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Entrepreneurship and Industry Support Fund of the Leningrad Region

The Fund acts as a "single window" for providing state support to small and medium-sized businesses, individual entrepreneurs, self-employed citizens, as well as individuals planning to start their own business.

The Entrepreneurship and Industry Support Fund of the Leningrad Region performs the functions of a single governing body for organizations that form the infrastructure for supporting entrepreneurship in the region.

The organization operates at the "My Business" center. The Fund's structure includes:

Regional Microfinance Organization
Regional Guarantee Organization
Credit and Investment Support Center
Entrepreneurship Support Center
Regional Engineering Center
Social Innovation Center
Youth Innovative Creativity Center

Consultations and services are also provided at the "My Business" center by:

The Multifunctional Center for the Provision of State and Municipal Services of the Leningrad Region
The Competence Center in the field of agricultural cooperation and support for farmers of the Leningrad Region
Public organizations and business associations of the Leningrad Region
The Commissioner for the Protection of Entrepreneurs' Rights in the Leningrad Region

Fund Services

providing microloans to SMEs, self-employed citizens, and organizations forming the SME support infrastructure;
providing sureties (guarantees) for the obligations of SMEs and organizations forming the SME support infrastructure to creditors;
providing concessional debt financing for projects aimed at import substitution and the production of competitive products, under the programs of the federal Industrial Development Fund;
information, consulting, and methodological support for small and medium-sized businesses, self-employed citizens, and municipal entrepreneurship support infrastructure organizations;
providing consulting services within the framework of state support for modernization projects, introduction of new technologies, production and promotion of innovative products, projects in the field of import substitution and non-resource exports;
consulting, educational, and information support for social entrepreneurship projects;
conducting educational programs, seminars, trainings, master classes for entrepreneurs, self-employed citizens, individuals, and support organizations;
organizing forums, conferences, and other communication events;
assistance in popularizing entrepreneurial activities and promoting goods and services of enterprises, organizing regional competitions among small and medium-sized businesses;
studying and disseminating best practices for the development and support of entrepreneurship in other regions of the Russian Federation and abroad;
informing about events in the business environment and measures to support entrepreneurs in the media and on internet resources, maintaining and developing the portal www.813.ru and the Fund's social media groups.

Vadim Markovich Averin

Director of the Fund "Entrepreneurship and Industry Support Fund of the Leningrad Region, Microcredit Company"

Address: St. Petersburg, Energetikov Prospekt, 3A, "Lada" Business Center, 9th floor (Ladozhskaya metro station)
Phone: +7 (812) 309 46 88
E-mail: fpp@813.ru
Official website: 813.ru
VK: @fpp47
Telegram: @fpp_lo