V. Abramchenko offered to divide Siberia into industry clusters

Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko proposed to divide Siberia into industry clusters. Earlier, Minister of Defense Shoygu announced the need to build there 3-5 scientific and industrial centers.
Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko, Supervisor of the Siberian Federal District in the government, proposed dividing it into industry clusters, in accordance with the minutes of the meeting devoted to the strategic session on the issues of accelerated social and economic development of the Siberian Federal District, a copy of which was reviewed by RBC. Deputy Prime Minister's representative Marta Galicheva confirmed the authenticity of the document.
Abramchenko instructed the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Maxim Reshetnikov, in the process of the session preparation to consider firstly the accelerated development of Siberia through industry clusters in such areas as agriculture, timber and construction materials, oil and gas, coal, coal chemistry, gold and precious metals, aluminum processing, copper and electronics.

Earlier, in the August, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu said at a meeting with scientists from the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences about the need to build 3-5 scientific and industrial centers in Siberia with a population of 300,000 to 1 million people.

Later, the minister clarified that a "Copper and electrical engineering center" can be crwated between Bratsk and Krasnoyarsk. It is also planned to create the "Aluminum Valley" cluster there, which will be engaged in the manufacture of high value-added products for aluminum processing. In Southern Siberia, there are opportunities for the extraction of coking coal, the production of plastics from illiquid raw materials can be created in the Kansk region, and the Forest and Building Materials cluster can be created around Lesosibirsk, Shoygu noted. He emphasized in an interview with RBC that it means “not just creation of new settlements in taiga”, but also concerns the development of Siberian macroregions and the whole country.

“Without new centers of economic growth in Siberia and the Far East, we run the risk of missing an important historical moment,” billionaire Oleg Deripaska wrote on his Telegram channel on December 4. He noted that Asian markets are growing at a cosmic pace, which means that there is a huge demand for Russian goods. In addition, US sanctions, which are imposed “even for the most absurd reasons,” could at any moment even more alienate Russia from Western markets.
Source: forbes.ru