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Founded: 1136
Acting Governor: Deputy Agriculture Minister Sergei Mitin
Former governor Mikhail Mikhailovich Prusak (re-elected to a third term September 7, 2003) resigned 3rd August 2007, following criticism from Presidential Envoy to the North West Federal District Ilya Klebanov, who in June 2007 spoke of the region's "criminal environment" where "Extortion, murder, arson and raiding" were common in business competition.
Federation Council Representatives: Gennady Eduardovich Burbulis (executive, term expires September 2008); Mikhail Mikhailovich Sorokin (legislative, term expires October 2006)
Duma deputy: Alexander Nikolayevich Filippov (Novgorod district)(United Russia)
Population: 694,700 (2002 census)
Capital: Veliky Novgorod (population 217,200), 606 km from Moscow
Federal district: Northwestern
Economic region: Northwest
Time zone: Moscow, GMT +3, EST +8
Geography: Novgorod Region is located in northwest Russia between Pskov, Tver, Leningrad, and Vologda regions. The region's topography consists of low hilly plains and a large number of lakes. Lake Ilmen is located in the western part of the region and the Valdai Hills rise in the eastern part.
Urban population: 70%, Rural population: 30%
Economy: Novgorod Region is noted for its science- and labor-intensive sectors, particularly the chemical and forest industries. The engineering and metalworking, electronics, chemical, forest, woodworking, and pulp and paper industries produce nearly half of the region's marketable commodities. Because of its long history, Novgorod is also a center of both Russian and international tourism.
Loan investment in the Novgorod Region will grow 22.5% year-on-year in 2007, according to an economic forecast drafted by the regional government. The Novgorod division of Sberbank, Slavyanbank and Novobank (Novgorod), branches of Uralsib, Promsvyazbank, the Baltic Bank and Rosselkhozbank are providing funds for investment. As part of the national project on affordable housing for Russian citizens, Sberbank’s Novgorod division is opening three-year credit lines to finance the construction of communal infrastructure. Together with the Novgorod branch of Rosselkhozbank, it will carry out investment projects to build and modernise animal husbandry farms (to the sum of Rbs150 mln, or $5.68 mln) and provide loans to individual household plots as part of the national project on developing agriculture. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will be involved in these projects, which will make loans more easily accessible to small businesses.
Official website: http://region.adm.nov.ru
Contact Information
Governor
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prusak
1 Sofiyskaya ploshad
Veliky Novgorod 173005
Tel.: +7 (816 22) 7 47 79
Fax: +7 (8162) 13 22 87; 13 13 30
Email: niac@niac.ru
Press service contact
Natalya Alexandrovna Izmailova
Tel.: +7 (8162) 13 13 37
Chairman of the Duma
Anatoly Alexandrovich Boytsev
1 Sofiyskaya ploshad
Veliky Novgorod 173005
Tel.: +7 (816 22) 7 54 60; 13 12 36; 13 25 14
Fax: +7 (8162) 13 28 14
Email: pred@niac.ru
Representative to the Government of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Nikolayevich Podoprigora
3 Malaya Dmitrovka Ulitsa, entrance 3, office 220
Moscow 103795
Tel/Fax: +7 (095) 299 40 04
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