Omsk is a junction hub of the West and the East, located in the very center of Russia, on the cross of the most important railway, motor, aviation, pipeline and information communications, and also of commodities' flows of the European Union and South-East Asia counties. Such an advantageous location allowed the city not only to form a high industrial potential including enterprises of the mechanical engineering, chemical and petrochemical, food and processing industry, defense and industrial complex, construction industry, but also to develop scientific and production enterprises, developing and using advanced technologies, create stable financial and credit, service systems, maintain the high educational, professional and cultural level of the population. These factors create prerequisites for the further successful development of the city.

The authorities' efforts are aimed at increasing the well-being of Omsk inhabitants. All combination of measures aimed at a stable socio- economic development of the regional center in a medium-term and long -term perspective is subject to this goal, measures on the activation of the investment process being a part of it.

The current normative and legal documents are the basis of the municipal investment policy of the city of Omsk. These are first of all the basic guidelines of the socio-economic development of the city of Omsk till the year 2010, which have been developed in accordance with the Strategy of the socio-economic development of Omsk region till the year 2020 and the Program of the socio-economic development of Omsk region for a medium-term perspective.

The investment strategy of the management of the Administration of the city of Omsk is directed at the creation and maintenance of favorable investment climate, assistance to the development of business and cultural relations with Russian regions and world community. It's not incidentally during a number of years the city of Omsk is characterized as an economically developed, politically and socially stable city.

The whole complex of measures is provided for investors which are directed at the support of their activity including the provision of a preferential treatment of making investments, the optimization of licensing procedures and regulation of property right, tax benefits, investment tax credits and many others.

The program of the support by municipal structures of strategic investors which activity has specific significance for the megapolic development has been developed in the city.

The municipality constantly works at the creation of the system of clear and transparent mutual relations between business and authority. An investment agreement concluded on the basis of an investment tender and an agreement on mutual obligations of the city and an investor are the basis of such mutual understanding.

All necessary information allowing to judge the resource potential, investment climate, priority developments of the city development is contained in the “Investment passport of the city of Omsk”.

Let Omsk become for you the territory of possibilities realization, territory of investments, territory of success!

V.F. Schreider, Mayor of the city of Omsk