Sverdlovsk Industry Minister Sergei Perestoronin told the heads of municipalities how to solve the problem of residents who are fired from factories, replacing them with robots. The recipe for getting rid of unemployment, he voiced at a meeting of the Council for the coordination of industrial policy implementation issues.

"Governor Yevgeny Kuyvashev set the task of joining the three leaders of Russia. To do this, the industrial structure will change, technologies will be improved, which can lead to a reduction in jobs in industry. It is now necessary to understand where the liberated forces can be directed. One of the promising segments - the production of consumer goods ", - quotes Perestorina Department of Informpolitiki Governor.

As arguments the minister cited figures: in 2017 the population of the region spent more than 250 billion rubles on non-food items of daily demand. At the same time, only 5% of the goods were of Ural production. He proposed to pay attention to such niches as the production of footwear, clothing, children's goods, furniture, leather goods and other consumer goods. The development of these niches on the one hand will save money in the region, on the other hand it will create new jobs.