YEVPATORIA CITY DISTRICT
Location: Russian Federation, Southern Federal District, Republic of Crimea.
Area – 65,5 km2 (0.25 % of the total territory of the republic).
Population – 121,2 thousand people (including the city of Yevpatoria — 107,7 thousand people).
Distance from the city of Simferopol – 64 km.
The city district comprises Yevpatoria city and the urban-type settlements of Zaozernoye, Mirny, and Novoozernoye.
Yevpatoria city is located in the South-Western part of the steppe Crimea, on the coast of the Kalamitsky Bay of the Black sea, and stretches along the coast for 20 km and 7 km North to the steppe. It is surrounded by water on three sides: from the South – the sea with sandy beaches, from the East - the largest salt lake of Crimea Sasyk-Sivash, from the West – lake Moinaki, famous for its healing mud.
The city was founded at the end of the VI century BC and throughout its 2500-year history has had three names: in ancient times – Kerkinitida, in the middle ages – Gezlev, in modern times – Yevpatoria. Three-time change of names of the city reflected the largest historical epochs: Greek colonization, the birth of the Crimean khanate and the entry into the Ottoman Empire, the adjunction of Crimea to the Russian Empire in 1783.
Investment attractiveness
Industry specialization of the region: health resorts and tourism, recreation, industry, transport.
City is widely known as a first-class climatic, balneotherapeutic mud and drinking resort, children's health resort. The combination of natural resources: therapeutic mud, mineral waters, sea water, mild coastal steppe climate, sandy beaches of the shallow Kalamitsky Bay, as well as developed infrastructure and a network of health resorts make Yevpatoria one of the best places for recreation and treatment. Improvement of health resorts and tourist complexes is the main priority for the development of urban economy.
Within the framework of creating a favorable investment climate, the municipal programme "Economic development and formation of the investment portfolio of the municipality of the city of Yevpatoria of the Republic of Crimea" is being implemented.
The practice of creating an accessible information environment for investors in the territory of the municipal formation of the city district of Yevpatoria of the Republic of Crimea is being implemented.
Sanatoriums and health resorts
On the territory of the city of Yevpatoria during the holiday season, 155 collective accommodation facilities functioned, including 32 sanatoriums, 5 boarding houses with treatment, 25 boarding houses, 2 recreation centers, 9 camps, and 82 hotels designed for 27 756 thousand beds.
One of the best sanatoriums are: Sanatorium "Oren-Krym" LLC; SUE RC "SOK "RUSSIA" affiliate sanatorium "Primorye"; PC "Sanatorium "Gold coast"; SBE RC "Sanatorium for children and children with parents "Orlenok"; the Federal Government Health Institution "Sanatorium "Burevestnik" Ministry of Internal Affairs; the Sports Center "Evolution"; SOK "Empire"; HRC RC "SDiDR "Iskra"; FSUE "Military Yevpatoria children's clinical sanatorium named after E.P. Glinka" the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.
All health resorts have a medical and diagnostic base that allows you to treat diseases of the cardiovascular system, musculo-skeletal system, upper respiratory tract, central and peripheral nervous system, including the consequences of polio, urological and gynecological diseases, skin diseases and metabolic disorders. Medical rehabilitation is widely developed, including the use of surgical treatment methods.
Yevpatoria has a significant research potential. Programmes of year-round family Spa treatment, health and recreation, dolphin therapy programme (the first in the CIS developed by the International Institute of Dolphin Therapy, established in Yevpatoria in 2003) have been developed. In recent years, Yevpatoria has been actively developing as a drinking resort. On the territory of the city there are 24 wells with mineral drinking water. The composition of water is different everywhere, but each of the sources is therapeutic. There are two free city pump rooms.
The largest hotel complexes: hotel "Ukraine Palace", hotel and entertainment complex "Yuliana", tourist and health complex "TES–hotel", hotel "Ribera Resort&SPA", pension "Lake of dreams", hotel "Korona", hotel "California".
