The company expects 30 billion from the residents of Novosverdlovsk.
The deputies of the Legislative Assembly criticized the work of the Middle Urals Development Corporation, which has been ending the financial year for several years in a row with a loss of about 1 billion rubles. The deputies were surprised that in the KRSU itself, the activity is considered successful, and the financial hole is explained by the urgent need to send funds from the International University Sports Federation as a contribution to the Universiade-2023. Moreover, the scheme for covering this debt is still not visible, and in addition, the KRSU is threatened with the withdrawal of hundreds of millions of dollars aimed at creating infrastructure in the industrial park of Krasnoturinsk from the Fund for the Development of Single-industry Towns. However, the corporation hopes to resolve this issue through negotiations with federal officials and declares the need for new budget tranches of billions of rubles for the development of infrastructure for the project of the Wildberries logistics center and the implementation of the instructions of the governor, including the restructuring of the Sysert Porcelain Factory for a potential investor. The regional parliament categorically refuses to approve the next list of “investment initiatives” of KRSU until the company’s detailed financial statements and clarifications about “politics asset.”
The deputies, literally, “were extremely disappointed with the data presented and the complete absence of a description of the financial activities of the KRSU”, initially even proposing to recognize the work of the society with an average salary of 130 thousand rubles as “inefficient”.
The corporation’s loss for 2021 amounted to 947 million rubles, while revenue from core activities amounted to only 53 million, and income from participation in other organizations – 358 million rubles.
At the same time, a scheme for the return of these funds has not yet been found. The company’s receivables at the end of 2021, according to Kontur.Focus, amount to 1.825 billion. However, the funds for the successful conduct of activities in the corporation, according to the head, are available through receiving interest on loans and deposits provided, as well as transactions concluded with residents industrial parks to support projects. However, here the activities of the KRSU were also criticized.
The industrial park “Bogoslovsky” for 8 years of work was less than half full. Currently, it employs 11 residents with already attracted investments of 3.5 billion rubles. Tax revenues from them over the past year amounted to 90 million rubles, taking into account the fact that residents enjoy the benefits of the territory of advanced development.
For Bogoslovsky enterprises, KRSU leases the premises of two workshops and is preparing to build a third one at its own expense, requiring about 50 million rubles. At the same time, the largest resident, Bogoslovsky Cable Plant, is actually located outside the territory of the industrial park, but uses its utility and energy infrastructure.
Financial problems are also acute in the creation of the Novosverdlovsky industrial park. For several years, the corporation tried to resolve the issue of registering a 500-hectare site for its placement in the area of Novosverdlovskaya CHPP, but in the end decided on relocation. A new plot of 200 hectares in the area of Vysotsky Street is expected to be completed this year.
The main resident in the park should be the Wildberries company with a logistics center project, estimated, according to Igor Vizgin, at 24 billion rubles. Investments in the infrastructure of the park are estimated at 3.4 billion rubles, and it is planned to complete its creation by 2030. At the same time, half of the funds, according to the head of the KRSU, can be attracted through a federal loan. The remaining 1.7 billion came from the corporation’s own sources, which Igor Vizgin did not disclose in detail.
Funds are also required for the construction of a hotel in Nevyansk with 42 rooms. The object, as the head of the KRSU explained, “is being built on behalf of the governor.” Previously, it was planned to build a hotel at the expense of a potential investor, but now he has refused to invest, and KRSU is preparing to do it at his own expense, having spent 160 million rubles from the budget.
Another object of financing for the corporation is the Sysert Porcelain Factory, which receives a monthly loan of 1.5-2 million. The enterprise, according to Vizgin, requires modernization and reconstruction with a reduction in area from 20 to 7 thousand square meters. Financial investments in this project are estimated at 400 million rubles.
“We have a potential investor, but we are not ready to invest 400 million. He is ready to enter after the plant is reconstructed,” Vizgin said, which caused outrage among the deputies.
As a result, the deputies asked for a plan for the development of the plant and interaction with the investor, but did not receive a response. His colleagues also pointed out the need to present a detailed scheme for financing all submitted projects by the “planned unprofitable” KRSU.