TOMSK, Feb 7 – RIA Tomsk, Karina Sapunova. The amount of financing of scientific and educational complex of the Tomsk region exceeded 25 billion rubles in 2016, the governor Sergey Zhvachkin at the ceremonial meeting devoted to the Day of Russian Science, which is celebrated on February 8, reported on Tuesday.
"Financing only of scientific activity in 2016 amounted to nearly 11 billion rubles. And all scientific and educational complex of Tomsk of the Tomsk region – more than 25 billion", – the governor told.
He noted that development of science also positively affects development of all region. Thanks to this sphere the volume of manufacturing industry in the Tomsk region in recent years grown by 1,6 times, and the budget of the region in four years increased from 27 to 56 billion rubles.
"Thanks to integration of scientists and production workers we increase cooperation of the region with the largest Russian companies. Last year residents of Tomsk delivered to gas workers, oil industry workers, power engineering specialists and petrochemists the equipment already for 6 billion rubles, with your scientific value added", – Zhvachkin noted.He added that on number of scientists per capita the Tomsk region is the leader in Russia, and in the rating of innovative regions of the country is in the fourth place, conceding only to Moscow, St. Petersburg and Tatarstan.