Gil Dankner who signed yesterday the agreement between the Government of the Autonomous Okrug and Dankner Group about development of gas chemical enterprises, informed that in the town of Pyt-Yakh the land was allocated to construct the plant, to construct a building, the preparation is being done to create the joint venture. He thanked Governor for the active support of the company’s activities in Ugra,

There were also discussed prospects of the cooperation with the bodies of healthcare of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra and Ugra Research Institute of Information Technologies in the field of telemedicine development, information support to medical institutions, creation of new medical centers. Governor informed that he had signed the decree about sending the first group of Ugra medical workers to Israel for the internship. He considers the cooperation of two countries in this sphere be useful for the implementation of the priority national project “Healthcare”.

Gil Dankner reminded about the old idea to hold the cultural presentation of the Autonomous Okrug in Israel and expressed hope that it would come true.

Today in the framework of the III International Investment Forum Alexander Filipenko discussed the schedule of the activities of the Foreign Investments Consultative Council with the member of the Unicredit Group Directors’ Board Willy Hemetsberger.

Representatives of the bank “Austria creditanschalt”, and Moscow International Bank participated at the meeting.

There were discussed the issues of the participation of the organizations which join the trans-European bank system in investing the project of the Pre-Polar Urals exploration, development of the construction industry in the Okrug and mortgage crediting of the housing program including via the unit investment trusts and also in development of tourism and balneology.

Governor of Ugra told about long-term agreements, concluded by the Autonomous Okrug with the World Bank and European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, about prospects of the Okrug economy diversification.

At the meeting it was made a decision to hold the presentation of Ugra in West Europe in the 2-nd quarter of 2007. The meeting of the European investors and leaders of the Autonomous Okrug is expected to be held in the Austrian capital – Vienna.

The meeting was chaired by the First Deputy Chair of the RF Government Dmitri Medvedev in Yekaterinburg.

Alexander Filipenko informed about the general demographic indicators in the Autonomous Okrug, and said that the positive dynamics was connected with the population’s natural increase. At the beginning of November the population’s natural increase in Ugra was 8873 people – what is by 7,4 % higher than last year. It caused the necessity to solve the housing problem. Besides, in the Okrug there are difficulties with the great number of old and shabby houses. In Governor’s opinion such peculiarities of the real estate market make Ugra different from other regions.

Another peculiarity of the implementation of the national project “Available and comfortable housing to citizens of Russia” in the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug is the integrated approach to solving the goal. While its implementation it was made a decision not to divide two Okrug big programs, connected with improvement of housing conditions for Ugra people and modernization of the housing and communal services system. The program, connected with modernization of the housing and communal services system, was launched before the national project realization. “If there are no enough high-quality mechanisms of heat-, water-supply, energy supply and many other things, it is impossible to achieve good tempos of the housing construction”, - said the head of the region.

“For the whole period of the implementation of the national project “Available and comfortable housing to citizens of Russia” in Ugra it will be put into operation about 6 million sq.m of housing”, - said Alexander Filipenko. Such tempos of construction will allow to provide over 111 ths. people with housing by 2010. 180 billion rubles are expected to be spent for these purposes, including 67 billion rubles from the Okrug budget.

This year 940 ths. sq/m of housing are expected to be put into operation in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. For comparison, last year it was constructed about 580 ths. sq.m. Next year we plan to construct 1-1,1 million sq.m of housing. “Then 1 sq.m of housing will come to each inhabitant of the Autonomous Okrug”, - said Governor.

The mortgage crediting in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug made a great progress this year. Alexander Filipenko said that since the beginning of 2006 over 4,3 ths. credit agreements for purchasing housing have been concluded in the region and over 10,7 ths. Ugra people have become the participants of the sub-program. Such tempos of mortgage loans spreading to improve the housing conditions are stipulated by active work of the Okrug mortgage agency which was founded less than one year ago.

Having told about the prospects and success in the realization of the full-scale project in housing construction, Governor of Ugra mentioned the dependence of the regional construction market. “Today it is provided by internal resources at the expense of construction materials production by 25 % not more”, - he informed.

The transfer to production of construction materials which would satisfy the modern requirements, caused launching new facilities. This spring in the Autonomous Okrug it was launched the implementation of the program of small wooden houses by the timber company “Koda Les”. The project is based on the experience of European countries – Finland and Germany. It allowed to apply the technology of wooden houses constructive elements production. Three panel houses with the application of new technologies were erected in Ugra. Several big investment projects were in the stage of development. One of them expects the construction of 300 houses in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk.