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Primorye’s Governor Sergei Darkin has endorsed architectural plans for a business center for the 2012 APEC summit, which is to be held in Vladivostok. The design came off the drawing boards of the St. Petersburg-based Research and Design Institute for the Elaboration of Master Plans and Urban Development.

A complex of buildings for high-level official meetings and several hotels is planned for Russky Island, as well as the entire summit infrastructure, such as roads, electricity and heat supply lines, a press statement from Darkin’s office reported Tuesday.

According to the concept, the principal buildings will be erected for the summit on Russky Island near the Bay of Ayaks and also in the area of the Bay of Patrokl. A conference centre, a press centre, an exhibition centre, and a cluster of five- and three-star hotels will be built next to Patrokl Bay. The Primorye Aquarium will also be situated there.



The next stage of preparations for the 2012 APEC summit will be the architectural designing of all the necessary structures, buildings and bridges. Their actual construction will begin in 2008.

The document envisages the construction of two bridges: one to link the island to the mainland part of the city in the Patrokl District, and the second to connect the central part of Vladivostok with Churkin Peninsula, spanning the Zolotoi Rog Bay.

Some 140 billion rubles ($5.6 billion) will be needed to design and erect all the buildings for the summit. 100 billion rubles are expected from the Federal Budget in keeping with the Federal Target Program to Develop the Far East and the Trans-Baikal Region. The rest is supposed to come from private investors.

The approved concept presupposes that after the summit Russky Island will be turned into a new administrative and business centre for Vladivostok, changing the townscape beyond recognition.

In addition to the structures, needed by the summit, the territorial administration is planning to settle by 2012 the problem of improving and developing the public utilities system of Vladivostok.