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Cooperation between the Leningrad region and Belarus in the field of housing and communal services and equipment supplies.
St. PETERSBURG, October 2 - RIA Novosti. The total volume of contracts in the housing and communal services sector of the Leningrad region with Belarus amounted to more than 500 million rubles this year, said the governor of the Russian region, Alexander Drozdenko, following a visit to the Innoprom Belarus exhibition.
“We continue to work in the field of housing and communal services - heat metering devices, modern digital technologies. The total volume of contracts this year alone is more than 500 million rubles. We are implementing a project together with the Development Bank of Belarus: installation of heat metering units,” Drozdenko wrote in his channel on the Max platform.
He added that in the Leningrad region, in the Priozersky district, a pilot project is also being implemented in the housing and communal services sector, where the supply volume has already amounted to 300 heat metering units, and potentially 12 thousand heating units throughout the region.
“Belarusian products have been working reliably in the Leningrad region for a long time. Elevator equipment is used at our social facilities, in the system of major repairs of apartment buildings. Last year at the stand we looked at new buses, tested them in the region, and today we are ready to enter into a large contract,” Drozdenko noted.
The head of the region said that Belarusian solutions are actively used in the field of water treatment - modular water treatment and wastewater treatment plants are already operating in the Leningrad region.
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