V. Pozgalev, Vologda region Governor: “Problems in Sokol can be solved by joint efforts”

The program will be financed from federal and regional budgets. As a result of its implementation by 2012 about 2 thousand new workplaces must be created, small enterprises’ share must increase in the economy of the city and the share of tumbledown and wrecking housing resources must decrease.
(...) At Sokol’skii PPM (Investlesprom group) a large project “Vologda paper manufacture” is being prepared; it will organize production of up to 600 thousand tons of high quality coated paper per year. Among plans there is also an extension of production capacities at Sokol’skii DOK, being also a part of Investlesprom.
“This program was developed for the purposes of efforts consolidation of both authorities and business. The problems existing in Sokol city can be solved by joint efforts of federal, regional, municipal authorities as well as by city-forming enterprises’ owners. Production development will let to modernize city’s engineering infrastructures, to create new workplaces and finally to form a comfortable environment for population habitation”, - noted Vyatcheslav Pozgalev.
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