Ulan-Ude City (Russia)
Ulan-Ude is twinned with the city of Chita from 2011. Republic of Buryatia is located in the south of Siberia and lake Baikal shores. It borders on Mongolia in the South, Irkutsk region and Tyva Republic in the North-West, Zabaikalsky region in the East.
Capital of the Republic of Buryatia is Ulan-Ude. It is 5532 kilometers east of Moscow. Local time is Moscow time plus five hours or in other words Moscow is five hours behind Ulan-Ude. The area of Ulan-Ude is 377 square kilometers, the population - 377, 1 thousand people (2010).
Climate
Ulan-Ude lies in the mountain valley of the Selenga and the Uda rivers between Khamar-Daban and Ulan-Burgasy ranges, 75 kilometers east of Lake Baikal. Climate is extreme continental. Winter is long, frosty and sunny. Summer is short, with hot days and cool nights. Good rainfalls happen only in July and August. Autumn is warm and dry and is known by its long “Indian summer”. Climate of Buryatia is good for health because of abundant sunshine, dry air and rare clouds. By the number of sunny days (327days) the republic is compared with the Crimea, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It has long been named as “Sunny Buryatia”.Ulan-Ude investments projects
Tourist infrastructure construction projects are profitable business investments. Closeness of Ulan-Ude to Lake Baikal facilitates the development of tourist business in the city. Ulan-Ude administration has identified 22 investments sites for hotels construction, seven projects being implemented and fifteen are open for investors:
- nine hotels will be located in the historical part of the city. Old houses will be wrecked and residents resettled (total area of 19 ha, 860 rooms, 520 flats for people to be resettled for the sum of 494 million. RUB);
- four sites without encumbrance in new developing city districts;
- two sites are being on the arrangement stage.
In the area of Verkhnyaya Beryozovka, the favorite recreation area of citizens there are resources for developing medical, health improvement, cultural, business and education tourism.
Park hotel “Verkhnyaya Beryozovka” is designed as a recreational complex offering visitors and citizens a wide range of tourist and recreational services: accommodation, restaurants with different cuisine, conference and exhibition halls, Spa complex, business tourism center, modern center of oriental medicine, all seasonal recreation center “Adrenalin”, Ulan-Ude zoo and dendro park. The investment portfolio of the project is 3,123 million rubles.
In July 2010 the agreement to create a regional special economic zone of tourism and recreation “Park Hotel Verkhnyaya Beryozovka” was signed between the Government of the republic of Buryatia and Ulan-Ude Administration.
Terms of investments for infrastructure projects
Currently there are active discussions with investors on Park Hotel “Verkhnyaya Beryozovka” project. For potential residents tax preferences for 5 years are established: business property tax exemption; reduction of corporate profit tax rates by 4,5% ; land tax relief for the first 5 years, and 50% tax rate reduction for the next 5 years.
Administration of Ulan-Ude invites investors to take part in the construction of modern tourist infrastructure objects. You can get all necessary information on the website www.ulan-ude-eg.ru or by telephone in Ulan-Ude +7 (3012) 21-80-88, 21-07-27, e-mail: ker@-u-ude.ru
Our city witnessed great marches of Huns and Genghis Khan, horsed trains along Great Tea Route, the visit of cesarevitch Nicolai, crown prince of the Russian empire, the beginning of Transiberian rail road construction and many other events. Today the capital of the Republic of Buryatia is a modern city offering comfort and peace to its citizens and guests while preserving its special features that spice up its uniqueness.
Coming to Ulan-Ude, the capital of Republic of Buryatia You will have a chance to learn about Orthodox and Buddhist relics, traditions and customs of the Buryats and get inspired by the culture of Old Believers and People of the North.
