The average value of the Urban Environment Quality Index in Russia for 2020 increased to 177 points

2 April 2021, Friday

The Ministry of Construction of Russia has published the results of the Urban Environment Quality Index for 2020. At the end of last year, 76 cities were able to reach the required Index mark for recognizing the environment as favourable. Thus, the total number of cities with a favourable urban environment reached 375, which is 18 cities more than it was planned to achieve according to the federal project "Formation of a comfortable urban environment". In 2020, the Index was calculated for 1116 Russian cities. At the same time, a comfortable urban environment was recorded in every third city - the share of such cities was 33.6%. By 2024, according to the federal project, there will be two times more of them: the target is 60% of cities with a favourable urban environment of the total. The growth of cities with a favourable environment in excess of the plan for 2020 was due to the following regions: Belgorod (+1 city), Voronezh (+1 city), Kaliningrad (+1 city), Kaluga (+2 cities), Leningrad (+1 city), Moscow (+2 city), Sverdlovsk (+1 city), Tula regions (+1 city), Nenets (+1 city), Khanty-Mansi (+1 city), Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs (+1 city), republics Adygea (+1 city), Bashkortostan (+1 city), Tatarstan (+3 cities).

One of the Index's criteria is the involvement of citizens in decision-making on issues of urban development. It is citizens who create a request for certain territories. The wide involvement of city dwellers in the processes related to improving the quality of the urban environment can have an impact on transformations according to any of the indicators. Therefore, in order to simplify and systematize the survey of citizens, to give Russians in all regions of the country the opportunity to take part in the improvement, in 2021 a federal rating platform for voting for improvement objects was launched. Voting will take place from April 26 to May 30 on the za.gorodsreda.ru platform. The territories and projects that receive the largest number of votes will be included in the improvement list for the current year. The country's cities vary in both size and climatic conditions. That is why, in the Index, they are divided into groups based on population and climate. Accordingly, it is possible to compare cities only within the framework of their size and climatic groups. More information about the Index results can be found here.

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