1. Head of the Department for Small and
Medium Business Support,
Committee for Economic Development,
Industrial Policy and Trade
Sergey Tolokontsev

2. 35% 75%
Lack of qualified human resources
61%
21% 50%
Limited access to financing
38%
23%
Infrastructure
36%
17%
Comlexities linked to introduction of new technologies 43%
28%
33%
High labor costs
23%
36%
Administrative regulation
19%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
EU St.Petersburg, 2008 St.Petersburg, 2010
Note: The research conducted by «OPORA RUSSIA». Data used in the research refers
to 27 EU member states, Iceland, Norway and Turkey

3. Nonprofit organization «Fund for
Small Business Credit Assistance»
Founded: October 29, 2007 Special program of
Fund assets as of 28.10.2011: 2 bln. RUB subsidizing credit % rate
Total limit of guarantees: 4.9 млрд. руб. Since the beginning of the
Term of operation: without limitations
program 1,500 SMEs received
Participants of the Fund’s programs: 37 banks subsidies to the amount of
Credit guarantees
357.5 mln. RUB which allowed
Number of credit guarantee agreements to attract 1.4 bln. RUB.
concluded since the beginning
of operation – 1,096
Volume of guarantees granted since
the beginning of operation– 4.9 bln. RUB
Special program of subsidizing
Microfinancing program (up to 1 mln. RUB for leasing payments
a term of 1 year at 10% interest per annum) Since the beginning of the program
Number of loans granted since the beginning of operation –
150 SMEs received subsidies to the
150
amount of 50 mln. RUB which
Volume of loans granted since the beginning of operation –
allowed to acquire fixed assets to the
71.4 bln. RUB
amount of 350 mln. RUB

4. The First St. Petersburg Business Incubator
Residents’ earnings (mln. RUB)
100 79 90 80
54
50
0
2008 2009 2010 I пол. 2011
As of 01.11 2011 the business incubator
accommodates 37 residents
Center for prototyping of composite Center of shared access
material articles and coating application
70 orders to the amount of 0.4 mln. RUB fulfilled
since August 2011
25 contracts to the amount of 10 mln. RUB
concluded since May 2011

5. Special program «Regional University of Small Business»
Implementation of the
Collection and processing Development of
educational and advanced
of applications from advanced vocational
vocational training
unions and associations training programs in
of entrepreneurs on programs in cooperation
accordance with the
needs in staff training with Universities from
needs
St. Petersburg
20 educational
programs
Introduction to Current directions
Seminars, trainings
doing business in economics
350 SMEs have undergone
training

6. PROBLEM
1. GRID CONNECTION 1. Consultation center on issues of grid connection in the Entrepreneurs House
of St. Petersburg. Consultants: JSC Lenenergo, St. Petersburg retail company,
Energia Holding
2. Connection:
А) Simplified electric power connection procedure ( up to 15 kW per 550 RUB
per 1 kW tariff) on the conditions that facility is located no more than 300
meters away from power supply source)
B) No reference rules in contracts
С)Approval time reduced from 72 to 26 days
3. Consumption:
А) Fixed advance payment
В) No more than 15% in excess demand energy (without fines)
4. Special program «Grid connection» (up to 50% of connection costs up to 500
kW)
2. PROPERTY PROVISION 1. Realization of the Federal law dated 22.07.2008 № 159-FZ
«On preferential right of buyout …»:
А) 1826 SMEs bought out rental facilities ( total area of 223,575 sq.m). During a
10-month period of 2011 the number of bought-out facilities increased by 34%.
В) Beginning 01.01.2011 deferred payment term extended from 2 to 3 years
С) Bought-out facilities: St. Petersburg - 30%, Yekaterinburg - 20 %, Moscow - 5%
2. Realization of the «Mortgage» program in cooperation with the North-West
Bank of Sberbank of Russia and Fund for Small Business Credit Assistance

7. PROBLEM
3. TAXATION 1. St. Petersburg Law dated 05.05.2009 № 185-36 «On introduction of a tax rate
for organizations and individual entrepreneurs using simplified tax system on
the territory of St. Petersburg»:
А) Tax rate reduced from 15 to 10 % on condition that taxed items are revenues
reduced by the amount of expenditures.
B) Volume of city budget revenue shortfall in 2010 constituted 724 mln. RUB
Functioning of the Public Council on Small Business Development under the
4. DIALOGUE BETWEEN BUSINESSES auspices of the Governor of St. Petersburg:
AND AUTHORITIES -24 amendments into business regulating normative acts of the city and the
Russian Federation prepared and introduced
- Operational legal service organized: 2.5 thousand consultations carried out.
- More than 60 thousand entrepreneurs participated in the events organized by
the Council (round tables, seminars, conferences) in 2008-2011

