Northwestern macroregion: the space of the future

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At the session-presentation "Space of the Future" representatives from the Novgorod, Leningrad, Arkhangelsk regions, as well as St. Petersburg introduced their projects in educational infrastructure, social and economic spheres.

St. Petersburg presented projects in three nominations: infrastructure, tourism and youth. The first project "New Tourist Geography" is aimed at forming a new urban guest environment.

"Over the past few years, St. Petersburg's tourist flow has been steadily growing primarily due to an increase in repeated trips. The route "St. Petersburg. New Geography" is designed to support the image of St. Petersburg as a friendly, comfortable, lively city where everyone can find many reasons to return. Each time tourists come to visit us, they want to see a non-conventional St. Petersburg, to feel a bit like locals, and to visit popular places. And the new national route gives them such an opportunity," said Oksana Lebedeva, Executive Director of the Tari Tour Group of Companies in St. Petersburg.

Dmitry Pankratov, CEO of Baltnedvizhservis LLC, spoke about the investment project "Slavyanka", within the framework of which it is planned to build a tramway line in St. Petersburg with a length of more than 21 kilometers, construct four bridges, as well as a tramway depot.

"The goal of our project is to provide transport accessibility of new city districts with modern, environmentally friendly, safe off-street tramway service.  We have come a long way in a few years, moving from presentations to business. Now full-scale construction works are underway at the construction site," emphasized Dmitry Pankratov.

 In turn, the representative of the Arkhangelsk region spoke about the social project to help children, which was organized by Irina Zvyagina, director of the center for social assistance to family and children, together with her colleagues.

"Teenage space is a comfortable place, there is modern equipment, where any teenager can come, where they will be listened to, accepted, where they will want to come back again. The main peculiarity of the teenage space is also the fact that the underage children themselves organize it, starting with the interior design, create, develop ideas, arrange and conduct activities that they are interested in, and also offer ways to implement all these activities," said Irina Zvyagina.

Representatives from the Novgorod and Leningrad regions also presented their tourism and investment projects. At the end of the presentation, the guests were introduced to the cultural traditions of the regions.