Saint Petersburg Marina (tourist cluster)

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2024: Approval of construction for 210 billion rubles

At the end of March 2024, the construction of a new tourist cluster "St. Petersburg Marina" at the "Gorskaya" site was approved in Russia. 210 billion rubles will be allocated for the implementation of this project.

The initiative, according to TASS, was told by the governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov. According to him, from the total cost of the project 165 billion rubles will be the funds of investors for the creation of tourist infrastructure facilities. Another 45 billion rubles is the preliminary cost of facilities that provide infrastructure: they will be created partially at the expense of the federal and city budgets.

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The creation of the St. Petersburg Marina resort on the coast of the Gulf of Finland will be implemented in several stages. At the first, it is planned to form a yacht service hub: these works will last until 2025-2026. By 2028, the historical Poltava shipyard will be recreated; in addition, a hotel complex will appear. By 2029, a business center with a film studio and a spa hotel will be built. In general, the project is designed for the period until 2030.

St. Petersburg Marina is part of the Five Seas federal program to create year-round seaside resorts. It provides for the formation of resort areas on the Baltic, Azov, Black, Caspian and Japanese seas and on Lake Baikal. Together, they are expected to increase the number of domestic travel trips to 140 million per year. The resort "St. Petersburg Marina" will be located on the shores of the Baltic Sea, 20 km from the Northern capital. The implementation of the large-scale project "Five Seas" will require not only the construction of tourist infrastructure, but also roads, transport hubs, energy facilities, etc. The total costs of forming seaside resorts are estimated at 1 trillion rubles.^[1]

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