This document summarizes key information about a region in northwestern Ukraine. It has a population of 1.2 million people within an area of 20,100 square kilometers. The average salary is $250. The region has an excellent location with major transportation routes and proximity to European borders. It also has a dynamic growing economy with industry growth of 12.2% and considerable foreign direct investment inflows. The region is considered one of the most cost effective locations for investment in Europe

2. Location: north-western part of Ukraine
Area: 20,1 thousand sq. km
Population: 1,2 million
Average salary: 250 $
Excellent location
• Distances: 140 km to the EU border, 250 km to Kyiv
• Motorways: Berlin-Kyiv, Baltic Sea-Black Sea, Kyiv-Chop
• Railways: Warsaw-Kyiv, Kyiv-Chop, Lviv-St. Petersburg
Dynamic and growing economy
• Industry growth rate: 12,2%
• Considerable FDI inflow
(40% growth yoy)
Cost effective investment*
• The Most Cost Effective Location
in Europe 2011/12
• The Region of the Future in Western CIS
*FDI Magazine (Financial Times)

3. Saint Gobain Glassware
France
Dyckerhoff Building materials
Germany
Lafarge Building materials
France
AES Corp. Electricity
USA
H+H International Building materials
Denmark
Sorbes Group Woodwork
Switzerland
Fapomed Product and The volume of foreign
Portugal medicine direct investment in the
ODEK Veneer region is about $ 300
Netherlands production million

4. More than 600 deposits of 18
kinds of minerals:
• Amber - unique deposits
in Ukraine
• Basalt - unique deposits
• Turf - 150 million tons or
20% of the national reserve
Land resources - 21.1 • Granular phosphorite - 5
thousand square km. million tons
• Substantial deposits of
48.3 % - plough-land mineral waters
39.9 % - woods
The region is rich in
timber resources which
are estimated at 112.8
million cubic meters

6. Location:
• Along the route Rivne-Stolin
• 15 km to Rivne
(population of 250,000)
• 10 km to Kostopil
(population of 30,000)
Area: 145 hа
Distance to the airport: 18 km
Realization period: 2012-2015
Estimated investment volume:
5 million EUR

7. General information
 Company name: Regional Public Company
“International Airport “Rivne”
 Form of property: public property of Rivne
regional council
 Number of employees: 130
Technical characteristics
 Total area of the airport: 166 ha
 Length of the runway: 2626 m
 Width of the runway: 42 m
 Maximum load: 210 t
Additional opportunities
 Airport capacity: 2000 passengers per day
or 76 domestic flights
 Goods traffic capacity : 100 t per day

8. The longest in Europe operating
narrow-gauge railway of “Antonivka-Zarichne”
Castle of Lyubomyrskykh (Dubno)
Tarakanivsky fort – erected to protect the
border between the Russian Empire and the
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Castle of Ostrozkykh (Ostroh)
Ostroh Greco-Latin school of higher type.
Founded in 1576
The preserve “The Berestechko Battlefield”
Palace band of counts of Valevskykh

9. Rivne Regional State Administration Department of Economy
Development and Trade
Email: rivneinvest@gmail.com Website: www.investmap.rv.ua
Теl. :+38 (0362) 695-216