City of Innopolis ANO

The organization ANO "City of Innopolis" was established by the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of Tatarstan together with the Innopolis Mayor's Office. The organization's activities are aimed at "creating a unique quality of life and development of the city as a whole."

One of the key projects of the Innopolis City ANO is a resource center to ensure the influx of qualified IT specialists into Innopolis resident companies. With its help, more than 500 people have already been attracted.

Innopolis University

Higher education in the city is represented by the latest Russian IT university - Innopolis University, which at the end of 2019 is among the top 5 Russian universities in terms of the quality of admission of applicants (the average USE score of students enrolled in year 1 is 92.7) - 2020 data. In the 2020 academic year, 771 students from 37 countries of the world study. Since 2018, the NTI Competence Center has been operating on the basis of the university in the direction of "Technologies for Robotics and Mechatronics Components." Unmanned vehicles developed by the center's specialists traveled 19 thousand km during testing. And on the basis of one of the laboratories of the center, a leading world scientific school in the field of neuroscience is developing. The university is also developing applied projects for the largest Russian companies - Gazprom, Aeroflot, KAMAZ, Norilsk Nickel, RusHydro, and since 2019 it has been training personnel for digital transformation in the field of public administration.

Innopolis Special Economic Zone

The Innopolis Special Economic Zone is located on the territory of Innopolis, whose residents have access to preferential tax rates on income, income, property, land, transport. There are divisions of Russian corporations (Sberbank, Yandex, MTS, X5 Retail Group, Magnit) and enterprises with foreign participation (Schneider Electric, IBM, Soramitsu Labs, Provectus, Portavita, NNG) - a total of 97 residents, 18 partners and 39 startups. Companies have created more than 3.4 thousand jobs here - 2020 data.

History

2024

From Kazan to Innopolis, a cable car will be built for 23 billion rubles

In Tatarstan, the construction of a cable car will begin, which will connect Kazan, Verkhny Uslon and Innopolis. Director of the scientific and production organization "Gulliver" Damir Altynbaev in September 2024 presented the main stages and parameters of the project. The project is estimated at ₽ 23 billion and will be implemented in three stages. The cable car will become an important element of the region's transport infrastructure, providing convenient and fast communication between cities and the district.

According to RBC, the first stage of construction involves the connection of Kazan with Upper Uslon. The length of the section will be 8.6 km, and about ₽10 billion will be required for its implementation. The road will be able to carry up to 2.4 thousand passengers per hour, working 20 hours a day. Travel time will be only 24 minutes, which will allow residents of several districts to quickly get to the center of Kazan, to the Kremlin metro station. The starting point of the route will be the stadium area or the coastline, which is now under discussion.

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The second stage of the construction of the cable car provides for the further connection of Upper Uslon with neighboring areas. The length of this section will be 6 km, and its implementation will require another ₽6 billion. The third stage will extend the cable car to Innopolis, with a length of 10 km and an investment volume of ₽7 billion. Thus, the completion of all stages of the project will make it possible to connect Kazan with the innovative city of Innopolis, significantly improving transport links in the region.

The construction of the cable car is supposed to be implemented using modules, which will speed up the implementation time. According to Altynbayev, when solving all organizational issues, the first stage can be completed in 10-12 months. The high level of factory readiness of the modular elements of the project helps to reduce construction time and reduce costs.^[1]

The departure of Ruslan Shagaleev from the post of mayor

On June 18, 2024, Mayor Innopolis Ruslan Shagaleev announced his resignation after 8 years in this post. More. here

2020

Every day there are 4,600 people in the city - these are residents, guests and employees of local companies. All the necessary life support facilities (bank branches, supermarkets, restaurants, beauty salons, etc.) work for them, rental and commercial housing is being actively built: 22 rental apartment buildings for 1,572 apartments have already been commissioned, as well as 21 townhouses, in which all 168 apartments have been sold. In the near future, a cultural center, a hotel and a number of industrial facilities will appear in the city.

Innopolis is the youngest city in Russia and not only because it was founded in the 21st century - the average age of local residents does not exceed 30 years. Another interesting fact is that the happiness index here is several points higher than in most cities of Russia (85 points out of 100). The indicator is influenced by several important criteria, for example, work, health, family and children.

181 babies were born to residents of the city in 5 years since its opening, and a total of 910 young Innopolis live here. For children, there are:

• 2 kindergartens, whose pupils (241 children) are engaged in English, mental arithmetic and music.
• Innopolis School, where 329 students in grades 1-11, in addition to the standard educational program, develop in creative directions and play sports.

IT boarding school, where 152 students in grades 7-11 study physics and mathematics in depth.

Innopolis is one of the pilot cities of the Smart City federal project: smart city and 5G technologies are being tested here, networks of "smart" meters and "smart" intercoms are operating, "smart" parking lots are being introduced , unmanned vehicles are driving along the streets, and a virtual employee of the city hall answers the citizens' questions bot Inna. On the day of the city, testing of the Innopolis digital 4D model will be launched, which is a platform with an interactive map of the city and various services for managing urban processes. The first participants in the testing will be able to become the residents of the city themselves.

2017: Partnership with Technopolice GS

On November 23, 2017, the Technopolice GS innovation cluster, the city of Innopolis and the administration of the Gusevsky city district entered into a strategic partnership agreement. The parties agreed to jointly develop new forms of cooperation between universities and high-tech industries, form the personnel potential of the digital economy, as well as create an association of innovation centers to achieve sustainable development of the territories. One of the key areas of work will be the joint development of educational formats, in particular, the project of the University Campus on the territory of Technopolice GS.

The parties agreed to jointly develop cooperation between educational institutions and enterprises in the fields of microelectronics, electronics, media and innovative project management. The main task is the formation of competencies in demand in the high-tech sphere among future specialists. Read more here.

2012-2015

In 2012, a capsule was laid on the site of the future city with a message to its future residents, in 2014 - the city officially appeared on the map of Russia, and on June 9, 2015, the grand opening of Innopolis took place. By this time, the construction of the building of the Technopark named after Popov, the sports complex, the building of Innopolis University and the student campus, residential buildings and engineering infrastructure. So, in a few years, Innopolis has become a full-fledged city, attractive for life, work and study, which today continues to develop rapidly.