Construction of IT-village in Tatarstan will provide thousands of jobs

3 October 2011, Monday
Vice-premier - minister of info and communications Nikolay Nikiforov believes that IT-village that is being constructed in Tatarstan may become new point of economic growth for republic. Such idea was expressed by him at a briefing in IT-park dedicated to realization of project on creating innovative center “IT-village” in republic.

It is expected that at the beginning overall production volume of resident companies will make no less than 20 bln. roubles. Development of products, technologies and execution of a patent will be accompanied by capitalization of intellectual property and attraction of foreign investments. It enables assessing “production volume” of IT-village in prospect (50-70 bln. roubles per year).

Construction of IT-village will favor organizing 5-10 thousand jobs for local IT-specialists, attracting 10-15 thousand IT-specialists from other Russian regions and will procure work for 20 000 people in service sector.

First construction stage will start in spring 2012. The development process will depend on business activity and may take 5-7 years. The project will be realized on private - public partnership basis.
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