The Ministry of Regional Development is the developer and executive in charge of the state programme. Its participants are: the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Healthcare , the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Federal Road Agency, the Ministry of Energy, the Federal Agency for Tourism, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Sport, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Protection and Welfare, the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Federal Protective Service, the Federal Medical-Biological Agency, the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, the Federal Agency for Air Transport, the Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport, the Federal Agency for the Development of the State Border Facilities, the Federal Agency for Rail Transport, the Federal Tariff Service, the Federal Migration Service, the Federal Tax Service, and the Federal Customs Service.
The state programme is aimed at facilitating comprehensive socio-economic development of the Kaliningrad Region, enhancing the region’s investment attractiveness, promoting economic growth priorities, creating new industries and developing new industrial clusters and tourism.
The state programme includes the following three sub-programmes:
Developing Priority Economic Sectors in the Kaliningrad Region;
Developing the Kaliningrad Region as a Cultural and Tourist Centre;
Ensuring the implementation of the State Programme of the Russian Federation, Socio-Economic Development of the Kaliningrad Region until 2020.
The aim of the state programme is to ensure the sustained socio-economic development of the Kaliningrad Region.
It is proposed that this aim should be achieved by addressing the following tasks:
creating the region’s backbone infrastructure;
developing competitive economic sectors;
improving living standards and quality of life;
promoting tourism and popular mobility.
The expected results of the state programme are as follows: dynamic socio-economic development of the Kaliningrad Region, based on the priority development of competitive sectors of the economy;
modernisation of the utilities, transport and social infrastructure;
emergence of a multi-mode transport and logistical zone;
development of a scientific and educational system of the Kaliningrad Region on the basis of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University;
improvement of the investment climate;
creation of new economic development centres and industrial zones , including efficient agro-industrial facilities;
increase in tax and non-tax revenues of the consolidated budget of the Kaliningrad Region;
development of the region’s recreation potential.
The state programme is scheduled to be implemented from 2013 to 2020.
Achievement of the goals and aims of the state programme will ensure the dynamic socio-economic development of the Kaliningrad Region, make it possible to modernise the region’s utilities, transport and social infrastructure, promote the development of priority economic sectors and improve the standards of living.