Mikhail Mishustin, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov and Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan - Chief of Staff of the Presidential Office of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliyev, took part in the work of the INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition. The heads of government viewed the exhibition and spoke at the main strategic session Industry 360: Manufacturing Unlimited.
Mikhail Mishustin’s remarks:
A joint photo session for heads of delegations prior to viewing the INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition. With Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov and Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan - Chief of Staff of the Presidential Office of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliyev
Mikhail Mishustin viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition. With Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations viewing the 16th INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition
Mikhail Mishustin speaks at the main strategic session Industry 360: Manufacturing Unlimited
Mikhail Mishustin speaks at the main strategic session Industry 360: Manufacturing Unlimited
Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan speaks at the main strategic session Industry 360: Manufacturing Unlimited
Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin speaks at the main strategic session Industry 360: Manufacturing Unlimited
Mikhail Mishustin and heads of delegations at the main strategic session Industry 360: Manufacturing Unlimited
Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan - Chief of Staff of the Presidential Office of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliyev speaking at the main strategic session Industry 360: Manufacturing Unlimited
Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov speaking at the main strategic session Industry 360: Manufacturing Unlimited
A joint photo session for heads of delegations prior to viewing the INNOPROM 2026 International Industrial Exhibition. With Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov and Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan - Chief of Staff of the Presidential Office of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliyev
The annual INNOPROM International Industrial Exhibition has been held in Yekaterinburg since 2010 and is the main industrial, commercial and export platform in Russia. The 16th INNOPROM International Industrial Exhibition is held on 6–9 July 2026 at the Yekaterinburg-Expo International Exhibition Centre. The theme of INNOPROM 2026 is Industry 360: Manufacturing Unlimited. The Republic of Indonesia whose companies’ stands occupy over 1,500 square metres of total exhibition space acts as the exhibition’s partner country. Apart from Indonesia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan showcase their national displays. Representatives of over 50 countries are expected to visit the exhibition. Total exhibition space is 50,000 square metres. Leading Russian industrial and technological companies are showcasing their innovative projects. A stand featuring innovative industrial projects of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade has been installed, and the country’s main industrial regions showcase collective displays of their enterprises and projects. The exhibition’s forum section includes 15 themed tracks and over 100 events involving representatives of business circles, government agencies, international organisations and the expert community. During the business programme, the participants will discuss the implementation of digital solutions in industry, technologies for cities, the development of robotics and industrial automation, the creation of a modern industrial infrastructure, urban environment and transport systems, the introduction of new energy technologies, as well as personnel training, financing, and international industrial cooperation. The plenary session Industry 360 will become a key event of the business programme.
Excerpt from the transcript:
Mikhail Mishustin speaks at the main strategic session Industry 360: Manufacturing Unlimited
Mikhail Mishustin: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, friends, colleagues.
I would like to warmly greet the participants and guests of Russia’s leading industrial exhibition. It is a great pleasure to welcome my distinguished colleagues, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Belarus Alexander Turchin, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Olzhas Bektenov, and Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliev.
This is the 16th INNOPROM exhibition which has become a landmark international platform for showcasing the most advanced technology. The critically important issues of key industrial sectors are traditionally discussed here on the hospitable land of the Urals. Our respective companies exchange best practices, conclude mutually beneficial contracts, and, most importantly, meet reliable business partners.
Today, we have here heads of major industrial enterprises, financial and investment entities, as well as representatives of industry associations, science and education, and, of course, our international partners. Everyone is resolved to engage in a direct and open dialogue in order to jointly find innovative approaches that will help overcome existing challenges and help further strengthen the real economy and make it as robust as possible relying on domestic solutions.
President Vladimir Putin underscored that Russia’s regions have a special role to play in ensuring the sovereignty of our vast country.
Importantly, they should attract investment, create new jobs, and advance the production, technological, and scientific sectors, as well as the urban environment.
Unsurprisingly, delegations from almost all Russian regions have come here. Many have their promising designs presented at exhibition stands. During our tour, we familiarised ourselves with some of them and visited engaging displays put together by our colleagues from Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
Our partners from other countries are also showcasing their technological achievements in Yekaterinburg. We are open to cooperation with everyone on an equal basis and based on mutual respect. We stand ready to expand business ties and build cooperation across a wide range of areas of interest.
Without a doubt, this format serves the interests of all sides and contributes to strengthening our respective national economies.
Everyone is aware of what I’m going to say but I will still say it: this year’s partner country of INNOPROM is the remarkable country of Indonesia, one of the fastest-growing global economies, the largest one in ASEAN, and an important member of BRICS. Last year, the Eurasian Economic Union signed a free trade agreement with Indonesia.
I would like to warmly welcome the delegation from that Republic led by Minister of Industry Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita.
We are committed to deepening bilateral relations.
Over the past five years, mutual trade has more than doubled. Our countries have strong potential to expand cooperation across many sectors.
We are particularly interested in joint development of various types of vessels and underwater robotic systems. Other areas include metallurgy, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and, of course, the most advanced digital technologies, including cybersecurity.
Russian companies can offer competitive solutions in industrial construction, modernisation of energy facilities, and the development of rail and maritime infrastructure to Indonesia and our other partners.
Training highly skilled workforce and academic and inter-university exchanges, which, taken together, form a long-term foundation for sustainable technological partnership, deserve special attention.
Russia’s manufacturing base boasts significant potential and resources to implement large-scale projects of any complexity level in conjunction with friendly states.
Amid unprecedented sanctions, we not only preserved but significantly reinforced our key industries. We have launched deep modernisation of enterprises and the construction of modern facilities across the country. This has been made possible through coordinated public/private efforts. Total investment in fixed capital amounted to around 24 trillion roubles over the past five-year period, with almost a third invested last year alone. These funds represent a major resource for continued transformation. It is now important to enter a new investment cycle as quickly as possible no later than next year.
