science intensive products. Ultimately, we are creating more jobs and diversify the economy.
Our second ‘beacon’ is the project Tomsk Universities – Global Status.
Our national research universities – Tomsk State University and Tomsk Polytechnic University – had significantly moved up in the QS rating. TSU went up 100 positions, TPU – 70.
The universities keep developing their infrastructure. TSU populated a new dormitory with 1,200 students. TUSUR commissioned a new building and started construction of a dormitory. TPU is working on the training and laboratory complex, a swimming pool, and a dormitory for 720 students.
Today, students from 47 foreign countries and 75 regions of Russia study in Tomsk universities. No wonder that the International Council on enhancing competitiveness of leading Russian universities led by Russian Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov included TSU and TPU in top 4 leading universities of Russia. Our PR project Study in Tomsk! won a national PR contest Silver Archer in the category Best project for development and promotion of territories.
The ‘beacon’ Roads and Transport System.
We keep working on extending and rebuilding the Northern Latitude highway. We completed the repairs of a 22-km section of the Mogilny Mys – Parabel – Kargasok road. We also repaired a 15-km section of the same road running through Kolpashevsky District.
We signed an agreement with the governor of Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev, on the construction of a motor road from Tomsk to Taiga. We also plan to repair and build a 12-km long road from Basandaika railway station to the border with Kuzbass. This project will be funded on the public-private partnership terms.
We also signed a trilateral cooperation agreement with the government of Novosibirsk Oblast and the company North Transit, on the construction of a motor road from Igol to Orlovka. The length of the road is 455 km – 46 km across our region, 45 km across Novosibirsk region, and 364 km belong to Tomskneft. In the south, the road will connect to the federal highway M51 Baikal and the Trans-Siberian Railway. In the north, it leads to the Northern Latitude highway and Yugra through Strezhevoy.
The bridge across the Vakh river was undoubtedly the most important project in the regional transport system development scope. It is 8 km long and it connects the capital of Tomsk Oblast oil industry – the city of Strezhevoy – with Nizhnevartovsk which belongs to the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. It is a bridge connecting Siberia with the Urals. The centuries-old dream of Strezhevoy has come true.
New roads for our region are not only a possibility to get from point A to point B. They also expand opportunities for the harvesting and forest fruit picking industries and service enterprises along their entire length.
Still other ‘beacon’ is the project Tomsk Gas for Tomsk People.
We finished building gas distribution networks in 19 facilities in Tomsk and Tomsky, Shegarsky, and Aleksandrovsky Districts. It is 225 km of gas distribution pipelines, and more than 5,000 households now being able to connect to the system.
Ten per cent of the region’s population – 36,000 households – are already using this rather inexpensive and environmentally friendly fuel.
Our gas distribution program is unique because not only people but also small business benefit from it. Natural gas is cheap and sustainable fuel. That creates more opportunities for our farmers to build livestock breeding farms and set up competitive production.
We keep working on this program in 2015. This year the pipelines will be run to Shegarsky, Asinovsky, Bakcharsky, Chainsky, and Teguldetsky Districts. Designing of the gas supply facilities for Zyryanovsky and Pervomaysky Districts is starting soon. Gazprom has allocated 800 million rubles for the program.
The Nuclear Breakthrough ‘beacon’.
The Siberian Chemical Combine is working on a federal program New generation of nuclear energy technologies. As part of the effort they continue developing a large project on setting up a trial and demonstration complex. They have developed design and estimate documents and obtained permits. This project is infusing new life into the nuclear capital of Tomsk Oblast. Rosatom and the federal budget invested 2.28 billion rubles last year. The work starts this year.
We achieved great progress in the implementation of the ‘beacon’ Nursery School for Every Kid.
Last year we extended the capacity of the region’s nursery schools by 2,486 additional places. We built 7 new schools on the public-private partnership terms, expanded 5 schools, repaired 24 schools and rebuilt one. Almost 400 million rubles was allocated for pre-school education from the federal budget.
Multiple demonstrations of mothers demanding more nursery schools are now past. Our children have access to good quality pre-school education and can socialize with their peers. Their mothers now can work and develop their careers.
Tomsk Embankments is another ‘beacon’ we are working on. The cost of the project exceeds 46 billion rubles.
