АК&М Rating Agency, supported by the Soviet of the Federation, did a research on the Russian Federation’s constituent entities’ credit solvency.

Sverdlovsk Region was Russia’s No.5 in terms of credit solvency based on its financial performance, only outstripped by Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Perm Territory, and Krasnoyarsk Territory. As for its credit solvency based on its economic performance, the region was given the 8th best position. Then, the agency rated Sverdlovsk Region No.9 in terms of integrated level of relative credit solvency in 2007 (compared with the fifth position in 2006).

The region’s revenues (excluding the financial support coming from the other budgets) came to 87,513.43 million RUR, thus securing Sverdlovsk Region the sixth position in the rating, after Moscow, Moscow Region, Saint Petersburg, Khanty-Mansiyskiy Autonomous Region, and Tyumen Region.

Then, Sverdlovsk Region was rated Russia’s No. 39 in terms of the share of profit-making enterprises in the region’s economy (74.9% of region’s businesses are remunerative) and No. 25 in terms of per capita fixed asset formation. The Republic of Bashkortostan had the greatest share of profit-making enterprises (87.5%); Tomsk, Lipetsk, and Archangelsk Regions and Kransodar Territory also did better than Sverdlovsk Region in this respect.

As for the region’s goods and services per capita output and per capita population income, figures came to 248,450 RUR and 13,956.1 RUR respectively, which gives Sverdlovsk Region the 12th and the 14th positions in the rating, which is worse than the positions given to Sakhalin Region, the Republic of Komi, and some other constituent entities.