Murmansk Region is the flagship of Arctic development! Murmansk region located on Kola Peninsula and it takes only about two hours to fly there from Moscow and it makes Murmansk the most affordable and fastest opportunity to watch whales and the northern lights, to be beyond the Arctic circle, in a 100% Arctic region. The Northern Fleet and the world's only nuclear icebreaker fleet are based in the Murmansk Region. The capital of the region is Murmansk - the largest city in the world beyond the Arctic Circle, the gateway to the Northern Sea Route and the largest ice-free port in the Arctic basin of the country. Murmansk region is a land of untouched nature and developed industry. Our slogan is "To live in the North!".
Avito is a leading Russian IT company and e-commerce platform. Avito has 70 million monthly users engaged in transactions in the Goods, Auto, Jobs, Services, Real Estate and Ready Business segments. Avito Delivery facilitates secure transactions through 75 thousand partner pick-up point.
Avito brings private sellers and buyers together, being one of the most convenient digital platforms to support SMBs and large companies. Avito hosts over 220 million active items. Users add 2 million new ads daily and make about 10 transactions per second.
The company employs more than 8,000 people, including 1,800 engineers and 317 candidates of science. Avito has implemented more than 1,000 self-developed machine learning models.
Avito’s business model is built on socially oriented user behavior. Avito integrates its own charitable mechanisms and supports 18 foundations and organizations. Avito’s mission is to help everyone improve their own lives and the lives of those around them.
The Development Foundation of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra is a regional specialized organization for attracting investment and investor relations, a “one-stop shop” for businesses on issues of entrepreneurship. The Foundation performs the functions of the state fund for industrial development of Ugra.
Its key areas of activity are the development of public-private partnership, support and development of investments, industry, tourism and agricultural cooperation. It also assists local manufacturers in obtaining the “Organic” and “Halal” certification for organic products.
The Development Foundation of Ugra provides soft loans for the development of industrial and tourism infrastructure at 3% per annum for up to 10 years. As of the year end 2023, the Foundation had an investment portfolio of 105 projects totally worth 113 billion rubles.
In 2023, the Ugra Development Foundation was appointed the management company of the Arctic zone and is now in talks with prospective residents. The Development Foundation of Ugra provides full-service support for investment projects in the Nyagan SEZ and the Unity Park Innovation, Science and Technology Center, acts as a flagship for the development of infrastructure for unmanned aerial systems in Ugra.