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 INVITATION

 

Wednesday 3 March 2010

 

Brussels, avenue Louise, 500

at 17: 00 p.m.

 

The Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce for Russia & Belarus & BECI

 are very pleased to invite you to attend the Official presentation of Ulyanovsk

 

Speaker:

 

Alexander Alexandrovich Smekalin Director of the of Investments
and External Relations Department of the Government of the Ulyanovsk Region

 

Doing Business in ULYANOVSK REGION (RUSSIA)

 

Ulyanovsk Region Administration, CCBLR and BECI organize an Official Presentation on new high investment potentials and prospects of one of most economically promising regions of Russia.

Please find below the application form and a short information on business opportunities in the Ulyanovsk region.

You will receive a complete information and we are convinced that you will find your business niche.

A Q&A time will also allow you to raise the main questions you have about the present and future of your investments.

 

Please keep also in mind that an Economic Mission in Ulyanovsk will be organized by our Chamber and BECI.

 

 

 

A drink will be offered after the conference

 

                              We are looking forward to meeting you again!

 

 

         Doing Business in Russia. But why in ULYANOVSK Region ?

 

The region is located in the central part of European Russia in the heart of the Middle Volga on both sides of the Volga River. It has an area of 37 300 km2 and is divided into 21 districts, 6 cities, and 32 towns. It is located mainly on the Volga Uplands and has borders with the Republic of Mordovia, the Chuvash Republic, the Republic of Tatarstan, and Penza, Saratov, and Samara regions.

 

Ulyanovsk Region is connected to all parts of Russia by air, rail, water, and road transport. There are 729 km of railway lines and 7840 km of roads, but water transport predominates. The river ports of Ulyanovsk and Sengilei, outfitted with new modern equipment, are the region's largest ports. The Volga flows for 200 km through the region, giving access to five seas. International air routes connecting the Volga area with Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and China also pass through the region. There are two large modern airports capable of handling all types of aircraft. Volga-Dnepr operates the world's heaviest airplane, the AN-124 Ruslan, and is the world's largest cargo airline. A modern telecommunications network ensures reliable connections with all countries of the world.

Nature is rich and beautiful, with a variety of landscapes, from fields and mountains, hills and valleys, to mixed forests, rivers, and lakes. The region is famous for the Undory resort, the ancient Beloe Lake, Yulovsky Pond, and the Sura River.

Ulyanovsk has a relatively well-developed raw mineral resource base. Oilfields have been discovered here, and there are large reserves of cement-making materials, building, glassmaking, and foundry sand, clay aggregate, diatomite, brick-making materials, oil shale, and peat. There are also underground reserves of medicinal and mineral waters. The Volzhanka mineral water bottling plant has an output capacity of 24 million bottles per year.

Industry plays a leading role in the regional economy, with engineering (aircraft manufacturing, instrument making, machine tool manufacture, and car manufacturing) being the core industry. The textile, light, and food industries are also well developed, and companies in the construction, woodworking, and forest industries operate here as well. Altogether, there are 200 large industrial companies employing nearly 174 000 people. A nuclear reactor research institute operates in the region.

Worth noting are the Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant (UAZ), one of the country's leading car manufacturers, and Aviastar, the world's largest aircraft manufacturing complex. UAZ specializes in the production of the famous UAZ all-terrain vehicles.

Companies in the region have extensive foreign economic ties and maintain trade relations with 69 countries and 53 Russian regions. Over 50 companies with foreign investment, most of them in Ulyanovsk, currently operate in the region. The region also provides air and road transportation services for foreign partners, as well as international tourist services. Economic and cultural ties are being re-established with the CIS countries.

Ulyanovsk Region is part of the Volga River sub district of the Volga economic region. A well-developed transportation system and favourable economic situation have an impact on regional economic development. The region is noted for production of cars, machine tools, automatic circuit re-closers, press-forging machines, electric crane motors, water sprinklers, and other machines. Other developed sectors include the flour-milling, meat, butter-making, starch and molasses, distilling, building material, and woodworking industries.

Small businesses involved in processing semi-finished products and secondary raw materials from large industrial enterprises play an important role in supplying goods to the market. More than 1000 small private companies form the basis of the region's small industrial sector.

Oil industry activity is expanding full speed ahead. Increasing oil production and setting up oil refining facilities employing environmentally appropriate technologies are the industry's priority lines of development.

The NAFTA-Ulyanovsk joint venture is carrying out two important investment projects: "Development of eight oil fields in Ulyanovsk Region" and "Construction of the Ulyanovsk Oil Refinery (Ulyanovsky NPZ) with an annual output of 500 000 tons."

The region has a developed financial system consisting of banks and other financial institutions. Leading rating agencies rank Ulyanovsk Region among the 20 Russian regions with the most favourable investment conditions.

Ulyanovsk is the region's main industrial centre, where large engineering plants and light industries producing fabrics, knitted goods, and shoes are located. The second-largest industrial centre is Melekes, which has a flax mill, mechanical plant, a knitting mill, wood-finishing plants, and flour mills.

 

Eighty-two oil fields have been discovered in Ulyanovsk Region, 24 of which are in operation. Specialists have evaluated total oil reserves at more than 35 million tons. Oil production is increasing year by year.

Ulyanovsk Region also has substantial reserves of other raw materials used in industry, such as various kinds of sand, cement materials, clays, and peat. One of the largest quartz sand deposits in the CIS, the Tashlinskoe deposit, is located in the region. High-quality glassmaking sand from the deposit is delivered to glass factories in various Russian regions. The Pukyanovskoe deposit is a well- known source of foundry sand. Raw cement materials are produced at the Kremenskoe deposit. The region is fully supplied with cement- and glassmaking materials, heat insulation products, filtered powder, chalk, construction lime, reinforced concrete products, lime-sand brick, and natural sorbents and even supplies other regions with these resources. Ulyanovsk Region has enough mineral resources to meet regional demand, and in the case of certain minerals, federal demand; however, marketing research is necessary in order to develop effective import-export relations in the region.

 

Registration:

 

Please send a mail, attention Olga Bogdanova at following e-mail address: ccblr@belgacom.net   with copy on: arkarian@yahoo.fr

 

Please acknowledge your participation by February 28

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