The Russian government will approve the Tomsk campus roadmap in March

TOMSK, Mar 15 – RIA Tomsk. A roadmap of the construction of the Tomsk inter-university campus has been developed and sent for approval to the government of the Russian Federation; the document will be publicly presented by April 1, 2021, Deputy Governor for Economy Andrey Antonov told RIA Tomsk on Monday.

Earlier it was reported that in 2019 the regional administration, VEB.RF and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education agreed on the implementation in Tomsk of a pilot project for the construction of an inter-university campus for 20 thousand students. The Tomsk authorities were going to present a roadmap to realize a large-scale project that would cost about 15 billion rubles in February 2021. The campus will be located on the left bank of the Tom river near Tomsk.

"Until April 1, we are waiting for the approval of the roadmap by the government of the Russian Federation. The consideration period has been extended due to the fact that it is necessary to work out additionally with the ministries. Work is underway, and we hope that we will see this roadmap by April 1," Antonov said.

It was also reported that, along with the architectural concept of the campus, the project roadmap will be presented for public discussion in the spring of 2021. The authorities have repeatedly stressed that the campus is a key project for the Tomsk region, with which it can declare itself at the federal level and attract billions of rubles in investments.

It was planned that the Tomsk campus is not just a set of dormitories. It should also include buildings for classes, joint laboratories in which the scientific and educational complex, academic institutions, IT companies, state corporations, and other infrastructure facilities will participate.

The project is planned to be implemented in the format of a public-private partnership. In February 2021, after its presentation at the Gaidar Forum, the Granit group of companies (formerly called SPb-Granit) announced its interest in building the campus, which in 2014-2019 carried out the first stage of reconstruction of the Ushaika embankment near the Big Concert Hall of the Tomsk Philharmonic.