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The share of cities comfortable for living has increased 2.5 times in recent years. This is evidenced by the results of the Urban Environment Quality Index for 2023, presented by the Ministry of Construction. Cities, notes Rossiyskaya Gazeta, are considered favorable for living if they score more than half of the possible points. Thus, at the end of 2019, about three hundred Russian cities (26.9%) were considered comfortable. At the end of 2023, 759 cities have already scored more than half of the possible points, which is 68% of 1,117 Russian cities.
The average score in Russia increased from 169 at the end of 2019 to 200 now (with a planned value of 198).
The most comfortable among million-plus cities, according to Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services Alexei Eresko, were Moscow (304 points versus 299 a year ago), St. Petersburg (270 points) and Nizhny Novgorod (237 points), which pushed Kazan into fourth place (226 points). points). In their groups (by population), the leaders are Yaroslavl, Khimki and Mytishchi (251 points out of 360 possible), Reutov near Moscow (273 points), Kudrovo in the Leningrad region, Istra in the Moscow region (254), Zelenogradsk in the Kaliningrad region (259), Innopolis in Tatarstan (251 points).
The quality of the environment has increased, for example, in the cities of Kartaly in the Chelyabinsk region, Svobodny in the Amur region, Orsk in the Orenburg region, and Shali in the Chechen Republic. They “crossed” the threshold and acquired the status of favorable.
The small town of Alzamay, Irkutsk region, became an outsider, scoring only 110 points.
By 2030, it is planned to increase the share of cities with a favorable urban environment to 80% and increase the average index value by one and a half times, recalled Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.
The fastest growing, according to the Ministry of Construction, is the quality of social and leisure infrastructure and adjacent spaces (from 23 points in 2019 to 31 points now) and green spaces (an increase of 28%).
Improving the quality of the urban environment has many positive effects, Eresko noted. The development of infrastructure, the emergence of high-quality roads, ports and airports makes cities more accessible and promotes the development of trade and logistics. Improving the urban environment creates more favorable conditions for business, investments attract new enterprises, and create new jobs. The implementation of the winning projects of the competition for the best projects to create a comfortable urban environment led to the creation of more than 17 thousand jobs and more than 4 thousand objects of business activity. In addition, improving the quality of the urban environment makes cities more attractive to tourists, which, in turn, again creates new jobs and develops the local economy.
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source: «Russian newspaper»
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