Master plan of creating Innopolis Kazan centre presented to President of Tatarsan

A development plan for an Innopolis Kazan innovative centre is planned to be officially published in May, Tatarstan minister of communication Nikolai Nikiforov told journalists after a meeting between President of Tatartsan Rustam Minnikhanov and general director of Singaporean RSP Architect, the project developer, Lee Tai Ker. A master plan for the Innopolis was presented to President of Tatarstan.

The innovative satellite town will be built in the Verkhny Uslon region of Tatarstan. A total of 150 thousand people, including several tens of thousands IT specialists, their families and personnel, are expected to be quartered on a space of 1,200 hectares.

According to N. Nikiforov, the Innopolis project plan would be published on the internet. “This is needed for a public debate of the project, so that investors and development institutions considered the project in terms of financing,” vice-premier noted.

Requisite documents for project’s phase one, envisaging providing conditions for 10 thousand specialists engaged in innovative industries, will be issued as early as this year. The total staff living in the Innopolis will at stage one be about 25 thousand.