UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 4, 2018. The agreement on the construction of a medical cluster in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy was signed on July 3, 2018, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports.

The agreement was signed by all the key participants in the unique project, including RSG-Akademicheskoye’s Director-General Viktor Krivosheyin, Rector of Ural State Medical Academy Olga Kovtun, acting head of Maternity & Neonatology Research Institute Galina Malgina, and Executive Director of the non-profit Ural Biomedical Cluster Vladimir Vlasov. Additionally, heads of Sverdlovsk Region’s two largest clinics — Igor Trofimov (who runs Sverdlovsk Region Clinic 1) and Oleg Averyanov (head of Sverdlovsk Region Children’s Clinic 1) — also signed the paper.

‘The agreement that was signed today opens a new page in the history of this medical cluster. The paper sets forth all the goals of the project in question and all the parties’ mutual obligations. The idea is to ensure the three key things: better and more readily available hi tech healthcare services; a boost in medical research and venture production; and providing much better quality training for the healthcare workers,’ the press service says.