Economics

01:15, 18.10.2007 | Far East Russia

Sergei Darkin, the governor of Russia’s Primorye Territory, endorsed on Tuesday the architectural plan of the business centre for the APEC-2012 summit, which is to be held in Vladivostok. It came off the drawing boards of the St. Petersburg-based Research and Design Institute for the Elaboration of Master Plans and Urban Development.

According to this concept, the principal buildings will be put up for the summit on Russki Island, near the Ayaks Bay, and also in the area of the Bay of Patrokl, Itar-Tass was told at the press centre of the territorial administration. It is planned to erect on Russki Island a complex of buildings for high-level official meetings and several hotels, as well as the entire summit infrastructure: roads, electricity and heat supply lines, etc. The document envisages the construction of two bridges. One to link Russki with the mainland part of the city in the area of Patrokl District and the second – to connect the central part of Vladivostok with Churkin Peninsula, across the Zolotoi Rog Bay.
A conference centre, a press centre, an exhibition centre, and a cluster of five- and three-star hotels will be built next to Patrokl Bay. The Primorye Oceanarium will be sited there, too.
The approved concept presupposes that after the summit Russki Island will be turned into a new administrative and business centre of Vladivostok build, changing the townscape beyond recognition.
The next stage of the preparations for the APEC-2012 summit will be the architectural designing of all the necessary structures, buildings and bridges. Their actual construction will be started in 2008. Some 140 billion roubles will be needed to design and erect all the buildings for the summit. It is planned to allocate 100 billion roubles from the Federal Budget in keeping with the Federal Target Program to Develop the Far East and the Trans-Baikal Region. The rest will come from private investors.
In addition to the structures, needed by the summit, the territorial administration is planning to settle by 2012 the problem of improving and developing the public utilities system of Vladivostok. The city and several other inhabited localities will get tap water from the extremely rich subsoil sources of the Pushkin pool.