Mikhail Mishustin visited Innoprom 2025 and spoke at the main strategic session, Technological Leadership: Industrial Breakthrough.
Mikhail Mishustin tours the 15th Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition. Display of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. With Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov and First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov. Far right: Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia
Mikhail Mishustin views the 15th international industrial exhibition Innoprom. Joint booth of the Sverdlovsk Region. With Acting Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Denis Pasler
Mikhail Mishustin views the display of the Russia National Centre at the Innoprom exhibition. With Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov and First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov. Far left: Director General of Russia Expo Natalya Virtuozova
Mikhail Mishustin views MegaVents products at the Kyrgyz Republic's national display at the Innoprom exhibition. Second from left is Taalai Chodoev, MegaVents Business Director
Mikhail Mishustin views the national display of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the Innoprom exhibition. With Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov and First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov
Mikhail Mishustin views the national display of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the Innoprom exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin views the national display of the Republic of Kazakhstan at the Innoprom exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin at the Neurosoft joint stand of the innovative industrial projects from the Ministry of Industry and Trade at the Innoprom exhibition. With Minister of Industry, Trade Anton Alikhanov and First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov and Acting Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Denis Pasler
Mikhail Mishustin at the Neurosoft joint stand of the innovative industrial projects from the Ministry of Industry and Trade at the Innoprom exhibition. With Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov and First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov
Mikhail Mishustin views the joint stand of the Ministry of Industry and Trade innovative industrial projects at the Innoprom exhibition. With Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov and First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov
Mikhail Mishustin views the joint stand of the Ministry of Industry and Trade innovative industrial projects at the Innoprom exhibition. With Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov and First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov
Mikhail Mishustin views the joint stand of the Ministry of Industry and Trade innovative industrial projects at the Innoprom exhibition. With First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov
Mikhail Mishustin views the joint stand of the Republic of Bashkortostan at the Innoprom exhibition. With Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan Radiy Khabirov at the Innoprom exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin tours the 15th Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition. With First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov
Mikhail Mishustin tours the 15th Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition. With Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov and First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov
Remarks by Mikhail Mishustin at the Technological Leadership: Industrial Breakthrough strategic session
Remarks by Mikhail Mishustin at the Technological Leadership: Industrial Breakthrough strategic session
Mikhail Mishustin tours the 15th Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition. Display of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. With Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov and First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov. Far right: Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia
The Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition has been held in Yekaterinburg annually since 2010. It is the main industrial, trade, and export platform in Russia, serving as a platform for laying the foundations of industrial policy. About 80 percent of the exhibition visitors are professional buyers from around the world and specialists from industrial enterprises who make decisions on manufacturing new products and technologies.
On 7–10 July, the International Exhibition Centre Yekaterinburg Expo is hosting the 15th Innoprom International Industrial Exhibition. This year, its topic is Technological Leadership: Industrial Breakthrough.
This year, five countries present their national expositions: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, partner country of Innoprom 2025, as well as Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Belarus.
From among Russian companies, Rostec State Corporation, Rosatom State Corporation, Sber, Gazprombank, Sinara, Transmashholding, and PC Transport Systems will present large-scale stands. Collective expositions are expected to be presented by 33 regions of Russia: Vologda Region, Donetsk People's Republic, Zaporozhye Region, Kaluga Region, Kirov Region, Krasnodar Territory, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Kurgan Region, Lipetsk Region, Lugansk People's Republic, Moscow, Orenburg Region, Oryol Region, Perm Territory, Primorye Territory, Rostov Region, Republic of Bashkortostan, Republic of Karelia, Komi Republic, Republic of Mari El, Republic of Tatarstan, Samara Region, Sakhalin Region, Sverdlovsk Region, Tambov Region, Tver Region, Tomsk Region, Tula Region, Udmurt Republic, Chelyabinsk Region, Chuvash Republic, Kherson Region, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area — Yugra.
The joint national displays cover an area of 2,445 square metres. Official delegations are expected from China, UAE, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Myanmar, Egypt, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, CAR, Congo, Burkina Faso, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as countries represented by national expositions. We also expect business delegations from no less than 52 countries, including Iran, Qatar, China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Senegal, Guinea, Ghana and Türkiye.
The main tracks of the Innoprom business programme are: International Cooperation, Industrial Innovations, Digital Manufacturing, Industrial IT, Cybersecurity in Industry, Finance and Industry, Industrial Infrastructure, New Mobility, Metropolitan Solutions, Labour Productivity, HR Solutions and Educational Solutions for Industry. The Business Programme sessions will be held throughout the four days of the exhibition.
