OREANDA-NEWS. Ilja Krivogov was appointed as Director General of the Mono-Cities Development Fund by a decision of the Fund's Supervisory Board dated July 17, 2015.

Earlier Ilja Krivogovwas the Head of the Investment Consulting and Mono-Cities' Project Expert Examination Directorate of Vnesheconombank's Regional Policy Department.

Nowadays, the Fund entered into 12 general agreements with the heads of nine regions on the joint implementation of mono-cities' development projects as well as three agreements on co-funding the projects in the course of implementing which the first payments were made to the budgets of the Sverdlovsk and the Kemerovo regions in order to take measures for constructing and reconstructing infrastructure facilities needed to implement new investment projects in such mono-cities as Krasnoturinsk and Yurga.

The Fund focuses on implementing further measures for providing government support to mono-cities on the basis of project approach designed to create necessary conditions for putting forward top-quality local and outside project initiatives.