2005 - 2006 - Pinsent Masons Water Yearbook 2012

THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION PART 2: COUNTRY ANALYSIS
JSC Russian Communal Investments (RKI) is a subsidiary of Bazovyi Element, a Russian
manufacturing conglomerate. RKI operates in Nizhnii Novgorod Oblast and some cities of Irkutsk
Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai and Buriatia.
CES – MULTYENERGETIKA has 45 contracts: Sverdlovsk Region: 27 municipal districts, plus 22
cities and towns, including: Kachkanar, Verkhnij Tagil and Nizhnij Tagil, Kamens-Uralskij and
Pervouralsk; Komi Republic: Syktyvkar and; Perm Region: Solikamsk, Berezniki, Tchaikovsky,
Krasnokamsk, Kungur, Kizel, Vereshchagino, Chusovoi, Ocher, Gornozavodsk, Gremiachinsk,
Suksun.
Novogor-Prikamye (New Urban Infrastructure of Prikamye) was set up by Interros in December
2003. It took over the water utility of Perm (1,096,100 people) and now implements the programme
that was originally developed for an EBRD project in the city. The lease runs to 2020, and contains
2,420 separate water supply and drainage agreements: 9 with communal services of the City of Perm;
with private houses owners, 556 with residential co-ops; 153 with state-owned federal enterprises and
organisations; 564 with state-owned municipal enterprises and organisations; 1,094 with commercial
companies and 37 with other types of consumers. In 2005, NP took over Perm’s wastewater
treatment works (secondary standard), which covers 95% of the city, and gained a 49 year lease for
operating Perm’s water channel, linked with R750 million to be invested in refurbishing the channel
and the city’s water and sewerage infrastructure by 2010. Novogor-Prikamye gained the tender for
wastewater systems engineering in Berezniki (population 201,800) in 2004, and the contract will start
in 2005. This is the first time in Russia that the entire sewerage system of a big municipal unit will
be leased to a private company.
Alfa Eco’s Rosvodokanal is a subsidiary of Alpha, a financial services company. Rosvodokanal
seeks to operate in cities where Alpha has industrial activities (oil and metal). Orenburg Vodokanal
Ltd has a lease serving 487,000 people in Orenburg for water and sewerage. Since 2003, revenues
have increased by 16% with the collection rate increasing from 85% to 97%, while water losses
distribution fell from 27% to 21%
Syzran Vodokanal gained a five year management contract in 2001 for the Syzran Municipality and
Syzran district, serving 162,668 people for water and 120,986 for sewerage. Since 2001, bill
collection has increased from 80% to 93% while 24 hour water availability has become the norm. In
this case, it appears that the municipal utility has been privatised on its own.
MAJOR CITIES
City 2000 2015 Status
Moscow 8,367,000 8,141,000 Three wastewater contracts
St Petersburg 4,635,000 4,488,000 Contracts under consideration
Omsk 1,174,000 1,187,000 N/A
Novosibirsk 1,321,000 1,276,000 N/A
Ekateringburg 1,218,000 1,162,000 N/A
Samara 1,132,000 1,083,000 N/A
Perm 991,000 952,000 Novogor-Prikamye
Chelyabinsk 1,045,000 1,088,000 N/A
Ufa 1,102,000 1,110,000 N/A
Kazan 1,137,000 1,140,000 N/A
Rostov-On-Don 1,012,000 1,009,000 N/A
Volgograd 1,000,000 1,000,000 RUS
Krasnoyarsk 840,000 811,000 RKI
Saratov 881,000 871,000 N/A
Tolyatti 771,000 899,000 N/A
Ulyanovsk 864,000 1,144,000 N/A
Voronezh 918,000 934,000 Alfa Eco
171 Pinsent Masons Water Yearbook 2005 – 2006