The head of Kalibr technopark Kristina Zarubina visited the high-tech technopark of the Sverdlovsk region. During the visit, Kristina Zarubina and Vitaly Balanchuk, Head of the Technopark Engineering Center, discussed the possibilities for cooperation between innovation centers, shared their experience in supporting the development of their residents, holding events and interacting with other structures that support innovative companies.

Cooperation will continue, and perhaps the exchange of innovative ideas and the development of the two regions will reach a new level.

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Technopark of high technologies "Universitetsky" is a technopark located in Yekaterinburg. It is a platform for high-tech innovative companies.

In the framework of the program “Establishment of Technoparks in the Sphere of High Technologies in the Russian Federation”, the project to create the Technopark of High Technologies of the Sverdlovsk Region “University” dated by August 2014 was included in the federal investment program for 2014 and the planned period 2015-2016. The federal budget allocated more than 651 million rubles, the budget of the Sverdlovsk region is still about 845 million rubles. The total cost of the first phase of construction was about 1.5 billion rubles (1 billion rubles is the cost of the building itself, about 0.5 billion rubles is the cost of building the engineering infrastructure (water supply, drainage, electricity, heat, communication networks)). On December 30, 2014, Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of Russia Nikolay Nikiforov and Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Yevgeny Kuyvashev opened solemnly a technology park.

Currently, more than 70 companies are located there. Tenants unites more than 1,000 jobs, since 2015, more than 623 million rubles in taxes have been paid on an accrual basis.