M. Mishustin: Good afternoon, Nikolai Olegovich!
The Far East and Arctic Development Corporation celebrated its tenth anniversary last year. You've been with it since its inception, and you've headed it for the past four years. And, of course, you're thoroughly immersed in the tasks it's called upon to carry out. Primarily, this involves attracting private investors to the industries of two major Russian macroregions and participating in the construction of infrastructure (utility networks, communications) for companies so they can establish efficient production, expand capacity, and create more jobs.
To ensure a comfortable business environment for entrepreneurs, the government has created a comprehensive regulatory framework. Residents of the Advanced Development Areas, the Kuril Islands, the Vladivostok Free Port, and the Arctic Special Economic Zone are provided with a comprehensive range of benefits and preferences. These benefits are already being utilized by thousands of companies implementing large-scale projects in the Far East and the Arctic, primarily in high-value-added sectors and industries.
At the President's direction, the international priority development area regime has now been launched for foreign investors. Incidentally, we discussed this mechanism in detail during last year's trip to the Amur Region.
Nikolai Olegovich, please tell us about the corporation's results last year and what's happening now, in the first half of this year.
N. Zapryagaev: Dear Mikhail Vladimirovich! As you've already mentioned, for 11 years now, the corporation's key objective, as set by the Government, has been attracting investment and supporting investment projects in the Far East and the Arctic. To this end, the Government has provided us with unique capabilities and tools. And these truly allow us to approach project support fr om virtually every angle. Currently, we're not solely involved in project financing, but we have a wide range of tools at our disposal.
To achieve this, we operate in nearly 11 regions of the Far East and the Arctic. We can't do without it. We always need to understand and be aware of the company's core values and concerns.
To date, we've been entrusted with just over 4,000 projects. Investors have committed to investing 15 trillion rubles, of which 6.8 trillion rubles have already been invested, and nearly 1,400 investment projects have been implemented across a wide range of industries and scales.
We've transferred 62,000 hectares of land for investment projects. Approximately 300 MW of electrical power has been connected, with another 500 currently underway.
We have industrial parks operating in priority development areas — sites with utilities—in Khabarovsky, Primorsky Regions, Yakutia, and even Chukotka, wh ere “ArcticPromPark” opened last year. In 2026, we will open the new “Kadalinsky” Industrial Park in Transbaikalye.
Last year, we began construction on infrastructure for two new sites: “Zapadnaya” in Primorsky Region and “Rovnoye” in Amur Region—we reported on them to you during your visit to Amur Region. They are located near the Blagoveshchensk-Heihe Bridge. Sites with infrastructure are truly in demand by investors.
In 2025, we received 674 new investment projects, and investors invested a record 1 trillion rubles in projects in the Far East alone. This represents a fifth of the total fixed capital investment in the district, both for 2025 and over the next 10 years.
And we're already seeing returns to the state. According to the Federal Tax Service, tax resident payments amounted to 137 billion rubles for 2025 and 550 billion rubles in total over 10 years. Therefore, the investor support policy that the Government has been consistently pursuing for quite some time now creates opportunities for changing the face of the regions, for development, and for the implementation of new projects. And we don't intend to stop there.