Bogatye Saby, Tatarstan Republic, Volga Federal district, Russia

🇷🇺 Bogatye Saby (Богатые Сабы; Байлар Сабасы) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative centre of Sabinsky District in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the Saby River (Myosha's basin), 98 km (61 mi) from the republic's capital of Kazan.

History It was established during the Khanate of Kazan period. Bogatye Saby served as the district administrative centre since 1930. Urban-type settlement status was granted to it in 2004.

Geography: Administrative status Within the framework of administrative divisions, the urban-type settlement of Bogatye Saby serves as the administrative centre of Sabinsky District, of which it is a part. As a municipal division, Bogatye Saby, together with one rural locality (the village of Sredniye Saby), is incorporated within Sabinsky Municipal District as Bogatye Saby Urban Settlement.

Economy As of 1997, industrial enterprises in Bogatye Saby included a variety of companies serving agricultural needs. The nearest railway station is Shemordan on the Kazan–Agryz line, 22 km (14 mi) north of Bogatye Saby.

Economy: Industry The Sabinsky District has a well-developed industrial, transport and logistics infrastructure. The largest enterprises are the Shemordansky meat-packing plant, a fur factory and a grain-receiving enterprise, VAMIN-Saba - a branch of VAMIN-Tatarstan, and the Sabinsky forestry enterprise. On the territory of the region there is the Shemordanskoye linear production department of main gas pipelines.

As the largest forested area in Tatarstan covers some 22 938 hectares, it is little surprise that the largest enterprise in the region is "Sabinsky forestry”. The Leskhoz engages in forest management and restoration of indigenous spruce formations. In 2012, the Republican Forest Breeding and Seed Center was opened, where seedlings with a closed root system are grown, which increases plant survival to 99% and guarantees a high germination rate. In September 2020, the Tatar Federal Antimonopoly Service discovered a cartel conspiracy between the "Sabinsky forestry" and "Sabinsky forests" on state contracts that passed from 2016 to 2018, calculating the budget losses of the republic at about 0.5 billion rubles. An application for verification in 2019 was submitted by the Yabloko party, after analyzing the state purchases of the Ministry of Agriculture of Tatarstan in the indicated period.

One of the largest registered companies in the Sabinsky region was the air carrier VIM Airlines, which registered its legal address in Bogatye Saby in 2016. In 2018, the airline officially declared bankruptcy. Another large commercial organization is the Transit City fuel company, with a turnover that in 2018 amounted to 11.9 billion rubles. Another regional fuel trader, Likada Plus, with a turnover of 10.9 billion rubles in 2016–2017, declared bankruptcy in 2020. Other large companies in the Sabinsky district are mainly concentrated on agriculture, among them “Smart Engineering”, “Del-Trans-Agro” (revenue 5.7 billion), “Regavtotorg” (477 million), “Sabagro” (317 million), "Tatmit Agro" and others.

Agriculture The Sabinsky district is oriented towards agriculture. Agricultural land occupies more than 60 thousand hectares, of which 55 thousand hectares is arable land, this amounts to only 1.78% of all the arable land in Tatarstan, yet from it the region provides 2.53% of national revenue. Winter rye, spring wheat, oats, barley, peas, potatoes, and flax are cultivated in the district. Additionally, meat and dairy cattle breeding, sheep breeding, and pig farming have been the subjects of active development in the region.

In 2016, the Kaymak cooperative built a dairy plant in the Sabinsky district at the expense of the Ministry of Agriculture of Tatarstan with funds allocated under the program “Development of agricultural consumer cooperation in the Republic of Tatarstan”. As of 2020, the plant processes about 4 tons of milk per day from more than 200 shareholders of the cooperative.

In January 2020, a high-tech dairy complex "Shinar" was opened in the Sabinsky district with buildings for more than 1,500 livestock of cows of different ages, where animals are cared for completely, the plant is fully automated.

Investment potential

The area is home to many large companies engaged in several business areas - from grain and fuel trading, to the construction of football stadiums and developers of transport systems. As for 2020, over 500 legal entities and individual entrepreneurs are registered in Bogatye Saby, 970 were registered within the Sabinsky district.

In May 2020, the construction of the industrial park "Saba" was completed in Bogatye Saby - the first such site in the countryside. The park was created within the framework of the national project "Small and Medium Enterprises and Support for Entrepreneurial Initiatives" and the federal "Acceleration of Small and Medium Enterprises", along with an allocation of 307.2 million rubles from the federal and republican budgets and the attraction of more than 77 in million private investments. The total area of industrial premises of the park is 3500 m2. As of November 2020, there were 4 residents in the park, and cooperation agreements have been signed with 5 more enterprises. The project involves expanding the list of residents to 22 and creating 500 jobs by 2024.

In 2020, the leadership of the Sabinsky district announced plans to create a food cluster in the area - a special platform for marketing vegetables, meat, milk, and grain produced in the republic. A plot of 10 hectares has been allocated for its implementation, two of which will be occupied by an indoor agro-industrial park while food processing facilities will be constructed on the remaining.

Transport The Moscow - Kazan - Yekaterinburg railway line runs in the north of the district connecting to stations and platforms (from Kazan): Mindyush (pl.), Shemordan (st.), Ishtugan (st.).

There are republic motorways in the district, such as Kazan - Tyulyachi - Bogatye Saby (20 km from the village of Bogatye Saby) - Kukmor - Izhevsk and Kazan - Tyulyachi - Mamadysh - Naberezhnye Chelny - Ufa with access to federal highways.

In 2020, a major overhaul of a section of the regional road Satyshevo - Bogatye Saby began, which is planned to be completed by 2021. A new bridge was also built across the Mesha River on the Timershik - Kzyl-Mesha highway, connecting the Kyzyl-Mesha settlement with the Timershik and Kuyuk villages.