Favourable geographical location

• Borders with the EU
• Located 600 km away from Moscow
• Borders with Saint Petersburg, one of the largest
industrial centres in Russia
• Access to the Baltic Sea

Effective measures of support
for investors

• Investors support under “one-stop-shop”
principle and “360°” system
• End-to-end solution for tax benefits
• Financing of investment projects through
the regional Entrepreneurship Support Fund

Access to human resources

• Ability to attract highly qualified specialists
from Saint Petersburg
• Low cost of human resources (48,271 rubles
(660 USD) – the average salary in 2020,
which is 29.4% lower than in Saint Petersburg)

Available infrastructure

• Wide choice of available investment sites,
greenfield and brownfield (289 available sites)
• Low cost of electricity supply
• Low rental rate for industrial areas
• Low cost of land lease

Large transport and logistics hub
• Location at the junction of international
transport corridors
• Ports of Leningrad region provide 21% of the
export and import cargo turnover of the country
• The largest port – Ust-Luga (cargo turnover
in 2020: 102.6 million tons of cargo –
1st place among all ports in the Baltic basin)

Second largest consumer market in Russia
• The total population of Leningrad region
and Saint Petersburg is about 7.3 million people
(5% of the population in Russia)
• High consumer demand – retail trade turnover
in the region and in the city in 2020 amounted
to 1,995.9 billion rubles (4.1% higher than in 2019)