Ratings:
• The agency "Standart & Poor's" has assigned the region at the level “BB”( prognosis “ positive”) according to the international investment rating.
• Following the results of investment risk rating in the regions in 2007-2008 held by publicity agency “Expert” Krasnodar Krai has the lowest index of investment risk.
• Krasnodar Krai took the 5th position in the rating of investment potential of Russian regions for 2007-2008.
• According to the rating of financial sustainability held by publicity agency “Expert”^ meet the category”A” – High reliability.
• Krasnodar Krai is one of the ten regions-leaders of Russia in progress of economics development and investment attractiveness. Krasnodar Krai takes the 2nd position in the rating of Russian regions for legislative activity in the sphere of investments.
• In accordance with the independent evaluation of Forbes the capital of the region Krasnodar was accounted as the best Russian city for business in 22 terms of social-economic development in May 2009.
Krasnodar Krai is a federal subject of Russia, located in the Southern Federal District. Krai is situated in the south-west part of North Caucasus. Krasnodar Krai borders with Rostov Oblast in the north-east, in the east – with Stavropol Krai, in the south - with Abkhazia. The territory of Krai is bounded by Azov and Black Sea.
The area of Krasnodar Krai is 76 000 km2 or 0.4% from the whole territory of Russian Federation.
Krasnodar Krai consists of:
• 38 regions
• 26 towns, 15 from which are under the regional subordination and 11 of district subordination.
• 21 urban-type settlements
• 389 rural administrative districts, uniting 1717 rural residential places.
Krasnodar is an administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai. Founded in 1793, Krasnodar is a large administrative, financial, industrial, educational and cultural centre now with the population nearly 1 mln. people (including suburbs).
Population
Krasnodar Krai takes the 3rd place in the population of Russia – 5, 124 mln. people, including approximately 53%- in towns, 47% in rural places. The prevailing population- Russians, majority of which relate themselves to the specific subethnos – Kuban kazachestvo. Average of population – 66,6 people on 1 km2 .
Transport infrastructure
Krasnodar Krai is a significant place for communicational processes in the South of Russia. The length of railway roads on the territory of Krai is 2,2 thousand square kilometers. There are 8 sea ports and 5 airports on the territory of Krai. Sea ports provide a direct access through Azov and Black Sea to the international foreign trade ways and handle 35% Russian foreign trade and transshipment cargos, serve about 1/3 of Russian oil export.
A number of large oil- and gaspipes of Russian and international significance run through the territory of Krasnodar Krai.
Caspian pipeline consortium and the “ Blue Stream” hold a specific place.
Gross Regional Product and sectoral structure of economics
Agroindustrial , building, industrial, fuel and energy complexes, the field of informational and communicational technologies, and also transport, resort and tourist sectors make the basis of productive power of Krasnodar region. According to the results of 2007 the following sectors had the biggest share in the general structure of Gross Regional Product of the region:
• Transport and communications (18,0%);
• Wholesale and retail trade (17,9%);
• Agriculture (14,3%);
• Process industry (12,2%);
• Building (10,3%).
   
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