International Development Centre – Snezhinsk
  International Development Centre - Zheleznogorsk

Оzersk is a city with a developed economic structure, where industrial potential is dominated by the city’s main enterprise Mayak. The priority directions of its activities are carrying out defence orders, reprocessing and utilizing spent nuclear fuel, and producing radioactive isotopes. Conversion enterprises are also emerging based on radioactive technologies. Like other nuclear industry enterprises, Mayak is going through a process of reorganization leading to large scale job reductions.At the same time, a new player in the local economy, in the area of small and medium size businesses, is appearing on the scene in Ozersk. The development of the City requires investments, but for that, entrepreneurs need special knowledge and professional support. The City and the city’s main enterprise have already been involved in the CNCP Partnership for several years. Taking account of recent tendencies in the economic development of Ozersk and Mayak, work began on implementing the project “Ozersk Business Development Agency" (BDA) in 2007 in the framework of the Partnership.
The formal opening of BDA-Ozersk took place on 23 October, on the occasion of a visit by a CNCP delegation.
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As a result of collaboration between CNCP, the Siberian Chemical Kombinat (SCK), and the Administration of the Closed City of Seversk, agreement was reached in 2003 on carrying out research into the need for a Business Development Agency (BDA) and preparing a business plan covering the organisation of such a Agency in the City. On the basis of this work, a plan for the project was endorsed in 2004. The principle aim of the project was to create conditions which would help employees of the nuclear industrial complex, which was facing rationalisation in Seversk, to benefit from new opportunities for alternative forms of employment.
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The Zheleznogorsk International Development Centre (IDC), established under the CNCP, proposed to set up an integrated web portal for businesses to provide an improved range of information on the business environment. The web portal will be particularly relevant to Existing businesses who wish to promote their products and services within the City, the oblast and wider a field, and who also need information of local suppliers of goods and services; potential start ups that require a wide range of basic information about starting a business; External investors who need information about the economic, social and business conditions in Zheleznogorsk.
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Project objective is to produce an image for the Closed City of Seversk as a territory attractive for making investments by developing and issuing informational document which provides potential investors with detailed information about the city, its potential and advantages. As well as attracting investments outside of the city for establishing new enterprises and new jobs at existing interprises.
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The City Administration of Snezhinsk, the main City Forming Enterprise the All-Russian Science and Research Institute of Technical Physics (RFNC VNIITF) and the Snezhinsk IDC wish to develop an Strategic Economic Development Plan for the City which sets out how additional job opportunities will be created for former weapons scientists and technicians, the actions that will need to be taken and the resources that would be required.
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