federal university, a regional investigative department and law-enforcement agencies will be created.
Pyatigorsk, the new capital of the district, is already being beautified: its fountains are being reconstructed and illuminated. Presidential plenipotentiary representative Alexander Kloponin had promised to present a complex program of development for the region and, already this spring, reports of new projects are starting to be heard.
Kabardino-Balkaria has developed 150 projects to be included in the complex strategy of development of the regions of the NCFD, the total cost of which is 243 billion rubles. The implementation of these projects could create 44 thousand new jobs. The annual contribution to the budget at all levels will be more than 16 billion rubles.
Realization of all the projects will give an opportunity to double the GDP of the region, to multiply agricultural production by 230%, food production by 150%, industrial production by 300% and tourist services by a factor of 20.
Chechnya has developed a set of projects with total cost of 260 billion rubles.
North Ossetia is also working in this field. Its strategy will include
plans to develop four spheres: agricultuel, innovative-educational
projects, fuel-energy and tourism.
The block of suggestions of the Stavropol District includes 115 projects. Georgi Yefremov, Deputy Premier of the District, said that the development project which had existed previously had been extended by new infrastructural suggestions. For instance, the officials of the
region propose to create a youth camp in the region of Kavminvody. It is proposed to build it among mountains 8 km from Kislovodsk. The authorities of the Stavropol district propose creating a road network in the framework of the creation of a unified inter-regional health
resort network within 2 hours access. The new network will connect the health resorts of Kavminvody, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachayevo-Circassia.
A month ago Khloponin proposed making the North Caucasus a place for entrance tourism, at a meeting with members of creative associations and religious organizations. 'The impressive diversity of cultures and the unique traditions of nations are of great interest to those who
arrive and will come to the region as tourists' - he said. Stavropol immediately proposed a new tourist product - the Levokum district may become a new tourist site for ethnology, announced the district's Economic Development Ministry, which has started to develop the project. Today, anthropological tourism is considered a priority branch of tourism. Tourists can get acquainted with the history of Cossack settlements, with their culture and lifestyle and "wine" traditions.
The Pyatigorsk Tourist Company brought the first group of tourist managers for an advertising tour to this district in April.
They were shown the museum of anthropology, which contains various artifacts, books, religious icons, pictures of Nekrasovets-kozaks and Molokan christians. They were also shown the process of wine production and were invited to a tasting.
Lida Ledeneva, Stavropol District. Exclusively for VK
