Analysis

Investment prospects in Samara

The Company is planning to continue progressive development in Russia. The main goal is to exceed the 1,333,000 m2 mark for commercial real estate in cities with over one million people.

The primary trend of development is thus the construction of new shopping centres in Samara and Samara region. This is because of the region’s high potential and moderate risk for investors. In the rating of RF regions with an above-average investment potential level for the last 12 years, the Samara region is ranked 7th (after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Moscow region, Sverdlovskaya Oblast, Khanty-Mansi District and Krasnoyarsk Oblast)*.

(*According to data from the Report of the UN development program in the Russian Federation, published in May 2009: «Russian regions: goals, problems, achievement»)

Geography and description of the region:

• Samara is a major Russian city on the left bank of the Volga river, at the bend of the Samarskaya Luka, between the mouths of the Samara and Sok rivers. It is the administrative centre of the Samara Oblast. The city territory area is about 465.97 sq.km.
• Population — 1.158 million people in the city, 3,178 million people in the Oblast (as of 1.01.2008), within the boundaries of a municipal formation equal to 2.2% of the population of the Russian Federation (6th place in the Russian Federation after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhniy Novgorod).
• Samara Oblast occupies a 53,600 sq. km. area and includes 10 towns and 27 municipal districts (comprising 304 settlements). The region is notable for its beneficial geographical location, thanks to which the region is one of the biggest traffic nodes in the Russian Federation.