St. Petersburg - a strategic partner of the Rostov region.

Rostov region in the XII Petersburg International Economic Forum concluded MOUs with companies, investors: with "The Guardian" on the construction of a factory for the production of sheet glass in Krasnosulinskom area, with the company Lafarge SA to build a cement plant in Matveyeva-Kurgan area (the plant production capacity of 4 million tons of cement per year), with the "Ball" on the construction of industrial enterprises for the production of cans for drinks in the Azov area.

Investment in projects, which represents the Rostov region at the XII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, will be more than 800 million dollars.

As part of the trade-economic and scientific-technical cooperation delivery of products from the Rostov region in St. Petersburg over the past three years increased by three times. This food - meat and poultry, canning and fish products, vegetables and fruits, vegetable oil, as well as trucks, chemical fibers and yarns, steel pipes, painting supplies. Petersburg enterprise supply Don tram cars, elevators, tractors, rolling of ferrous metals, equipment for nuclear power plants, as well as consumer goods - clothing, items made of gold and silver, alcoholic beverages, brandy. Interregional relations are not limited to trade and economic relations. Every year the theater stage Rostov region were artists from St. Petersburg, exposition, scheduled for the Days of Culture of St. Petersburg in September next year.