The Prime Minister, together with the heads of delegations from the CIS Council of Heads of Government member states, toured the exhibition and addressed the plenary session entitled “A Union of New Technologies: Building the Industry of the Future.”
Participants in the CIS Heads of Government meeting visiting the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition. Left to right: Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Oljas Bektenov, Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kohir Rasulzoda, Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Chief of the Executive Office of the President of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliyev, Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin, and Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov
Participants in the CIS Heads of Government meeting visiting the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition. Left to right: Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Bakytzhan Sagintayev, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Oljas Bektenov, Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin
Participants in the CIS Heads of Government meeting visiting the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition. Left to right: Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Oljas Bektenov, Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin, Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Chief of the Executive Office of the President of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliyev, Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Ali Asadov, Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov, Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kohir Rasulzoda, Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin
Participants in the CIS Heads of Government meeting visiting the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition. Left to right: Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Oljas Bektenov, Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin, Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Chief of the Executive Office of the President of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliyev, Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Ali Asadov, Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov, Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin
Participants in the CIS Heads of Government meeting visiting the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition. Right to left: Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin, Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Chief of the Executive Office of the President of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliyev, Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Ali Asadov, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Oljas Bektenov, CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev, Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade of Iran Mohhamad Atabak, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Bakytzhan Sagintayev
Participants in the CIS Heads of Government meeting visiting the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition. Left to right: Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin, Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kohir Rasulzoda, Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin, Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Chief of the Executive Office of the President of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliyev, Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov
Participants in the CIS Heads of Government meeting visiting the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition. Left to right: Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Oljas Bektenov, Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Bakytzhan Sagintayev, Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Ali Asadov, Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov
Participants in the CIS Heads of Government meeting visiting the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition
Participants in the CIS Heads of Government meeting visiting the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition. Left to right: Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin, Minister of Industry, Mines and Trade of Iran Mohhamad Atabak, Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin, Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Chief of the Executive Office of the President of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliyev, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Oljas Bektenov
Mikhail Mishustin delivering remarks at the plenary session of the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin delivering remarks at the plenary session of the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition
Participants in the plenary session of the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition
Posing for a photograph: Heads of delegations participating in a tour of the Innoprom. Belarus exhibition
Participants in the CIS Heads of Government meeting visiting the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition. Left to right: Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Oljas Bektenov, Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kohir Rasulzoda, Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Chief of the Executive Office of the President of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliyev, Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin, and Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov
The Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition is being held from 29 September to 1 October at the Minsk International Exhibition Centre BelExpo.
The exhibition is organised by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Industry of the Republic of Belarus.
The exhibition features 138 stands, with participation from approximately 400 companies, including 281 Russian companies, 76 Belarusian companies, and 31 foreign companies (from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Malaysia).
The main sections of the exhibition are: mechanical engineering and components, metallurgy and materials, chemical industry, industrial IT, production automation, and industrial services.
Collective exhibitions will be presented by 23 Russian regions: Arkhangelsk Region, Vologda Region, Donetsk People’s Republic, Kirov Region, Krasnodar Territory, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Kurgan Region, Lugansk People’s Republic, Novosibirsk Region, Orel Region, Pskov Region, Republic of Tatarstan, Ryazan Region, Samara Region, Saint Petersburg, Sverdlovsk Region, Smolensk Region, Tomsk Region, Tula Region, Ulyanovsk Region, Udmurtian Republic, Chelyabinsk Region, and Yaroslavl Region.
Three national exhibitions will also be presented – from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
The business programme will include the main plenary session, as well as specialised sessions on artificial intelligence in industry, industrial cooperation, urban technologies, energy, and other topics.
Mikhail Mishustin’s remarks at the plenary session of the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition:
Friends, colleagues,
I would like to greet all participants of the Innoprom. Belarus International Industrial Exhibition.
This year, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of our main event in Yekaterinburg. Over this time, the practice of off-site exhibitions has also proven successful. Now, for the first time, we have gathered in hospitable Minsk. I am absolutely confident that hosting such a large-scale event will become a fine tradition for our Belarusian friends. It will strengthen dialogue between companies, investors, and government authorities.
In February next year, we plan to hold Innoprom in Saudi Arabia. Naturally, taking this opportunity, I invite everyone to attend.
Colleagues,
Today, we are talking about our industrial future and what it looks like.
The economic situation and the prosperity of the people depend on the most active modernisation of production capacities, the fastest possible development of promising markets, the introduction of cutting-edge technologies and engineering solutions.
Our own powerful national industrial base is among the pillars of national sovereignty. As instructed by the President of Russia, we are creating favourable conditions for its sustained development.
