Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2036

The Strategy of socio-economic development of the Leningrad region until 2036 was approved by Regional Law No. 70-oz dated June 23, 2025.

In 2019–2023, of the Leningrad region demonstrated stable development, but the COVID-19 pandemic and geopolitical events affected its economy. Positive aspects include:

Growth in industrial production and investment;

Improvement in the population's standard of living;

Reduction in poverty.

However, serious challenges remain related to sanctions, labor shortages and infrastructure problems.

Directions and development priorities

1. Demography: stimulating birth rates, reducing mortality, increasing life expectancy;

2. Technological sophistication of the economy: creating conditions for lengthening technological chains and developing manufacturing industries;

3. Food sustainability: increasing food production and import substitution;

4. Transport complex: improving the quality of transport services and reducing travel time;

5. Tourism: increasing the share of the tourism industry in GRP and qualitative development of tourism infrastructure;

6. Comfortable settlements: improving the level of amenities and infrastructure provision of settlements.

Documents

Investment strategy

A comprehensive system for working with investors has been created in the region: for support of investment projects on a “one-stop shop” basis, the Economic Development Agency of the Leningrad region operates, an information database of land plots and infrastructure facilities (IRIS) has been formed, and “MFCs for business” operate.

14 industrial parks are available in of the Leningrad region; the town of Pikalyovo has been assigned the status of territory of advanced socio-economic development. It is planned to create a port-type special economic zone in Primorsk, Vyborg District. To further intensify investment activity, of the Leningrad region faces a number of challenges:

spatial polarization of investment: 2/3 of investment is concentrated in four municipalities of the Leningrad region;
sectoral polarization of investment: over the past three years, almost 70% of investment was provided by investments in transport and logistics, manufacturing, and energy; investments in post-industrial sectors (including budget investments) did not exceed 20%;
growing competition for investors between regions of the Russian Federation: reducing the tax burden on investors, softening regulatory policy and eliminating administrative barriers, introducing new approaches to attracting investors (The Leningrad region has risen by 25 positions in the ASI investment climate rating over three years, but 100% of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation have also increased their scores in this rating).

The main actions (tasks) for shaping the investment climate of the Leningrad region are focused on reducing administrative barriers for business, stimulating the development of the post-industrial sector of the economy, and updating and focusing investor support measures.

Implementation mechanisms

New public administration technologies

The MFC system formed over the past five years has significantly changed the format of interaction between citizens and government bodies. Requirements have become much stricter: citizens and the business community want to receive services instantly and in a digital environment, completely abandoning personal visits to government bodies or MFCs, to personally influence decision-making, including in the budget sphere, and to minimize the human factor in making simple decisions in the public sector. The main demand is that the state should not provide services or issue certificates, but help in resolving various life situations.

The main actions (tasks) will be aimed at increasing transparency, reducing time and labor costs for internal public administration processes; transition to providing services for life situations in a proactive mode (what a citizen is entitled to by law is received automatically).

Set of solutions:

introduce at least 10 superservices for main life situations: birth of a child, loss of a loved one, receiving social assistance, obtaining land for construction, creating a capital construction facility, obtaining permits for entrepreneurial activity, etc.;
organize the provision of services in MFCs on the principle of extraterritoriality in a proactive mode: citizens and businesses should be able to receive state and municipal services regardless of their location;
restructure 80 key internal public administration processes (including automation of such processes): from providing support measures to internal document flow and issuing normative legal acts. This will reduce time and labor costs for performing state functions up to the “online” mode;
introduce “big data” technologies into the decision-making system, which state information systems, mobile operators, and IT companies possess in real time; for example, when deciding on the construction of a polyclinic, the actual number of citizens living in the territory and their concentration will be analyzed.

Digital transformation of public administration

Digitalization of public administration will concern those areas of activity where the highest effect will be obtained for achieving the goals of socio-economic development of the Leningrad region. Starting with the implementation of small and compact pilot projects in 2019–2020, the coverage of systemic projects will iteratively expand, constantly taking into account technological development and changes in information needs.

The main actions (tasks) are aimed at creating digital platforms and reference information resources that allow, on their basis, to build the operation of industry information systems, create superservices, provide services to citizens and the business community, and make decisions based on online data.

Set of solutions:

create a Regional Data Management System, including digital profiles of the citizen and company: a unified information environment with unified data transmission buses, a data warehouse, and access interfaces (the system should integrate and unify the use of current data from existing and future state and municipal information systems, registries, databases, unstructured open sources, and ensure data openness for developing services based on them), including:

1. introduce situation centers – a set of individually and situationally adaptable digital tools for heads of state government and local government bodies, allowing them to make quality operational, tactical, and strategic decisions based on data;

2. create a unified digital platform for the provision of state and municipal services (“Gosuslugi” platform): combine information systems used in interdepartmental interaction and by the multifunctional center “My Documents”, the portal of state services of the Leningrad region, and create a digital profile of the citizen on the basis of this platform;

3. create a digital cartographic basis for the territory of the Leningrad region with high spatial resolution for agricultural lands, settlements, industry, energy, transport, communications, radio broadcasting, television, informatics, specially protected areas, water fund and reserve objects, with integration of the obtained basic spatial data into the GIS FPD.

create a Digital Complex of the Investment and Construction Sphere (ISOGD) – a complex of interconnected information systems and data sources in the sphere of territorial planning, urban development, provision of services to investors and developers, monitoring and control and supervisory activities in the construction sphere, support of BIM technologies and remote land use monitoring technologies, effective use of the land and property complex, including agricultural lands;
ensure the training of highly qualified personnel, including for the digital economy, by forming digital competence passports of the region's residents, creating a center of professional competencies, and effectively distributing labor resources;
create a unified digital circuit in healthcare based on the unified state information system in the field of healthcare – development of a secure data transmission network, equipping employees of medical organizations with automated workstations, development of medical information systems and a centralized subsystem in the field of healthcare in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Health of Russia, implementation of electronic prescriptions and “telemedicine consultations”;
create basic infrastructure for collecting, analyzing, distributing, and visualizing data from public safety and comfortable living environment systems in order to increase crime detection rates and reduce response time to incidents. On the basis of the State Public Institution of the Leningrad region “Regional Monitoring Center”: consolidate video surveillance systems of the Leningrad region, create a video stream analytics system capable of working with online and archived video streams, create a monitoring system for integrated security systems based on the 112 System, integrate the public safety system with the relevant information systems of emergency services (MVD, FSB, EMERCOM, etc.) and neighboring constituent entities of the Russian Federation, integrate environmental, housing and communal services, and road condition monitoring sensors into the monitoring system.

Target indicators of the implementation of the Strategy of socio-economic development of the Leningrad region until 2036:

2025-2027

2028-2030

2031-2036

Population size
(at end of period),
thousand people (forecast)

2 072,1

2 106,4

2 175,4

GRP growth rate
(average annual), %

2,7

2,6

2,9

Quality of life rating
(at end of period), place

Tax and non-tax
revenues (average
for the period), billion rubles

285,1

310,1

414,4

Share of SME entities
that exceeded the threshold
values for determining categories of SMEs (micro, small, medium), %

0,65

0,8

1,1

Index of agricultural
production (average annual), %

101,2

102,1

100,5

Real average monthly
wage (average annual growth rate), %

103

102,9

Life expectancy
at birth (at end of
period), number of years

76,9

78,56

81,0

Economy and investment climate of the Leningrad region