The Rostov administration has compiled a list of structures for the construction of which it is planned to attract investors on the terms of municipal-private partnership (MPP). The corresponding resolution was signed on August 5 by the acting head of the city administration Yuri Ovchinnikov.

The list includes 12 projects. The authorities are looking for investors for the construction of two kindergartens and a music school in the Voroshilovsky district, a sports complex and a cultural center in Leventsovka, a swimming pool in the Zheleznodorozhny district and some other social facilities. The list also includes the reconstruction of the Viti Cherevichkin Park.

The mechanism of public-private partnership (PPP) has been used in Russia for about ten years, and so far not very successfully. In the Rostov region, about 100 similar projects were implemented, the most famous of which was the reconstruction of the embankment of the Don River in Rostov-on-Don.

According to Sergey Sapotnitsky, General Director of Agrokom Group, in general, public-private partnership can be effective when a sufficiently broad practice is developed. By the way, in Rostov, the company became one of the pioneers in this area, having concluded in 2000 a lease agreement for the municipal property complex of the park named after The October Revolution for 49 years. At the same time, the volume of investments amounted to 528.5 million rubles.

    - I think PPP projects are promising in the field of sports. For example, the construction of stadiums has social significance, but at the same time, such facilities also have a certain commercial potential. Business on its own will not be able to make them profitable, since a lot of funds are spent on maintenance, and together with the state, this is quite possible, - Sapotnitsky believes.

In early 2020, the Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation for the first time published data on the concession agreements concluded in the country. There are three thousand of them in Russia. About 90% of concessions are in the utility and energy sector. 7% is in the social sector and 3% in the transport sector. However, it is transport concessions that are the largest in terms of the total volume of investments - they account for 70% of the funds.