In January-August 2025, industrial production volumes soared by almost 1 percent. The processing sector grew by 3.2 percent. As usual, the machine-building sector that grew by almost 11 percent over the same period made a substantial contribution. First of all, this was made possible by the sector’s workers. I would like to take advantage of this opportunity and to congratulate them on their professional holiday, Machine-Builder’s Day, celebrated in many our countries on the last Sunday of September. And, of course, I would like to wish them further successes in the future.
We support efforts to open new production facilities and to modernise current ones across the country. As President of Russia Vladimir Putin has noted, this is a key to creating high-tech and well-paid jobs, boosting the incomes of Russian families and raising the prestige of blue-collar and engineering careers.
Since early 2025, the Kaluga Region launched the world’s largest automatic line for manufacturing wood-chip boards.
The Nizhny Novgorod Region has launched a unique national enterprise tat manufactures silica gels. Earlier, Russia didn’t make commercial amounts of this material at all.
The Ural region has launched batch production of a new model of industrial robots that can lift heavy loads weighing up to 45 kg. Until recently, our countries had a hard time manufacturing manipulator units. Robots assemble robots at this production facility.
A newly opened machine-building workshop will provide essential equipment for mining and metallurgical sector.
An electronic plant manufactures peripheral computer devices in the Rostov Region.
We have completed initial tests of an upgraded Russian-made electric locomotive with our own domestically manufactured units and components. This electric locomotive will contribute to more environmentally friendly railway traffic.
The pharmaceutical industry has also posted positive results. Russian scientists have developed the first unique medication for treating haemophilia at genetic level. Many other advanced medications, including those for treating blood cancer and tumours, are also nearing completion.
These are just a few examples.
The Government of the Russian Federation continues to do all that is necessary to expand the output of high-quality hi-tech products created on the basis of domestic scientific and engineering solutions and to strengthen our country’s industrial base. This task has been assigned to us by our President. In this context, we have started, as of this year, to implement the so-called national technological leadership projects, something that is being done on instructions from the head of state. In effect, these are plans of concrete actions to develop the most promising and strategically important areas of focus, including machine-tools and equipment, materials and chemistry, food, medicine, and power generation. The whole of transport: aviation, shipbuilding, car-making, railway engineering, and pilotless aerial systems. We are also focusing on space technologies and the bio-based economy.
There are already first results. The number of domestically produced vital and essential drugs has grown as has the range of medical products.
A fully import-substituted, serially produced Superjet made its maiden flight in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in early September.
Generally, these national projects are aimed at developing the main 21st-century technological sectors. They have the future opening before them. They are also the areas of focus, on which we should concentrate our interstate efforts.
Russia is active in building up interaction, including bilateral one. Russia and Belarus are pursuing a single industrial policy. A no-nonsense cooperation has been established within the Union State, specifically in machine-tool making, the automotive industry, the manufacture of agricultural machinery, and microelectronics. You have seen some examples of this cooperation at the exhibition today.
Russia and Kazakhstan have launched the production of mineral fertilisers, heat-insulating materials, auto-tyres, polypropylene, and polyethylene. We also cooperate in supplying, assembling and producing automobile and agricultural equipment.
Jointly with Kyrgyzstan, we are building a solar power plant. Plans include the development of a competence centre specialising in the maintenance and servicing of railway rolling stock.
In Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, we are introducing a mechanism for establishing industrial parks. Uzbekistan already has two well-functioning parks of this kind. We hope to start implementing the agreements signed with our friends from Tajikistan.
We are creating additional incentives for cooperation at the Eurasian Economic Union. Last June, we launched, with presidential support, a new mechanism of financial assistance for our industrial companies. I am referring to federal subsidies for loans to be used to finance joint initiatives involving businesses from three or more Eurasian Union countries.
Today, my colleagues and I said that it was necessary to make an inventory of all possible options for these industrial cooperation projects. We will be willing to consider them at our meetings in order to support them, including financially.
This year, two cooperation projects have been approved, with another ten or so bids under consideration. But this is not enough.
Profiting by this occasion, I want to invite businesses from states of the Five to be more active in using this opportunity and work together. I am absolutely sure that in cooperation we are able to build up and upgrade capacities. We are able to produce much needed products, gain independence from foreign suppliers, and, of course, help our national economies.
Friends, colleagues,
We have toured the exhibition and seen what has been achieved by our developers and producers. This is the result of both national policies and a constructive, fruitful cooperation.
It is important not to slow down and to strengthen cooperation in order to create a high-technology, competitive industry of the future and maximally tap the industrial potential of our states.
