Omsk region in 2009, won an honorable third place among the regions of the Russian Federation on development of small businesses

Omsk region in 2009 to promote small business yielded good results, despite the fact that, in the bordering areas of the number of SMEs has decreased considerably. According to the local Ministry of Economy, the number of small businesses in the Omsk region increased by about 30%. Compared with the Novosibirsk region, where at 01.01.2008 the number of registered SMEs was about 13,000, as of 01.01.2010 - has decreased to nearly 4,000, the Omsk region just a storehouse for beginning businessmen. Another neighbor of the Omsk Region - Altai region reduced the number of small businesses by nearly five thousand, despite the introduction of active support from local governments to develop and support small and medium-sized businesses. In the Tomsk region of MBP decreased by approximately 4,000 units. This reduction in small businesses in the Russian regions is not surprising since the global financial crisis in 2009 put the development of small businesses in jeopardy. In those regions where the program support and development of small business have been weak or non-existent, entrepreneurs were the easiest to liquidate its business, rather than stay afloat. Due to the fact that in the Omsk region was promptly organized a program to support small businesses has created an infrastructure to support small businesses, formed the legal framework, a system of government orders, the number of SMEs in 2008 in the region not only remained in the same size, but also increased. As a result of small business development in Russia, Omsk region ranked third nationwide in terms of small businesses. In addition, local authorities say that on our laurels, they will not stop, and this year will actively support this sector of the economy. In 2010 the authorities of the Omsk region are ready to increase financial investments in small businesses up to 1 billion 200 million rubles.