Chelyabinsk region 1 Moscow RUSSIA

2 Chelyabinsk region Area: 87,9 thousand km2, Population: 3550,4 thousand people Biggest cities: Chelyabinsk – 1095,1 thousand people Magnitogorsk – 416,7 thousand people Zlatoust – 193,9 thousand people Chelyabinsk region

3 Iron ores : 24 deposits, 837 million tons Copper and zinc ores : 11 deposits, 120 million tons Gold : 4 ore deposits and 41 placers Chelyabinsk region More than 300 ore deposits: Iron, zinc and copper ores, gold, fire resistant raw materials, talc, graphite, quartz, kaolin, barite, phosphorite, furnace dolomite, fluxing limestone, titan, manganese, chrome, building stone, mortar sand, brick earth, decorative stones of wide color spectrum and various drawing patterns.

4 12th place as to Gross regional product 6th place as to industrial volume Among Russian regions: Region long-term credit rating – Aa 2 (rus) Region short-term rating – RUS-1 Chelyabinsk region

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Structure: Ferrous and non-ferrous branches 27% of all Russian rolled-metal and steel 13, 5% of all Russian pipe-rolling Enterprises of most importance are: «Magnitogorsk Steel and Iron Integrated Works» OJSC «Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Integrated Works» OJSC «Chelyabinsk Electrolyte Zinc Plant» OJSC «Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant» OJSC «Chelyabinsk Electric Integrated Iron & Steel Works» OJSC Metallurgical plants located in the mountainous industrial areas of the Urals ( «Zlatoust Iron & Steel Works» OJSC, «Asha Iron & Steel Works» OJSC, «Magnesit» OJSC in Satka, «Satka Cast iron Works» OJSC ) Plants producing metal products and hardware ( «Magnitogorsk Metal Products Works» OJSC, «Minyar Metal Products Works» CJSC ) Metallurgy 6 Chelyabinsk region

Product articles: Mining equipment Industrial tractors Trucks Bull-dozers Motor-driven graders Hoisting cranes Instruments Machine-building Leading enterprises of the branch «Urals Automobile Plant» OJSC «Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant» – «Uraltrack» OJSC «Chelyabinsk road-building machines» CJSC «Metran», industrial group «Teplopribor» OJSC 7 Chelyabinsk region

Investment background Foreign investment geography: Ukraine Kazakhstan Switzerland France Italy Great Britain Austria Germany 8 Chelyabinsk region

Investment background Foreign investment structure as to economic branches 9 Chelyabinsk region

Foreign investment into Chelyabinsk region 1.Vena OJSC – brewery, Sweden, Denmark, Scotland; 2.Metran IG CJSC, wholesale trading, Great Britain, USA; 3.KNAUFGIPS Chelyabinsk OJSC – lime production, Germany; 4.CARBO Ceramics (Eurasia) Ltd – proppant production, USA; 5.Barclay Capitals and Eureka Mining Plc., planned to invest about 300 mln. US dollars, Great Britain. 10 Chelyabinsk region More than 100 enterprises of the region were established due to foreign investment participation. The most large companies as follows

Chelyabinsk region foreign trade balance 11 Chelyabinsk region

12 Chelyabinsk region foreign trade balance by countries (%)