Russia’s largest science town

Biysk, the second biggest city in the Altay territory, is a regional scientific and technological center with considerable human resources and research-and-production capacities. Its high-tech companies employ about half of all researchers in the territory and receive more than 60 percent of the region’s spending on R&D. 

Late in 2005, the city was granted the official status of a science town of the Russian Federation. Apart from solving tasks of national importance, Biysk serves as the pillar for the regional innovation system and the site of implementation of major investment projects.

The originality of Biysk consists in the possibility to have a full innovation chain within the bounds of one municipality. The full innovation cycle, from pure research to design and manufacturing high-tech products is secured by the city’s research and production complex consisting of 15 high-tech enterprises working in cooperation with small innovation companies. For example, more than 60 science-intensive firms have been set up in the framework of the RPC Altay alone. Altogether, Biysk hosts more than 130 industrial enterprises.

With the purpose to develop the innovation infrastructure and attract funds from the Ministry of Economic Development, the city is building an innovative business incubator and is planning to develop a system of shared use of state-of-the-art research equipment in the sphere of nano- and biotechnologies.

Biysk researchers also work on the creation of a wide range of modern chemical technologies for

various industries and agriculture. Unlike other science towns with their normally rather narrow specialization, Biysk was originally planned to host a broad variety of research and production facilities that in addition to solving objectives of federal importance would be working to meet demands of the Altay territory.

Biysk researchers were the first in the world to organize the production of nanodiamonds and invented techniques of metaldiamond coating successfully introduced in this country and abroad. The city hosts the Association “Interregional Center for Nanotechnology.” Researchers today are engaged in developing technologies for the production of artificial blood vessels on the basis of polymeric compositions, nanoceramic and nanometalic materials, new selective sorbents for space medicine, as well as of modern dual purpose composite materials.

The Altay Biopharmaceutical Cluster uses the latest achievements of the sector to have the full innovation cycle from developing technologies and substances to marketing, mass production and sale of new medicines, bio-active additives, food and apparatus complexes with the healing effect on the human body.

Cluster residents are 26 companies, including such leaders of the Russian pharmaceutical market as private companies Evlar and Altayvitaminy. Today, cluster companies produce sprays, suppositories, ointments, non-sterile liquids, active products and extracts. The construction of production lines for infusions and ampoules is nearing completion.

Biysk enjoys its geographical location as a major transportation hub in southwestern West Siberia.  Hundreds of thousands of travelers pass through Biysk every year. It is the best place from where one can comfortably reach Mountainous Altay, Belokurikha and the Teletskoye Lake. 

Due to its favorable geographic location and a number of internationally important projects associated with the creation of special economic zones “Biryuzovaya Katun” and “Sibirskaya Moneta” Biysk is becoming attractive for investments. A considerable investment flow is expected into innovations in pharmaceuticals and nanotechnologies as well as into the development of touristic and transportation infrastructure and logistics. 

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