March 22, 2013. In the first two months of 2013, Sverdlovsk Region’s primary economic indicators have kept on growing on a year earlier, Governor Evgeny Kuivashev said on March 21 during a seminar/meeting with the local mayors, Sverdlovsk Region Government’s press service reports.

The Governor said that the first two months of the year were long enough to trace the trend.

‘The industrial production index went up by nearly 5% in January and February 2013 against January and February 2012. The agricultural production index rose by a little more than 4% against the comparable prices of January 2012,’ Kuivashev said.