The Technological Leadership: Industrial Breakthrough strategic session will be the key event of the Innoprom 2025 Business Programme, which will include presentation of the Industria award, 11th national industrial prize of Russia.
The award was established by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in 2014, to promote adoption of promising technologies in industrial production and public recognition of the Russian companies’ advanced practices in industrial development. The Industria award was granted the status of a government prize in 2015. The record 392 applications for the prize were received in 2025. Most of them came from Moscow, St Petersburg, Sverdlovsk, Moscow and Chelyabinsk regions. The nominees included Biotechno LLC, KEAZ JSC, Optical Fibre Systems JSC, JSC NPP Radar MMS and Severstal PJSC. The laureate's and nominees' projects will be presented at the stand of innovative industrial projects of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Mikhail Mishustin’s statement at the INNOPROM Main Strategic Session: Technological Leadership: Industrial Breakthrough
Remarks by Mikhail Mishustin at the Technological Leadership: Industrial Breakthrough strategic session
Good afternoon, friends, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues.
I would like to extend my wholehearted greetings to the participants and guests of Russia’s main industrial exhibition.
It is celebrating a landmark event this year. Yekaterinburg has become the centre of attraction for the leading industrial companies from Russia and friendly countries for the 15th time. They have gathered here to identify new growth points and make new business contacts.
Direct communication on this platform helps get a clearer view of the situation on the ground and see the ongoing changes facing entrepreneurs and enterprises.
As usual, we welcome a large number of our international partners. It is no coincidence that more than one-third of stands here feature foreign achievements.
Official delegations have come here from 17 countries, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, China and the United Arab Emirates. There are also business representatives from Iran, Qatar, Türkiye and a score of other countries.
We are delighted to welcome everyone who wants to develop constructive dialogue and mutually beneficial cooperation.
My colleagues and I have just now examined the technological achievements of our foreign partners, as well as the numerous innovative solutions of Russia’s leading producers.
A large business programme and the 9th Russia-China EXPO, which is being held simultaneously with the main event, will help develop and strengthen ties between entrepreneurs.
Saudi Arabia is the partner country of INNOPROM this year, which is direct evidence of the high standards of Russian-Saudi interaction. We share a striving for mutual respect, independence and technological sovereignty.
I would like to welcome the large delegation from the Kingdom led by Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Ibrahim Alkhorayef. We have had a good conversation with him at Saudi Arabia’s stand.
We share our friends’ commitment to cooperation based on pragmatism and partnership.
Trade and economic relations between the Russian Federation and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are developing smoothly. I believe that we have a solid possibility to boost our cooperation in oil and gas engineering, the automobile industry, pharmaceutics, the production of mineral fertilisers, information technology and many other spheres.
I also support the idea of holding an off-site INNOPROM exhibition in Saudi Arabia.
Our friends from the Republic of Belarus have previously proposed hosting the event, and INNOPROM will be held in Minsk for the first time in September 2025. I am confident that many Russian companies will take part in it. I invite all of you to join them there.
Today’s discussion concerns an extremely important issue of industrial breakthrough.
At the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, President Vladimir Putin stressed that the Russian economy must be more technologically advanced.
This is a serious challenge that requires consolidated efforts from education and research institutions, industrial enterprises, and other economic sectors, alongside involvement of the expert community, investors, state corporations, development institutions, relevant ministries, government agencies, and regional authorities.
I am absolutely convinced that through collective action we can achieve these objectives. Russian manufacturers’ success will certainly play a decisive role in this process.
Despite the unprecedented sanction scale, nearly all industrial sectors continue to demonstrate sustained growth. In particular, the processing industry has achieved 18 percent growth over the past three years, including 8.5 percent growth in the previous year alone.
These figures serve as the best response to those who initiated and imposed these anti-Russia bans and restrictions. On the contrary, the very countries that imposed these sanctions are now experiencing a serious industrial decline.
Importantly, Russia maintains a positive dynamic this year, even if at slightly moderate rates. During the January–May period, the processing sector recorded a production increase of slightly over 4 percent. Our full-year projection anticipates 3 percent growth.
This deceleration reflects necessary economic measures and need for more balanced decisions with respect to macroeconomic indicators, to prevent the economy from overheating and to contain inflation.
Despite tight monetary policies and higher borrowing costs, Russian businesses continue to expand capital investment.
Over the first quarter, capital investment volumes have reached almost 1.5 trillion roubles, which is 40 percent higher year-on-year.
A prime example is the spacious and comfortable five-car tram you have just seen, whose development was entirely funded by the manufacturer. This tram is the centrepiece of this year’s Innoprom. Production facilities are located in Tver, St Petersburg and Engels. This innovative transport solution will be launched imminently across Russian cities.
Almost all priority development areas in industrial production are included in the new national projects on technological leadership.
