The Moscow region town of Skolkovo is located just 3 km from the capital. It covers an area of 500 hectares and should become the center of Russian and international science. Its second name is "Russian Silicon Valley". It is assumed that scientists will work here only with innovative projects.
The fact that Skolkovo will become the center of scientific life was announced on March 18, 2010. This statement was made by Dmitry Medvedev, who was then President of Russia, at a meeting with the winners of school and student Olympiads. According to Medvedev, Skolkovo should become an ultra-modern scientific and technical center, which will be engaged in the development and commercialization of modern technologies.
As conceived by the designers, Skolkovo should look like a comfortable scientific city, where the main 5 high-tech areas in science will develop. These include the pharmaceutical industry, energy efficiency and nuclear energy, space development, and information technology.
Skolkovo must meet modern requirements for a scientific city of this level. It is assumed that it should be so effective and convenient that all Russian scientists preferred to work in it, who, due to the lack of working conditions, went abroad to develop their ideas and be able to make useful discoveries. According to statistics, there are about 1,000,000 such geniuses who have left. Skolkovo should also be designed for those talents in the scientific field who live and try to work directly in Russia.
The latest technology, modern technologies, facilities that are convenient for work - this is how the Skolkovo science city should look by the date of its opening in 2014. The budget of such a large-scale project is 200 billion rubles.
The construction of the Open University with the same name is also planned on the territory of the scientific city. As planned by the planners, it should become a source of applicants for Skolkovo University, and it will also represent a source of interns for companies that are partners of the scientific city. Educational institutions should have the best equipment, comfortable and modern laboratories.
One of the main requirements for the construction of an innovative scientific city is to provide the facility with transport accessibility. In the city itself, pedestrians and cyclists should have an undeniable advantage. Public transport will also be held in high esteem. It will be possible to get from Moscow to Skolkovo by electric trains, which will depart from two stations in the capital - Belorussky and Kievsky.
