1 August 2024
Sakhalin Region will
again participate in the ‘Far East Street’ exhibition, scheduled to take place
on 3–8 September as part of the Eastern Economic Forum 2024 in Vladivostok. The
exhibition is being organized by the Roscongress Foundation with the support of
the Office of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal
District. The country’s only island region will present major investment and
social projects, share its unique history and culture, and touch on the
development of unmanned aviation.
“Sakhalin Region is one
of the Far East’s investment leaders, and it’s in the country’s top three per
capita. It came in fourth in last year’s National Investment Climate Rating and
ranks among the top three nationwide every year for national project indicators
and first among the constituent entities of the Far Eastern Federal District. Sakhalin
and the Kuril Islands interest investors, but they also have a lot to offer
tourists, and hotels are going up across the region as new tourist routes are
created. One of the country’s most famous ski resorts, Mountain Air, is located
here. And the local capital of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk has plans for its own
transformation into a resort city and recreational medical site of federal
significance, something facilitated by the fast changing urban environment of
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and the implementation of the Master Plan. I believe the
region is worth visiting and has good reason to be proud,” Deputy Prime
Minister of the Russian Federation and Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to
the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev said.
The main Sakhalin
Region pavilion on ‘Far East Street’ will take the form sails and the silhouettes
of whales riding the waves. Next to that is the scallop shell pavilion of an
investor. All around are the figures of fish and sea creatures around a
six-meter grey whale.
The Sakhalin pavilion
will host presentations for major investment initiatives in a wide range of
sectors.
“The task of our
exposition at the 9th Eastern Economic Forum is to show that
untouched nature can co-exist in Sakhalin Region with a strong, growing economy
and increasing scientific research. Pavilion visitors will learn more about how
natural gas is liquefied at a plant in the south of Sakhalin and will be shown
a model of an LNG tanker. We will tell you about investment projects built with
advanced technologies, such as an oil and gas industrial park to serve
companies developing offshore hydrocarbon deposits on the Sakhalin shelf. The
region is preparing to welcome the Eastern Hydrogen Cluster, where
environmentally friendly fuel will be developed along with the technologies for
its use. The pavilion will also host presentations for IT and artificial
intelligence, locally produced drones, and talks about how and where they will
be applied. Projects dedicated to the development of regional transport
infrastructure, such as the Ports of Poronaisky and Korsakov, the latter of
which is slated to join the Northern Sea Route, will occupy a special place in
the exposition,” Governor of the Sakhalin Region Valery Limarenko said.
More than 10,000 jobs
for highly skilled workers will be created in the region in the coming years
thanks to these and other such projects, and the Government of Sakhalin
believes they should be filled primarily by locals. If this is going to happen,
however, young Sakhaliners and residents of the Kurils will need to be able to
access quality education for these professions in the region and housing where
they can settle down and raise children.
The necessary
conditions will be created within the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk agglomeration, and it
is this project that will occupy the place of honor in the exposition.
A campus for
SakhalinTech consisting of an educational centre and student village is
currently under construction in the regional capital. The institution is being
built through the island’s university and will train specialists for local
companies working in areas where demand is high: oil and gas, ocean resource
development, renewable energy transition, green energy, and digital
technologies. Laboratories are already being set up in the region for students
to conduct research that will benefit business and provide the students with
valuable practical experience and the opportunity to secure gainful employment
upon graduation.
More than 2 million
square meters of modern residential facilities and public space have been
planned for the agglomeration in the coming years. The project will help keep
young people in the region and make it more attractive to highly qualified
specialists from other Russian regions seeking a place to work and live.
Information about the
OstroVa Youth Forum, the Sakhalin Education Centre, the Archipelago 2024
Education Intensive, and the Career Navigator platform will be on display at
the pavilion. Visitors will learn more about how to secure their future with a
job in a highly sought-after profession with a top enterprise in Sakhalin
Region.
Exposition creators
will also offer visitors a chance to learn more about the region’s largest
enterprises, Sakhalin Energy, Aurora Airlines, the East Mining Company, and
Hydrostroy, and learn more about new tourist routes to unusual industrial
facilities. The ‘Working Day Starts Here: Career and Tourism’ zone will treat
visitors to VR business tours. Schoolchildren can go on virtual excursions to a
‘Coal Mine’ and ‘The Port of Shakhtersk’. The pavilion will also unveil a new
tourist route to the islands of Shumshu and Paramushir.
The cultural component
of the exposition consists of 200 paintings by Sakhalin artists presented
digitally and performances by the students of the region’s Larisa Dolina Music
Academy.
The 9th
Eastern Economic Forum is being held at the Far Eastern Federal University
campus in Vladivostok on 3–6 September, during which the ‘Far East Street’
exhibition will be open exclusively to Forum participants. It will open to the
general public on 7 and 8 September. The EEF is organized by the Roscongress Foundation.
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03 September 2024
Creating a comfortable urban environment in municipalities: development vectors
Programmes aimed at creating a comfortable urban environment are actively being implemented across Russia. The key role in this work is played by businesses and civil society, and the growing activity of the youth is increasingly influencing these efforts. However, large-scale projects aimed at transforming cities are impossible without a comprehensive approach to infrastructure development and strong ties between municipalities and development institutions. These conclusions were drawn by participants in the session entitled Creating a Comfortable Urban Environment in Municipalities: Development Vectors, held as part of the Eastern Economic Forum.
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VСIOM and the Roscongress Foundation presented the results of a survey of participants in the Eastern Economic Forum 2024
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