Alexander Beglov told the President about the development of St. Petersburg industry

Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the achievements of the St. Petersburg industry and its role in the urban economy. This was told in the press service of Smolny.

According to Alexander Beglov, the growth of industrial production became the basis for the stability of the Northern capital and the stability of macroeconomic indicators of the city.

The lowest level of poverty in Russia is in St. Petersburg. It's only 3.2 percent. The unemployment rate does not exceed 1.5%. About 470,000 Petersburgers work at industrial enterprises. A year earlier, there were 26,000 fewer.

The industrial sector of the city is developing in several directions. The revival of the automotive cluster provides citizens with additional jobs. All four sites, empty after the departure of foreign companies, are working again. These include plants in Sestroretsk and Shushary, whose total capacity is 300,000 vehicles per year.

So, at the "Avtozavod St. Petersburg" assemble a new model LADA ISKRA, and at another site in Shushary produce cars representative class SENAT.

The city governor also told Vladimir Putin about the largest center of direct laser cultivation in Russia at the St. Petersburg Maritime Technical University. Thanks to the new technology of 3D printing of metals, the production time has been reduced by six times: instead of 13 months, two.

Among other examples, the head of the city singled out the Semargl industrial robot plant for logistics and the center for the production of synthetic diamonds.