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On November 27, 2018 Gary Koren, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Israel to Russia, accompanied by a delegation visited Kaluga Region. The purpose of the visit was to familiarize with industrial and investment potential of the region, to discuss promising lines of cooperation. 

Anatoly Artamonov, Kaluga Region Governor, held a meeting with Johannes Aigner, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Austria to the Russian Federation, paying a business visit to Kaluga, on November 20, 2018.  

NLMK Kaluga (a member of Rolled Steel Division, Russia, NLMK Group), a next generation electrometallurgical plant,  has introduced an online system for rolling stock management. The system monitors cars and locomotives’ movements at the plant railways.  

Kaluga Region Delegation headed by Governor Anatoly Artamonov  will take part in the First China International Import Expo to be held on November 4 – 7, 2018 in Shanghai (China). Business program is to include addition to discussions, plenary and theme sessions, working meetings with state authorities’ representatives from Chinese provinces.

On October 31, opening ceremony of unique production facility took place at the site of NEARMEDIC PHARMA plant in Obninsk industrial park, Kaluga Region. The full-cycle facility is to manufacture reactants for genetic person’s identification and establishment of filiation through DNA tests. The project is implemented with support of state Fund of Industrial Development, which provided a loan of RUR 202.4 mln. Total value of the project is RUR 289.2 mln.

A cooperation agreement was concluded between the Government of Kaluga Region and MiraxBioPharma AO on October 18, 2018.  The agreement provides for implementation of an investment project at the territory of Maloyaroslavetsky District envisaging the construction of a plant to manufacture non-sterile medicines and substances intended for treatment of pre-cancerous pathologies and prevention of cancer disease of reproductive system.

Delegation of Tochigi Prefecture (Japan) headed by Tomikazu Fukuda, Governor, was in Kaluga Region on October 16, 2018 on a working visit. The purpose of the visit consists in familiarizing with economic and investment potential of the region, establishing cooperation links with local business community and developing academic and tourism exchange programs.  

Official opening ceremony of Total Vostok OOO plant took place on October 15 in Vorsino Industrial Park, Kaluga Region. The plant will manufacture, store and ship motor oils as well as lubricant oils and associated materials. Pavel Sorokin, Deputy Minister of Energy, Anatoly Artamonov, Governor of Kaluga Region, Patrick Pouyanné, Chairman and CEO of Total, Arnaud le Foll, Director General, Total Exploration and Production Russia, Fabien Voisin, Director General, Total Vostok OOO attended the opening ceremony.

IX International Forum on Development of Automobile Manufacturing and Innovation Infrastructure in Russia AutoEvolution 2018 opened on October 10, 2018 in Kaluga. AutoEvolution Forum gathers representatives of federal and regional authorities, state corporations, development institutes, manufacturers of cars, trucks and automotive components, managers of infrastructural and innovative projects in order to discuss prospects of automotive industry development in Russia. Alexander Morozov, Deputy Minister for Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Kurochkin, Vice-President of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Anatoly Artamonov, Governor of Kaluga Region, Marcus Osegowitsch, Director General of Volkswagen Group Rus, Georgy Rotov, Director General of Continental Kaluga took part in the discussions.

On October 2, within the frame of the International Transport and Logistics Forum PRO //Motion.1520, Alexei Shilo, Commercial Director of Russian Railways – Head of Center of Branded Transport Service and Yuri Yuriev, Executive Director of Freight Village RU signed cooperation and interaction agreement.