Growth in the industry amounted to 29.9%, in agriculture - 8.7%, the volume of services increased by 59.9%, retail trade turnover increased by 18.2%.

As a result of works on modernization of production, their technical and technological advance, direct investments coming into the region’s economy, increased over the same period last year to 39.9%. About 26 projects for the technological upgrading of enterprises carried out in various sectors of the economy.

Production of 43 new products entered the localization programme established. In order to increase the level of employment there were created 65 thousand new jobs.