OREANDA-NEWS. March 26, 2012. In order to additionally enable Russia’s regions to develop new strategic lines of mono-cities’ development Vnesheconombank together with the Finance University under the Russian Government held a theoretic and practical workshop “Modernization Lines of Russian Mono-Cities. Non-Standard Solutions”.

The workshop was designed to integrate the Finance University’s scientific potential with Vnesheconombank’s and regional administrations’ practical experience to develop non-standard proposals for addressing problems faced by mono-cities.

Welcoming addresses were given by the Finance University’s principal for research and development Marina Fedotova and Deputy Chairman of State Corporation ‘Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vneasheconombank)’ Irina Makieva.

In the attendance of the meeting were lecturers of the University, representatives of Vnesheconombank, federal authorities, regional administrations and municipalities, students and post graduate students of the Finance University.

The workshop’s participants made presentations of the first results from implementing a package of measures for modernizing mono-cities’ economies as well as of main lines of Vnesheconombank Group’s participation in modernizing mono-cities.

Representatives of administrations from the Kemerovo region and the Republic of Tatarstan told about measures taken as well as about investment projects in mono-cities that received the state’s support. Students and post graduate students of the Finance University who provided the most interesting non-standard solutions to mono-cities’ modernization were awarded certificates as part of Vnesheconombank’s educational project.

The workshop resulted in formulating recommendations on using proposed alternative solutions to mono-cities’ development.