Last year we completed a number of engineering surveys of the bed of the river Tom and concluded a contract with Tomgiprotrans for the development of design and estimate documentation for the construction of a dam. The Lengiprogor institute has started working on the master plan for the project. The company St. Petersburg – Granite has started the reconstruction of the embankment of the river Ushaika and the central part of the Lenina Avenue. The work is 100% financed by Gazprom. Completion is scheduled for 2016.
We also held an open contest for the best architectural and town-planning concept for the Museum of Science and Technology which will be built on the bank of the river Tom. The project is in progress now.
The cost of the ‘beacon’ project Akadempark is estimated at 0.5 billion rubles with completion scheduled for 2020.
Last year we developed the concept and completed the town-planning documents. I put in charge of the work group the mayor of Tomsk Ivan Klyain. They started construction of facilities such as a skiing and skating run. And there should be more facilities like this – convenient and much needed by Tomsk people. I urge the investors to have a look.
Finally, the ninth ‘beacon’ Economy of Nature.
I already talked about the considerable impact of the forest industry on the economy of the region. At the same time, it has a much greater potential. We developed from scratch a unified automated forest management system and started working on a cluster of renewable natural resources.
Almost 170 million rubles was invested in the forest fruit picking and processing industry, which is 40% more than a year ago. Nine rubles out of ten are investments by businesses. Processing companies bought forest fruit worth almost a billion rubles. Processing facilities in Asinovsky, Molchanovsky, Verkhneketsky, and Tomsky Districts were upgraded. Two stores Gifts of Nature opened in Tomsk. A Siberian pine nut advanced processing facility was commissioned, new chaga mushroom processing and mushroom extracts production technologies were implemented.
Together we launched the program Development of fishing industry in Tomsk Oblast. We commissioned more than 500 hectares of fishery water bodies. For the first time in 20 years we revitalized studies to determine optimum sturgeon and whitefish catch and map their spawning areas and wintering holes. We also opened a trout farm in Kudrinsky Quarry near Tomsk – the first in the Oblast.
The fish canning facility in Aleksandrovskoye has fully resumed operations. Last year it produced 1.2 million cans. Kolpashevsky Fish Factory and the company Fish from April opened four specialized fish stores in Tomsk, Asino, and Kolpashevo carrying more than 250 articles.
We started tracking wildlife. The study covered almost 11,000 kilometers of wildlife trails running across forests, fields, and swamps. As a result we found an increase in the population of main hunting species such as elk, wild reindeer, sable, upland game.
Economy starts with accounting. The more accurate are the estimates of the resources under the Economy of Nature effort, the more efficiently these resources will be distributed and the more opportunities will open for entrepreneurs and investors. Thousands of new jobs will be created in villages and taiga zone settlements.
These nine ‘beacons’ are part of a larger initiative to create an innovative territorial center in Tomsk Oblast – INOTomsk. We are working on this project with 12 Russian Ministries and leaders of the largest Russian companies.
The concept of the INOTomsk project was officially approved by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on January 14, 2014. The document describes the development thrust for Tomsk Oblast in areas such as nuclear technology, petroleum chemistry, electronics, IT, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment, renewable natural resources. This initiative covers at least two five-year plans – the term popular in Soviet times.
Together with the federal government, the region’s academia and business partners we developed the concept of the INOTomsk project with the maximum possible granularity. As the governor of the region, I am satisfied with the result of this work. You will not find nice-to-have’s or sandcastles in this document. Each program, each subproject are very clearly described by developers – federal and regional government agencies, companies such as Gazprom, Rosatom, Rosneft, SIBUR, Gazprom Neft, Microgen, etc. Small business is supporting the project as well. It is like a watch in a transparent case where the workings of the entire mechanism, every single spring and sprocket are visible.
What does INOTomsk mean for the Oblast?
First of all, it is large scale investments – more than 200 billion rubles until 2020. Private business capital accounts for 65%, federal and regional budgets provide the remaining 35%. Those are realistic plans – over the last three years private and public investments in the INOTomsk project totaled almost 40 billion rubles. Also, the research and educational complex received 75 billion rubles.
Secondly, INOTomsk means new production facilities, new jobs, and naturally more income to the regional budget.
Thirdly, it brings our universities and research institutes to the new levels of performance, as they play one of the most important roles in this project.
Fourthly, INOTomsk literally opens for the people of Tomsk Oblast new corridors to the neighboring regions.
And, finally, this concept will make Tomsk and the Oblast a better and more comfortable place to live, work, recreate and raise children.
I would like to thank my team and the deputies for their cooperation. Thank you all people of Tomsk Oblast for sageness and understanding.