Unmanned aerial systems is a particularly effective industry.
Production of such equipment already exceeds targets by 200 percent, including thanks to the government support for enterprises developing new military and civilian models.
The exhibition showcases numerous prototypes — specifically, a heavy-duty amphibious UAV designed for cargo delivery to the most inaccessible regions. We have just inspected a helicopter that was the first in our country to receive full operational certification.
Naturally, we must maintain this high standard while pursuing even more ambitious goals.
Another seven national projects were launched on January 1. At the last Innoprom, I spoke in detail about the spheres they target, which are critical for the state.
They are primarily aimed at providing comprehensive support for a backbone industry – means of production and automation. Many of the latest developments were showcased at the Metalloobrabotka exhibition in Moscow this May, and today we saw even more examples of industrial robots. There are specific outcomes: the share of Russian machine tools and instruments has been growing over the past five years – though not as fast as needed – making it essential to ramp up efforts in this sector, as well as in other knowledge-intensive fields like space, nuclear, and energy industries. A separate block of measures focuses on new materials, small-scale chemical production, and rare earth metals. At this exhibition, we also had the chance to see some promising products in these areas.
In aircraft manufacturing, achieving full sovereignty is our unwavering priority, and we are making steady progress toward this goal. Two fully import-substituted Russian aircraft – the MC-21 and Superjet – are now in the final stages of certification, along with the regional jet Il-114. Today, we saw a prototype at Koltsovo Airport.
Work is also advancing on the Baikal aircraft for local airlines, alongside several other high-priority projects, including helicopters.
Plans are in place to deliver the first aircraft to airlines next year, fully equipped with systems, components, and engines of our own – of exclusively Russian design. These aircraft incorporate cutting-edge materials and the latest technologies – such as the PD-8 engine, which is also on display at the exhibition.
We expect the aviation industry to gain momentum, scaling up production to meet the growing demand for air travel in Russia.
In shipbuilding, our key priorities include building a merchant fleet, establishing facilities for large-tonnage vessel construction, and launching gas tanker production.
A major standalone objective is growing the nuclear icebreaker fleet, which is crucial for maintaining year-round navigation along the Northern Sea Route.
We are strengthening domestic partnerships, with over 30 Russian enterprises currently manufacturing approximately 100 types of mission-critical shipboard equipment.
In the automotive industry, our current priorities are centered on localising component production and broadening the range of available models. A recent example is the launch of the Lada Iskra, now in production in the Samara Region.
Our companies are also venturing into entirely new segments. For example, a passenger minivan is being unveiled here at Innoprom – its production commenced today in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Tatarstan.
Another important sector we are focusing on is technologies for medicine security.
Pharmaceutical companies are establishing domestic production of essential active ingredients and are working toward full-cycle manufacturing of the country’s core range of medicines.
We are also in the process of forming the ninth national project, focused on the bioeconomy. It will be finalised in the upcoming budget cycle. The objective is to develop a wide array of high value-added products derived from processing animal and plant-based raw materials, thereby eliminating reliance on imported equivalents.
I would like to highlight that we are ready to work together with our partners from friendly countries in each area. Russia welcomes joint investments, above all in high-tech sectors.
The new image of domestic industry is being shaped by the concrete achievements of thousands of enterprises, from innovative startups and small tech firms to leading industrial giants.
Behind these organisations are dedicated workforce — millions of professionals whose knowledge and expertise will determine how quickly we can master the production of essential components and equipment that we currently still procure from abroad.
Modernising industrial processes through advanced information technologies, including artificial intelligence, is of critical importance.
The exit of several foreign IT companies has, in fact, accelerated our transition to domestically developed application software. This effort is now supported by a network of 36 industrial competence centres.
The adoption rate of Russian software has almost reached 50 percent on average, which is over double of the pre-sanctions period level.
One of the most notable successes is in enterprise resource planning systems, where over 80 percent of the solutions in use are now domestically developed. This is the standard we aim to replicate across all segments.
Colleagues,
It is essential that we develop the most flexible industrial support system – one that remains balanced and fully aligned with the nation’s economic and fiscal priorities. This will demand some bold, unconventional solutions that deliver tangible results.
For Russian companies to compete globally, they require maximum available government support. However, being competitive here refers less to technological sophistication and more to product pricing – which can only be optimised through large-scale production.
This presents a significant challenge for emerging industries, particularly like certain segments of microelectronics and radio electronics. Yet addressing this challenge is essential for achieving a true industrial breakthrough. We must develop and implement targeted support mechanisms specifically to enable localisation of these high-tech products.
