The decision to create a special economic zone on the territory of the White Mountain near Nizhny Tagil will be taken on February 13. On this day, Governor Yevgeny Kuyvashev will meet with businessmen of Nizhny Tagil. This was reported by the Minister of Investments and Development of the Sverdlovsk Region Victoria Kazakova, who will present the project of the Ministry at the meeting.

If Kuyvashev makes a positive decision, the draft law on the creation of a special economic zone with a tourist and recreational bias on the Belaya Mountain will be prepared and submitted to the Legislative Assembly within 2018, JustMedia correspondent reports.. en.

"Our task is to create conditions that would stimulate entrepreneurs to create and accommodation facilities, and objects of tourist infrastructure. Indeed, the possibility of creating a special economic zone of a regional type is being discussed so that entrepreneurs can receive tax benefits within the framework of the powers of the Sverdlovsk region. But the final decision will be made by the governor, "Kazakova explained..

The experience of creating special economic zones of a regional type is in the Lipetsk, Tyumen and Murmansk regions.