TOMSK, Aug 9 – RIA Tomsk. The scale of the project to build a student campus on Tomsk's left bank is not limited to the idea of developing a scientific and educational complex (SEC), the project will attract major investments to the Tomsk region and increase its development potential, said Oksana Kozlovskaya, speaker of the Legislative Duma.
Earlier it was reported that in July during his visit to Tomsk Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced that the Tomsk region would receive 18 billion rubles for the inter-university campus. In total, the construction project is estimated at 31 billion. Housing for 10,000 students, an engineering center, sports and leisure facilities, and research facilities for major Russian companies are planned for the campus on the left bank of the Tom River.
Not just for scientific and educational complex
On Monday, at a press conference on the results of the Legislative Duma of the Tomsk region of the sixth convocation, its chairman commented on the significance of the campus project.
"To get such a project for implementation in the Tomsk region is not an easy task. I know how much criticism there is around this project now, but I also know which territories along with the Tomsk region fought for this project. If it is implemented here, it will have a great potential for preservation and development of the region," Kozlovskaya said at the press conference held at the RIA Tomsk media center.
According to her, implementation of this project will predetermine "a serious development, first of all, of Tomsk, Tomsk region, higher school and educational system of the region and macroregion - territory of Western and Eastern Siberia".
"I hope that this project will really take place in the Tomsk region and give serious development also to the left bank, this project will touch upon road construction, housing construction, social infrastructure, roadside services. The scope of this project is not limited by the implementation of the idea, which we are all talking about – development of the scientific and educational complex (SEC), it will require very serious development of the region," the chairman of the Duma said.
She explained that the campus is not only a social and budgetary object, but also a major commercial project, given that 18 billion rubles for its implementation has been promised by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, while the remaining resources will come from private investors.
New roads and energy resources
The speaker also reminded that the region already has an example when the appearance of a large facility has produced significant integrated results - we are talking about the construction in Tomsk of one of the six technical innovation zones of the Russian Federation - the Special Economic Zone (SEZ), opened in 2006.
"We are often skeptical about the project of SEZ, but apart from creating conditions for the development of innovative companies and innovative business, which we got with the advent of the Special Economic Zone, such projects play a key role in the development of the region's infrastructure," Kozlovskaya noted.
She recalled that the SEZ project made it possible to modernize, to develop road networks in the area of Akademgorodok and to obtain additional capacities for energy resources.
The chairman of the regional Duma also added that the student campus is a larger and more ambitious project than the SEZ.
On results and specifics
Summing up the results of the VI convocation of the Legislative Duma of the Tomsk region, Kozlovskaya told journalists that a special feature of this convocation was the implementation of major national projects, which boosted the development of all constituent entities of the Russian Federation, including our region. Over the past five years, the amount of funding from the federal budget has increased sharply.
"The implementation of such projects as the construction of pre-schools, building schools, building and overhauling roads - all this required a special attitude from the deputy corps. We held a lot of meetings of committees, deputy commissions," the speaker explained.
She noted that the program, concerning the repair of roads within the municipalities, proved its efficiency in solving the urgent problems of the inhabitants of the region's districts. She also highlighted the Clean Water Program, under which 150 water purification plants have been installed in the region.
Deputies had reviewed more than 3,000 legal documents, including 1,300 draft federal laws and some 839 regional laws, 30% of which were considered for the first time.