I request the Ministry of Industry and Trade and our other colleagues to draw up a list of priority product categories and develop the corresponding regulatory framework for this initiative. The implementation model must deliver dual benefits, strengthening both the real sector and the broader economy.
The number of such projects that strengthen technological sovereignty and make a significant contribution to the economy is growing.
For this, we continue programs to support research and development work. We develop modern infrastructure in the regions by creating industrial parks and technology parks. Today, a number of such parks and solutions were shown. In particular, a large project is from the Chelyabinsk region. We also help entrepreneurs in changing economic conditions to protect their funds that were invested in new projects through the mechanism of special investment contracts.
The Industrial Development Fund remains the cornerstone support mechanism for small and medium-sized enterprises. Over its
11 years of operation, the Fund has disbursed approximately 2,000 soft loans
totaling 650 billion rubles, facilitating the establishment or modernisation of more than 1,000 facilities nationwide. This year has seen some notable
achievements, including new plants for truck drive axle components in the Chelyabinsk Region, automotive body component production in Tatarstan, and production of CNC machine cutting tool blanks in St Petersburg. By year’s end,
Kaluga will open Russia’s first dialysis machine plant, with all medical
support equipment, components and consumables being fully domestic. These
projects not only ensure independence from foreign equipment but also guarantee
Russian patients access to high-quality treatment through domestic solutions.
Industrial mortgage is another efficient instrument. Small industrial businesses need it most. In the almost three years since its launch, you must remember, about 1,100 loans worth 117 billion roubles were issued on the President’s instructions. This will let build or renovate 5.5 million square metres of space.
And the introduction of marking as the key element in the traceability system made it possible to protect consumers and bona fide producers from dangerous and low-quality products and overt counterfeit.
Last year at Innoprom they talked about the first results of introducing the cluster investment platform. Over the past period it has become a meaningful mechanism for stimulating major priority projects intended to manufacture unique products and make it possible to support the initiatives that companies would not have possibly implemented themselves because of their length, complexity, high cost and low rate of return at the start.
At present, it already provides for implementing 52 projects worth about 1.1 trillion roubles. In particular, preferential loans were issued for construction here, in the Sverdlovsk Region, and trains for the first high-speed Moscow-St Petersburg railway. It is to become fully operational in 2028.
We have seen again now what the engine and the carriages would look like. We are expecting a real prototype soon. The stage of certification and tests should be reached within the next two years.
We also help in implementing other initiatives in transport engineering as well. Thus, the Bryansk and Kaluga regions began to produce mainline and shunting locomotives. The Moscow Region is working on renovating metro cars by replacing all the key component parts with similar Russia-made ones.
We have adopted a special decision on upgrading the agricultural machinery fleet in the regions. We have allocated an additional 10 billion roubles for the discount subsidy programme this year to stimulate projects for the manufacture of highly specialised machines.
As for municipal and road construction equipment, we are actively exploring market niches that used to be traditionally dominated by foreign manufacturers. A notable example is asphalt pavers, previously absent from our domestic production lines. Today, that gap has been filled: serial production of Russian-made asphalt paving machines was launched in Bryansk in May, and this equipment is already being used to build and repair regional highways.
These priorities are creating a strong demand for skilled professionals across the manufacturing sector.
We have updated our workforce projections and now estimate that civil industries will need to attract over 2.2 million more specialists by 2030. About two-thirds of this demand will be met by graduates with secondary vocational education.
In order to address this challenge, we are actively launching advanced engineering schools. So far, 50 such institutions have been established, in partnership with nearly 200 high-tech enterprises.
Furthermore, over 150 educational and industrial clusters are already operating under the Professionalitet programme across key sectors including mechanical engineering, light industry, forestry, metallurgy, radio electronics, and chemicals among others.
It is essential to further strengthen efforts aimed at promoting engineering and technical careers. This includes developing impactful career guidance programs for children, expanding industrial tourism, and introducing new initiatives that will help schoolchildren and students choose future careers in the industrial sector.
International professional skills competitions are attracting considerable interest among young people. I believe we should reimagine their format here in Russia to better align them with the future needs of industry.
For example, we can invite more partners from the Eurasian Economic Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, as well as countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East – regions where industrial potential is rapidly growing despite efforts by certain actors to hinder the development of a multipolar world.
Remarks by Mikhail Mishustin at the Technological Leadership: Industrial Breakthrough strategic session
Friends,
Innoprom is a valuable platform for discussing initiatives aimed at mutually beneficial cooperation, signing new agreements on the development of international partnerships and crafting tailored proposals for enhancing support mechanisms for major industrial projects.
I am confident that through joint efforts, we can achieve a true industrial breakthrough. By harnessing modern technologies, we will strengthen our nations and improve the quality of life for our people.
I wish you all fruitful discussions and great success.