History and culture attract tourists
There are 192 historical and cultural monuments in Yevpatoria. Main attractions are the objects included in the excursion and tourist route "Little Jerusalem": St. Elijah's Church, St. Nicholas Cathedral, Yeghia-Kapay synagogue, "Tekie dervishey" complex, Armenian Church of St. Nicholas, "Karaim kenas" complex, "Khan-Jami" mosque, Turkish baths of the XVI century.
Popular objects such as the cultural-ethnographic complex "Jeval" with the recreated fortress walls of the medieval city of Gezlev "Odun Bazar Kapusy", Museum of world sculpture and applied art of the city Yevpatoria, postal museum of the city of Yevpatoria, aquarium, dolphinarium, dendrological park, entertainment complex "Dinopark", water park "Aqualand – U Lukomori'ya".
Investment in children's recreation and wellness
It is planned to create a cluster "Children's recreation and health improvement recreation" in the city district, which will improve the city's infrastructure, including: major repairs of roads, reconstruction of the city's sewer and water supply networks, restoration of the "Moinaki" mud baths, completion of the reconstruction of the Tereshkova embankment, further development of the route "Small Jerusalem", completion of the construction of the "Golden key" children's theater complex, and completion of two passenger piers.
Investment in industry
The region accounts for 2% of the total volume of industrial products sold in the Republic of Crimea.
The largest enterprises of the food industry are Yevpatoria bakery - a branch of "Krymkhleb" LLC, "Yevpatoria classic wine factory" LLC, "Intavr" LLC - production of drinking water, "Argo" Company LTD" - production of bakery products, "Kolos" LLC - production of flour and pasta, "Megatrade - Yug" Subsidiary" LLC - production of dairy products, "Kristina" PCC LLC - processing and canning of fish and seafood.
Industry submitted SUE RC "Yevpatoria aircraft repair plant" – repair of aircraft equipment JSC "Plant "Vympel" – production of miniature and subminiature metal products of high precision ferrous and non-ferrous metals, large-scale production of electrical connectors and parts.
Investment in transport
Yevpatoriya is a well-developed transport hub of the Republic of Crimea, which is a commercial seaport (a branch of the state unitary enterprise "Crimean sea ports" "Yevpatoriysky trade port"). With its own passenger fleet, the port is active in the field of sea tourism, provides boat trips and excursions along the coast of the Kalamita Gulf. In addition, the port has the ability to carry out ferry services.
The region has a passenger railway station, a goods station with container platforms, and a developed network of railway tracks.
The main type of passenger transport on urban routes is tram and bus transport. The length of tram tracks is more than 20 km and the tram fleet consists of 28 cars. Passenger transportation is carried out on 4 tram routes, two of them are seasonal. The share of the municipal unitary enterprise "Tram management named after I. A. Pyatetskogo" accounts for about half of the total volume of passengers transported by all modes of transport.
Large investment project
10 investment projects are being implemented on the territory of the municipal formation of Yevpatoria city district of the Republic of Crimea. The investment volume is RUB 4.7 billion, it is planned to create 634 jobs. The largest of them are:
- construction of a residential complex with built-in premises, the investment volume: RUB 2.6 billion;
- construction of the "Semeyniy" complex, the investment volume: RUB 379.3 million;
- residential complex "Dom mechty" with underground parking, office and administrative premises, investment volume: RUB 311 million;
- construction and operation of a shoe factory in Yevpatoria, the investment volume: RUB 302.2 million;
- construction and operation of the multifunctional sports complex "Arena-Crimea", the investment volume: RUB 180.0 million.
Projects implemented within the framework of the Free Economic Zone (FEZ) in Yevpatoria city district
61 projects of the Free Economic Zone (FEZ) are being implemented on the territory of Yevpatoria city district. The largest projects are being implemented in the field of industry:
- footwear production (Investment volume: RUB 215.5 million);
- construction of a cable production plant (Investment volume: RUB 125.0 million).
Investment in fixed assets in the city district of Yevpatoria
Investment in fixed assets for 2020 amounted to 1,6 billion rubles.
Per 1 person, the investment amounted to 13 thousand rubles.