Overview
- Moscow Region attracted over 1.358 trillion rubles in fixed investment in January–September 2025, a 10.7% increase year over year.
- Investment chief Ekaterina Zinovyeva says the current pace could lift the region’s annual total to 2 trillion rubles by year-end, compared with 1.8 trillion in 2024.
- Smolensk directed about 77 billion rubles into its economy and social sphere over nine months, nearly 11 billion more than a year earlier.
- Smolensk’s investment growth reached 6.2%, ranking fifth in the Central Federal District and 20th nationwide, outpacing the national rate by 5.7 percentage points.
- Agriculture investment in Smolensk more than doubled, education rose nearly 1.5 times, and gains were recorded in manufacturing, culture, sports, hospitality and food service, as the region expands the Phoenix and Safonovo parks, the Stabna SEZ and the Dorogobuzh advanced development territory.