Irkutsk will become a millionaire city

The Governor of the Irkutsk Region Alexander Tishanin promises to connect Irkutsk, Angarsk and Shelekhov with a transport network, build a new airport between them and place the regional administration building, they write Vedomosti on Monday.

The project of the association Tishanin presented in Moscow at the All -Russian Conference "Strategy for Regional Development of Russia". “It is not worth the task of making one of three cities one: the legal status of Irkutsk, Angarsk, Shelekhov will not change,” Tishanin explained. “I would like to combine settlements due to the development of transport infrastructure - to build roads, a high -speed tram line so that people can move from the city to the city twice as soon as possible.”

The pendulum migration is tens of thousands of people, he said. And the international airport, business centers, the industrial special economic zone located in the center of agglomeration will attract investors, Tishanin is sure.

Moscow is ready to finance the bypass road around Irkutsk, in July 2006 the Irkutsk region and the Ministry of Transport signed an agreement on the construction of a new airport 36 kilometers from Irkutsk, it will end in 2010-2011.

In the spring - for government hearings - the development strategy and the territorial planning scheme of the region, taking into account the agglomeration, will be ready, the governor promises, but under the regional administration there is already a trusteeship, which included business representatives, a fund was created. Funds from it will go to projects of residential and commercial real estate, infrastructure, their construction will also finance the business.