During the implementation of the city development program, 22 billion rubles were spent

The Sochi administration published a report on the implementation of a targeted city development program with a total investment of 22 billion rubles. The municipal leadership recognized the goals of the program as fulfilled: the city has created conditions for the formation of a world-class mountain resort. Further prospects for its development will depend on the growth of tourist flows and the possibility of reducing the costs of maintaining Olympic facilities, experts believe.

Further prospects for the development of Sochi are associated with an increase in tourist flow and a reduction in the costs of maintaining Olympic facilities.
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The head of Sochi, Anatoly Pakhomov, approved the report on the implementation of the city target program “Ensuring the construction of Olympic facilities and the development of the city as a mountain climatic resort for 2011–2013”, the document was published on the official website of the resort city administration. The total amount of funding for the target program exceeds 22 billion rubles, of which 19 billion rubles. allocated from the federal budget.

“In the entire modern history of the Olympics, none of the capitals of the Games had such weak starting positions in terms of infrastructure, human capital, and management potential that existed in Sochi at the time of the launch of the preparation project for the Games,” note the authors of the report, emphasizing that the problems , inherent in Sochi, are typical for most Russian cities, which experience restrictions in development, since the urban infrastructure cannot provide Russians with an adequate quality of life. In this situation, the Olympic project became a driver of growth for Sochi: “The requirements of the IOC and the obligations of Russia have set new standards for urbanism, where urban infrastructure should be assessed comprehensively from the point of view of the comfort of living and stay of guests,” the report says.

From the point of view of the city authorities responsible for the development of funds for the development of the city, the goals of the program have been successfully achieved: the engineering, transport and social infrastructure of Sochi has received global development, which has created the conditions for the formation of a world-class mountain resort; in addition, a new image of the city has been formed, the quality of residence of Sochi residents. In particular, in preparation for the Games, 462 apartment buildings were renovated, three new medical and four educational institutions were put into operation (hospitals, schools, kindergartens in the Adler region), and 90 ambulances were purchased.” Also in Sochi, roads with a total length of 68 km were repaired, which made it possible to double the intensity of cargo transportation. During the preparation for the Games, ten boiler houses, 30 km of water supply networks, 20 km of electricity supply networks were put into operation, and 208 thousand square meters were landscaped. m of adjacent areas, pedestrian areas and sidewalks for 43 km. 6.5 thousand objects were brought to a single architectural appearance.

According to the report of the Sochi administration, a number of target indicators during implementation were adjusted downward (the length of the reconstructed heat supply networks, roads, etc.). Planned indicators for increasing the volume of certain types of medical care (outpatient, emergency) were not achieved due to personnel problems.

According to experts, the Olympic project has created an infrastructure basis for the future development of Sochi. Natalya Zubarevich, director of the regional program of the Independent Institute of Social Policy, names the massive high-rise development of the center of Sochi as a negative consequence of the Olympic project, which, from her point of view, has worsened the urban environment of the resort. “Improving the quality of life of city residents is directly related to the availability of jobs and budgetary security, but there is no clarity on these issues yet - based on the first post-Olympic season, it is difficult to judge whether the seasonality of the resort has been overcome; it is also unclear how the funds will be used to maintain the Olympic facilities and won’t this put a burden on the local budget,” says Natalya Zubarevich. Moisey Furshchik, managing partner of the Financial and Organizational Consulting (FOK) company, notes that in order to transform Sochi into a high-class resort, the city requires additional landscaping, an improvement in the level of service and a competent marketing policy.

Anna Perova, Krasnodar

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