More than seventeen thousand Kuban mastered entrepreneurial skills with the support of the regional authorities

Start your own business, learn how to manage finances or find new opportunities for the development of an already operating company – residents of Krasnodar Krai can get the necessary knowledge for free within the framework of the support infrastructure built in the region.

- More than seventeen thousand residents of Kuban were trained on free programs, taking part in more than six hundred and fifty events of the regional center "My Business". These are courses, seminars, online training for existing entrepreneurs and those who are just planning to start their own business. The effect of such non-financial support for entrepreneurship is an increase of more than ten percent in the number of small and medium-sized businesses in the region over three years. Today, more than 323 thousand entrepreneurs work in the region. According to this indicator, the region has been the leader in the Southern Federal District for several years, and also ranks fourth in Russia, competing with Moscow, the Moscow Region and St. Petersburg, said Alexander Ruppel, Vice-Governor of the Krasnodar Territory.

Special attention is paid to those who are just starting their way in business. For example, since 2021, on the initiative of the Governor of Kuban Veniamin Kondratiev, ten streams of the educational project “School of a Young Entrepreneur” have been held in the region. Young people's business. Its participants were more than 12.7 thousand people aged from eighteen to thirty-five years.

There are also programs for residents of certain categories. So, the project “Mother in the countryside” helps women with young children to implement their own business ideas. For four years, a hundred residents of the region took advantage of this opportunity. In 2026, the course “Our Business” was launched for veterans of combat operations, participants in a special military operation and their families. More than two hundred and thirty applications have already been submitted for full-time and distance learning.

- In December of this year, another project for the business community will start - a free business camp "My Business". Over four years of the project implementation, more than five hundred existing entrepreneurs became its participants. We strive to create conditions in which representatives of small and medium-sized businesses can find new solutions for their tasks, establish business contacts and open up prospects for further growth, said Yulia Prikhodko, Head of the Department of Business Development and Foreign Economic Affairs of the region.

Selection for participation in the business camp is already open. Applications are accepted by phone hotline of the regional center "My Business" 8 (800) 707-07-11 or on the official website of the center until the twentieth of November. The event will be held from the first to the third of December. Within three days, one hundred participants will undergo intensive training. Fifteen experts and entrepreneurs will share their experience, who will present practical tools for business development, analyze real cases and introduce modern approaches to managing their own business.