8. Comfort of living Self-employment
Promoting affordability and diversified
assortment of products and services Increasing the number of work
provided to the residents of places, growth in the number of
St. Petersburg population employed in small
business
trade 34% 276.9 thousand residents
applied to the Employment
75%
public catering service
189.7 thousand citizens
consumer services 90%
employed, including 55 %
employed in small and medium
Changing the sectoral structure business
Increasing the share of manufacturing and innovative
sectors, growing small businesses into medium-sized
businesses, increasing budget tax receipts
3
Small manufacturing enterprises allocate times more taxes and fees to the budget of
St. Petersburg than consumer services enterprises

9. Results of the conference on localization
and import substitution held in 2011
Results of implementation of a special
program «Grants for private business
Identification establishment» in 2009-2011
Participation
Initial audit 980 new SMEs established
Negotiations
7,000 new work places created
Grant
Lensvet Volume of program financing –
Company Identified Invited Participated Negotiations Supply of 360 mln. RUB
pilot
samples
Localization
Nissan Manufacturing
128 89 54 40 7 SMEs survival rate constituted
Rus
Hyundai Motor 70% in 2009-2010
Manufacturing Rus 136 68 28 17 2
GM Auto 226 198 37 * *
BSH Home Appliances
147 118 19 9 4 Achievement of comfort of living standards
Import-substitution in districts of the city
State Unitary
125 109 34 17 3
Enterprise «Lensvet»
State Unitary
Enterprise «Vodokanal 232 217 73 35 4
of St. Petersburg»

10. MULTI-SERVICES CENTER -
«ONE-STOP SHOP» FOR STATE SERVICES PROVISION
FOR LEGAL ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUAL
ENTREPRENEURS
10-12 Krasnogo tekstilschika Street
Aims of establishment:
– optimization of operation of executive authorities of St. Petersburg
– elimination of administrative barriers
Functions:
– provision of state services to legal entities and individual entrepreneurs
– acceptance of documents for state support of SMEs
Agreements of cooperation signed with 11 executive authorities of St. Petersburg
via WEBSITE
(beginning
December 2011)
SUBMISSION OF
DOCUMENTS
via CENTER

11. Energy efficiency development program
Encouraging the introduction of
energy efficient technologies
Support of crafts
Folk crafts center, exhibitions
Support of youth entrepreneurship
Involving youth in business activities
USA Support of socially unprotected
Support of separate groups of groups of population
entrepreneurs
Improvement of energy efficiency
Franchise development program
Regions of the Russian
Federation NEW SUPPORT MEASURES
Development of subsidy programs
Localization, import substitution and subcontracting
development programs
European Union
Increase in public procurement Facilitation of SME participation in
Internationalization program public procurement
Promotion of entrepreneurship through mass media
Education and advanced
vocational training
Export support
Enterprise Europe Network – St. Petersburg,
special program

12. Target indicators
Volume of financing
№ Target indicator Value by
2015 Program for 2012-2015 Program for 2008-2011
1. Increase in the reporting year in comparison with the
0.40 6 bln. 4.4 bln.
previous year in the share of products (works, services) RUB, including RUB, including
produced by SMEs in the total GRP volume of St. federal federal
Petersburg (in %) financing financing
2. Increase in the reporting year in comparison with the
2.00
previous year in SMEs tax proceeds into the budget of St.
Petersburg (in %) +36%
3. Increase in the reporting year in comparison with the
4.00
previous year in the share of innovative and
manufacturing SMEs (in %)
4. Increase in the reporting year in comparison with the
2.20 Directions in implementation
previous year in the number of work places created by
SMEs (in %) 1. Increasing the access to financial resources
5. Share of population employed in SMEs within the total
44.50 2. Strengthening of market positions
number of employed population in St. Petersburg (in %) 3. Development of social partnership
4. Development of workforce capacity
5. Increasing public significance
6. Number of SMEs per 1,000 population
44.30 6. Analysis of development indicators and efficiency of
support measures
7. Information support
7. Growth in the reporting year in comparison with the
5.00
previous year in the average salary paid by SMEs (in %)

13. Share of manufacturing SMEs in
the total number of SMEs Average monthly
Share of SMEs per sum of salary Investment in
public procurement fixed capital
placement
Share of
8.9 21,357 1,456 turnover in the
36 % RUB mln. 22 total turnover of
organizations
% %
130 28.66
thousand %
1230.4 31.3
Increase in the 333.17
number of work thousand thousand Share of SMEs in tax
places during
a 9-month period
thousand receipts to the budget of
St. Petersburg
Number of people employed in Increase in the
SMEs
number of SMEs
(42% of economically active Number of SMEs in
population) during a 9-month
St. Petersburg
period

14. Government of
St. Petersburg
Thank you for your
attention!
Head of the Department for Small and Medium Business Support,
Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade
Sergey Tolokontsev
Теl.: 576-00-10
E-mail: s.tolokontsev@cedipt.spb.ru