Sergei Sobyanin describes the new industrial enterprises opening in Moscow
Since 2011, 290 industrial facilities with a total area of about three million square meters have been built in the capital, including more than 270,000 square meters in 2024 alone. Sergei Sobyanin describes how Moscow’s industrial sector is developing, in his blog.
“Moscow’s industry is experiencing a rebirth. Dozens of new clean and high-tech industries open in the city every year. Businesses are returning to Moscow because the city offers conditions that are difficult to find elsewhere. The capital has the best, most highly qualified personnel. Yes, they need to be paid well, but the wage costs are recouped by high labor productivity. We have a huge sales market and excellent opportunities for establishing connections based on mutual cooperation,” wrote Sergey Sobyanin.
The Moscow City Government offers tax incentives to industrial enterprises, concludes offset contracts and provides other preferences that also stimulate the creation of new production facilities.
In many cases, the shortage of appropriate facilities poses a serious difficulty. Historical buildings that were used by giant industrial enterprises in the pre-revolutionary and Soviet periods are usually not suitable for modern production. In most cases, it is easier to convert them into offices and public spaces. And new production facilities need to be located in modern workshops.
To address this problem, the city has given the green light to industrial construction projects. Wherever possible, investors have been exempted from taxes and state fees in relation to such projects, and in many cases land can be obtained without a bidding process, for the nominal fee of one ruble. Often the Moscow City Government itself acts as a developer of new production facilities.
Significant production sites
Thanks to the city program to stimulate the creation of workplaces in Zelenograd, three buildings with a total area of 53,500 square meters have been commissioned in the Alabushevo Technopark. The buildings were designed to be easily remodeled to meet the needs of a particular manufacturer. Each building consists of two parts — a production building and a three-story office building. The office part has everything required in a modern, comfortable workplace: offices, meeting rooms, canteens, recreation areas and other useful rooms.
Today, the Alabushevo Technopark produces medical products, develops innovative veterinary drugs, and manufactures components for the oil and gas sector. 1,200 jobs have been created.
In Golyanovo, in the east of Moscow, MEL JSC has implemented a large-scale investment project to create a production facility for lifting and transportation equipment. For this purpose, the city provided the company with almost a hectare of land without a bidding process. It has already started production of elevators with a lifting capacity of up to five thousand kilograms, as well as transformer substations, low-voltage equipment and other products, providing jobs for 85 people.
Rudnevo Industrial Park in the Kosino-Ukhtomsky district, part of the Moscow Technopolis special economic zone (SEZ) has increased its area, gaining more than 48,000 square meters.
The production facility and the associated administrative and utility buildings will house the main and auxiliary production lines, as well as a logistics area. Modern technologies and materials were used in the construction of the facility, which allowed the project to be realized in a short time. Thanks to this, the manufacturer of metal parts and assemblies for aircraft wing assembly will be able to increase its capacity and create more jobs.
In January this year, a 17,600 square meter flight test facility for unmanned aircraft systems was put into operation in Rudnevo. It includes an administrative and technical module with a command and control center, an aviation training center, a flight hangar, a storage area for aircraft and a landing area.
Production space at the Pechatniki site of the Moscow Technopolis SEZ has increased by 34,000 square meters The first floor of the new building will house a metalworking shop, a welding station area, and administrative and living quarters for the staff. On the second floor will be storage space for raw materials and finished products, technical communications and living quarters for employees of enterprises.
“The development of industrial and manufacturing infrastructure continues. At the moment 71 more facilities with a total area of more than 844.6 thousand square meters are under construction. We expect that this year at least three more modern production complexes will begin operation,” noted Sergei Sobyanin.
An innovative food production complex will open in the Orlovo industrial zone in Novo Peredelkino, which will produce a wide range of products, including beverages. A modern enterprise for the production of finished metal products will start operating in the Molzhaninovsky district. A plant for the production of electronic components and equipment for radio, television and telecommunications will appear in the Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo district.
New production facilities strengthen the capital’s industrial potential and create thousands of jobs.