We can now review preliminary results. I will give you a few figures. Growth in the manufacturing industry over the past three years reached almost 23 percent, which is, in fact, an outstanding result that we got despite headwinds coming from unfriendly countries. This achievement includes personal contributions of everyone in this audience, including those who work the machines, set up the equipment, develop algorithms for automated design systems, and analyse risks, as well as people from hundreds of other professions that shape the future of our country every day.
Without a doubt, the macroeconomic situation has been impacted. The pace of output growth has slowed. However, the mechanical engineering sector continues to significantly and positively contribute to the economy. In particular, over the first five months it grew by almost 8 percent. The main point is that overall upward momentum in manufacturing remains strong and by the end of the year growth is forecast at around 1 percent.
Industrial transformation is one of the key growth drivers that are set in motion by breakthrough digital technologies and solutions. They are blurring customary boundaries between industries and enabling unified end-to-end business processes that manage all stages of bringing products to market from design to selling finished products.
It is important to be proactive and place greater emphasis on building flexible production lines with the integration of automated systems and the use of artificial intelligence.
These innovations get implemented through nine technological leadership national projects that have been launched in the key sectors of the economy. At present, we are fine-tuning these strategic tools in order to streamline administrative procedures and to reduce companies’ administrative costs and make their interaction with the state easier.
The main goal of these large-scale initiatives is to establish the production of the manufacturing technologies using our own capacities for the majority of the most popular goods, thereby supplying the economy with high-quality domestic products in line with forecast demand.
Thousands of research teams, design bureaus, and enterprises are involved in addressing these highly complex tasks. It is essential to ensure the effectiveness of their joint work.
To this end, we are updating technological cooperation maps, which makes it possible for us to channel applied research towards the development of a specific list of critically needed components, parts, and technologies.
Russia is steadily building technological and industrial sovereignty to build a truly independent manufacturing industry. Successful cases of pilot projects reaching the stage of serial production and scaling-up are appearing across the board. Some of them were presented today at the exhibition, including power units for various purposes and modern medical equipment.
Last year, new manufacturing sites were launched in the chemical industry which is the backbone industry.
The Nizhny Novgorod Region now produces silica gels for use in a wide range of sectors, from pharmaceuticals to oil production. The Samara Region produces mastics and adhesives for the automotive industry. Bashkortostan makes a phenolic antioxidant used in the production of construction materials, rubber products, and many other goods.
Speaking of rare and rare-earth metals, a plant for germanium extraction has begun operations in the Primorye Territory. Speaking of the composite materials, key precursors and fabrics used in aviation, shipbuilding, rehabilitation technologies, and many other sectors are mass produced now.
Machine tool manufacturing — a fundamental and critically important industry for all our countries, Russia included, received a significant boost.
We are rapidly expanding the domestic developments. To this end, nine R&D projects have been launched covering the most complex types of equipment. Seven regional centres for industrial robotics have been built, with 23 more to go bringing the total number to 30.
We are also stepping up the introduction of additive technologies, which make it possible to implement unconventional engineering solutions. These include the method of electric arc layer-by-layer deposition, examples of which we saw today. This year, the largest-ever blank for a steam turbine used in the power sector was produced using this method.
3D printing capabilities are dramatically changing approaches to manufacturing components for a wide range of high-tech sectors, in particular aviation, where over the past several years we have covered a significant part of the difficult path towards technological independence.
In December, the medium-haul Tu-214 aircraft equipped entirely with Russian systems and components, passed certification. Deliveries to airlines will start next year.
A full set of tests has been completed for the Il-114 aircraft servicing regional and local routes. It has confirmed compliance with all requirements and standards. In the coming months, it is expected to enter service in the Arkhangelsk Region and then in the Far East.
The maiden flights of modernised light multipurpose helicopters Ansat and Ka-226T have taken place as well. For the first time, they took off using domestically produced engines which is a major achievement of engineers and designers, so let us support them. These aircraft can be useful in many parts of our vast and beautiful country, including the Arctic regions, and are also of interest to our foreign partners.
We have begun serial production of the PD-8 engine, whose design was carried out from day one using computer modelling techniques, which significantly reduced the development time. At present, a certain amount of work still remains on our flagship aircraft which is the upgraded Superjet and the latest MC-21. It is important to complete everything promptly in order to move to mass production. We are waiting for our designers to come up with results.
We are addressing highly complex tasks in shipbuilding, where we need to master technologies for producing the full range of critical components and, in the future, to ensure their maximum standardisation. In total, over the past year and the first half of this year, more than 150 vessels of various types, including fishing vessels, have been delivered which is above and beyond planned targets. In particular, in the Primorye Territory, the country’s first domestically built LNG carriers, named Alexei Kosygin and Konstantin Posyet, were constructed. Over the coming years, three more similar vessels will enter service. They meet the highest ice-class standards and are well suited for operation in harsh Arctic conditions.
At the design stage, some foreign systems were included. Now, to eliminate their use, work has begun on designing a fully Russian LNG carrier. In the future, it may form the basis of the cargo fleet on strategic Northern Sea Route corridors.
Developing high-speed rail services was among the key challenges of technological renewal in transport engineering. This major initiative is being implemented steadily. Here, in the Sverdlovsk Region, the production of truly unique electric trains is about to go live. A number of prototype components and assemblies have already been manufactured and were demonstrated today. The assembly of the first trainset will begin before the end of this year.
The pilot route will connect Moscow and St Petersburg. A large domestic order has been formed for the construction of the railway, including rails, reinforcement steel, bridge steel, and steel cables, totalling over 1 million tonnes.
More to be posted soon.
