OREANDA-NEWS. December 30, 2009. In order to develop basic approaches to working out comprehensive innovative plans of developing mono-towns, a workshop-conference with administrators of mono-profile populated areas of the Khabarovsk region and the Primorasky Territory was held on December 26-27, 2009 in the city of Khabarovsk.

The Working Group on Modernizing Mono-Towns under the Governmental Commission on Enhancing the Russian Economy’s Sustainable Development and State Corporation ‘Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)’ acted as the organizers of the event.

The workshop’s participants discussed basic principles of working out a strategy of developing mono-towns as well as the Nizhny Tagil Administration’s experience in developing a comprehensive innovative plan of the city’s development. After the said issues were presented and discussed, recommendations for administrators of mono-profile towns were formulated. The workshop’s participants heard out the reports by the heads of municipal entities and discussed strong and weak points of mono-towns and mono-settlements, their potential and possible mechanisms for implementing plans of development.

In attendance of the event were Head of the Working Group on Modernizing Mono-Towns under the Government Commission on Enhancing the Russian Economy’s Sustainable Development, Vnesheconombank Deputy Chairman Irina Makieva, Russia’s Regional Development Deputy Minister Yury Osintsev, representatives of the Sverdlov region, the Federal Project Financing Center and the expert community as well as administrators of mono-profile populated areas of the Khabarovsk region and the Primorsky Territory.

The workshop’s participants paid a working visit to the mono settlement of Svetlogorje in the course of which representatives of the Working Group visited the settlement’ township-forming enterprises, a secondary school and an orphanage. They also attended a meeting chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. They discussed problems faced by this mono profile settlement and potential lines of its further development.

Vnesheconombank’s Representative Office in the city of Khabarovsk was responsible for providing organizational and technical support for the workshop.