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Samara's aerospace cluster produced between 18 and 20 Soyuz 2 launch vehicles in 2025, with every manufacturing slot spoken for across the Federal Space Program, the Defence...
Nizhny Novgorod's machine building cluster closed 2024 with industrial production growth of 4.2 percent, outpacing the national average. Order backlogs at precision engineering...
The numbers look like a growth story. Rostec has committed 45 billion RUB to modernising KAPO, Russia's primary strategic bomber and passenger aircraft production facility....
Yekaterinburg sits at the centre of one of the most consequential industrial contradictions in Russia's manufacturing economy. The Sverdlovsk region's metallurgical enterprises...
The Russian government and Sverdlovsk regional authorities have directed over ₽120 billion into modernising and expanding Yekaterinburg's machine building cluster between 2024...
Yekaterinburg's logistics sector processed over 18,000 freight cars daily through its Sortirovochny classification yard in 2024. Koltsovo Airport handled 78,000 tonnes of cargo...
The numbers look like a growth story. Rostec has committed 45 billion RUB to modernising KAPO, Russia's primary strategic bomber and passenger aircraft production facility....
Kazan's petrochemical cluster contributed RUB 1.87 trillion to Tatarstan's regional GDP in 2024, accounting for 34% of the republic's industrial output. That figure makes the...
Tatarstan's IT sector crossed ₽94 billion in revenue in 2024. Kazan IT Park reported 98% occupancy and broke ground on a third expansion phase. Job postings for IT specialists...
Krasnodar Krai added 450,000 square metres of new warehouse space in 2024 alone. A further 600,000 square metres is under construction for delivery this year. The rail...
Krasnodar Krai commissioned 4.2 million square metres of residential housing in 2024, a 12% year on year increase that cemented its position as Russia's third largest...
Krasnodar Krai produced 19.4 million tonnes of grain and 3.2 million tonnes of sunflower seeds in the 2024 harvest cycle. It accounts for roughly 14% of Russia's national grain...
Moscow's information technology sector generated 2.3 trillion rubles in revenue in 2024. That figure represents 40% of Russia's total IT output from a city that holds 9% of its...
Moscow's major banks raised financial sector wages by 18.4% in a single year through Q3 2024. That figure would normally signal a booming market pulling in talent from every...
Moscow's e commerce sector generated an estimated RUB 3.2 trillion in gross merchandise value in 2024. That figure represented approximately 35 to 40 percent of Russia's total...
Nizhny Novgorod's machine building cluster closed 2024 with industrial production growth of 4.2 percent, outpacing the national average. Order backlogs at precision engineering...
Nizhny Novgorod handled 12.4 million tonnes of river cargo in 2024, maintained a ship repair backlog stretching months into the future, and saw federal infrastructure...
Nizhny Novgorod's commercial vehicle cluster produced between 85,000 and 90,000 vehicles through 2025, anchored by GAZ Group's GAZelle Next platform and Ural truck lines. The...
Novosibirsk's scientific instrumentation and electronics sector entered 2026 with a paradox that no amount of federal funding can resolve on its own. State procurement for...
The Russian federal government has increased budget allocations for Novosibirsk rail modernisation by 240% since 2022. Container dwell times at the Inskaya classification yard...
Novosibirsk's IT cluster generated ₽48.3 billion in revenue through Academpark alone in 2024, a 12% increase on the prior year. The sector employs over 42,000 specialists....
The numbers tell two contradictory stories. St Petersburg's three major shipyards entered 2026 with order books stretching to 2030: twelve major combatants, six nuclear...
The Port of St Petersburg handled roughly 40% of Russia's Baltic Sea cargo turnover through 2023. Container throughput dropped 28.4% in 2022 after Maersk, MSC, and CMA CGM...
Saint Petersburg's IT sector recorded 42,000 active vacancies at the close of 2024, a 28% increase year on year. At the same time, 18% of the city's IT professionals reported...
Samara's aerospace cluster produced between 18 and 20 Soyuz 2 launch vehicles in 2025, with every manufacturing slot spoken for across the Federal Space Program, the Defence...
Samara's river port complex handled 4.2 million tonnes of cargo in 2023. Federal investment has rebuilt berths, expanded grain storage to 3.5 million tonnes of annual capacity,...
Samara Oblast processed approximately 25 to 27 million tonnes of crude oil in 2024 across its major refineries. Rosneft has committed 67 billion roubles to modernising those...
Yekaterinburg sits at the centre of one of the most consequential industrial contradictions in Russia's manufacturing economy. The Sverdlovsk region's metallurgical enterprises...
The Russian government and Sverdlovsk regional authorities have directed over ₽120 billion into modernising and expanding Yekaterinburg's machine building cluster between 2024...
Yekaterinburg's logistics sector processed over 18,000 freight cars daily through its Sortirovochny classification yard in 2024. Koltsovo Airport handled 78,000 tonnes of cargo...
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