Sverdlovsk Region Allots 300m to Apply for EXPO 2020

Sverdlovsk Region Finance Ministry came up with the first figures regarding the cost of Sverdlovsk Region applying for hosting the World Universal Exhibition EXPO 2020. A candidate city has to get ready for an examination by inspection committees and prepare a detailed plan with all kinds of projects ranging from the architectural ones (a master plan of EXPO premises and the suggestions for its further use) to the transportation concept to the city’s sustainable development project for 2011-2020,’ the Ministry announced today. To elaborate such a grand application, one needs to use the

The House of Representatives approved of the changes in Sverdlovsk Region State Property Management Program for 2011. Acting Sverdlovsk Region Minister for Public Property Management Georgy Alekseyev explained the changes were necessary in order to set up an autonomous non-profit organization that will deal with preparing and submitting an application for Yekaterinburg’s hosting the World Universal Exhibition EXPO 2020. The organization is to receive a donation of 10,000 RUR from the region’s budget. To finance the performance of the said autonomous non-profit organization, 300m RUR is

An autonomous non-profit organization is to be set up in Sverdlovsk Region to deal with the organization and submission of Yekaterinburg’s EXPO 2020 application. The organization will also work on setting up a coordination committee for the World Universal Exhibition. The company’s assets will probably comprise a voluntary donation of 10,000 RUR deducted from the region’s budget. Consequently, Yekaterinburg will be competing for EXPO 2020 through a company with only a token authorized capital. On the other hand, even the very first draft budgets for the application process strike one’s

Russia’s Ministry for Industry is to present the country’s application for hosting EXPO 2020 in Davos, Switzerland, in the course of the current economic forum. The candidate Russian city for hosting the exhibition is Yekaterinburg. In addition to Moscow-based officials, the representatives of EXPO 2020 application committee, Sverdlovsk Region’s Minister for International & Foreign Economic Relations Alexander Kharlov, and Mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Porunov arrived in Switzerland as well. It was reported today that after a recent tender, a 6.5m RUR contract was signed for the

Deputy of Sverdlovsk Region Duma Georgy Persky obtained some detailed information on how the 300m RUR allocated from the region’s budget to prepare Yekaterinburg’s application for hosting the World Universal Exhibition EXPO 2020 will be spent. Now the sum in question is to come from the redistribution of Mid-Urals’ Development Corporation’s budget. 11m is allocated for the official announcement of joining the application process. This figure covers professional advice and coordination on all the papers involved, the analysis of the earlier experience, and some events for the press. In plain