Sergei Sobyanin: Moscow remains Russia’s high-tech center

Industry is one of Moscow’s rapidly developing sectors. The city is actively reorganizing and repurposing industrial areas, creating numerous accessible jobs not only in the city center but also on the periphery. Sergei Sobyanin shared this in his annual report on the results of the Moscow Government’s work.

“Moscow remains the largest center of high-tech industry in Russia. Although, of course, not so long ago there were great doubts about this, when dozens of enterprises were closing down or relocating to other regions. Over the past five years, this sector has not only avoided stagnation but has actually grown 2.5 times. The information technology and telecommunications sectors, tourism, and creative industries are also rapidly growing, creating thousands of new jobs each year,” Sergei Sobyanin stated.

A specialized infrastructure has been created for innovative and high-tech companies, which includes the special economic zone “Technopolis Moscow,” 48 technoparks, and the Moscow Innovation Cluster.

 “We are currently working on implementing several industry and innovation development mega-projects, including the formation of the largest pharmaceutical production cluster in Russia, the development of a federal center for unmanned aerial systems, the creation of new clusters in photonics, quantum technology, and microelectronics, as well as further development of the innovative centers “Skolkovo” and “Vorobyovy Gory,” shared Sergei Sobyanin.

New economic centers will emerge in areas such as the former industrial zone “Southern Port” in Pechatniki, the former Mikoyan Plant on Leningradsky Prospekt, the ZIL Technopark, the coastal territory from the Northern River Station to the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD), the area of the Moscow city railway station “Nizhegorodskaya,” the future national space center, and the new largest technopark, along with the Big City project.

On top of that, such centers are emerging in the premises of the special economic zone Technopolis Moscow. These include “Pechatniki” — a center for high-tech, automobile manufacturing, and electric vehicle production; the Rudnevo Industrial Park that houses the federal center for unmanned aerial systems, as well as a pharmaceutical cluster and a cluster for photonics and microelectronics in Alabushevo.

Several large centers are also planned to open in TiNAO. These include the City Center of New Moscow, the administrative and business center in Kommunarka, along with a creative cluster — a film park with an educational campus. Moreover, construction, food, and automobile clusters are also planned to be constructed.

In total, at least 900 thousand jobs are expected to be created in these new economic centers.