Leningrad region attracted investments in environmental development

The Lebyazhy Nature Reserve and the Bianchi Glade natural landscape will be improved in the Leningrad Region. This provides for an agreement concluded at SPIEF 2025 with Philip Morris International's Affiliated Companies in Russia.

The cooperation is aimed at implementing measures to preserve natural complexes and develop the tourist infrastructure of specially protected natural areas in the region.

"Over the past 4 years, we have signed agreements worth 2.3 trillion rubles at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum alone, of which 90% is already under active implementation or has already been implemented. It is clear that any investment burden is a burden on the environment, it is a burden on nature, it is a burden on the territory where construction begins. Therefore, we decided that if we create a large-scale production facility, we will create a specially protected natural area nearby, either a landscape reserve or a nature park. As a result, the Leningrad Region is now a leader in specially protected natural areas. And I am very pleased that Philip Morris, its Russian representative office, was one of the first to decide to respond to our request and become a permanent partner of the Tropa 47 project. Today we are signing an agreement on a specially protected area of regional significance, the Lebyazhy Nature Reserve, and a protected area of local significance, the Polyana Bianchi protected natural landscape, immortalized by our famous writer," said Governor Alexander Drozdenko.

According to Sergey Slipchenko, Vice President for Corporate Affairs at FMI in Russia, the environmental development of the regions where the company operates is one of the company's key priorities in the field of corporate social responsibility. "We are confident that our joint work will bring significant benefits to both the residents of the region and the numerous tourists who will visit the local natural complexes," Slipchenko added.