Pavel Yurasov, special correspondent

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Another recent acquisition of the plant is a line of lathes. There are 6 machines, and all of them have very high precision, up to 1 micron. And the digital display shows the physical size of the part in real time.”

Next year, the company plans to build a new workshop for the production of strapdown inertial navigation systems for civil aviation. The workshop, with an area of ​​7.5 thousand square meters, will employ 250 people.

This year, Tambov Oblast has provided growth of the industrial production index by more than 113 percent. And in this indicator, the region ranks 2nd in the Central Federal District. A large share of manufactured products comes from chemical industry enterprises, metallurgy and the production of electronic and optical products. The region's enterprises shared their successes with Denis Manturov at the exhibition.

The first industrial cluster has been created in Tambov Oblast. Its participants are engaged in the development and production of parts and equipment for agricultural machinery. They started with analogs of components, and now local designers are developing their own products. By the end of the year, the parent company plans to open a new workshop, and next year increase production volumes by 40 percent.

Stepan Milyukov, head of the enterprise: “We are talking specifically about import substitution, about analogues for imported agricultural machinery. And also, plus to everything, our agricultural machinery doctor database has already passed the tests: this is trailed and mounted equipment, a reversible plow, a disc harrow, and the seeder is already more than 90 percent assembled. And next year we are planning a serial launch.”

Denis Manturov and the acting head of the region, Evgeny Pervyshov, summed up the results of the visit at a bilateral meeting.

Denis Manturov, First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation: “In the few years since my previous visit to Tambov Oblast, much has changed positively and in terms of expanding the range and areas where fellow entrepreneurs find further development niches. I expect that with your arrival you will give an additional impetus. Come up with initiatives. We will support them.”

Evgeny Pervyshov, Acting Head of Tambov Region: “I am ready to help my colleagues. Why? Because, of course, I believe that this is one of the main priorities that the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich sets for us, among others, is the development of the industrial sector, achieving independence in all sectors of the economy.”