Why Novogrudok district?
location and climatic conditions
natural resources
human resources, education
infrastructure
history and culture, tourism potential
operating industries
macroeconomic indicators of the district
entrepreneurship
preferences FEZ
preferences small and medium-sized cities
preferences investment agreement
renewable energy
sources international cooperation
Location
Novogrudok district occupies about 7% of the territory of the Grodno region. The center of the district is the city of Novogrudok, located 150 km from Minsk and 162 km from Grodno. The highways of republican significance Baranovichi – Novogrudok ‑Ivye, Lyubcha – Novogrudok ‑ Dyatlovo, Porechany – Novogrudok – Nesvizh pass through the district.
The nearest railway station is located in the urban village of Novoelnya and is located 22 km from the city (9 km from the district border).
The surface of the area is large-hilly, the prevailing altitude is from 120 to 150 m above the Baltic Sea level. The climate is temperate continental, the average temperature in winter is -5 °C, in summer - +16 °C. An average of 769 mm of precipitation falls per year. The vegetative period is 188 days.
NATURAL RESOURCES
Forests cover 38% of the district's territory. The total area of forest lands is about 70 thousand hectares. The largest woodlands are the Neman forests, as well as woodlands that are part of Nalibokskaya and Grafskaya Forests. There are pine forests, less often spruce forests. Hornbeam, beech, maple, birch are most often found among deciduous trees. The forest lands are inhabited by elk, wild boar, deer and roe deer.
The total area of agricultural land is about 68 thousand hectares, of which 40 thousand hectares are arable land, 28 thousand hectares are meadow lands. According to the soil structure, 60% is occupied by sod-podzolic soils, 20% ‑ peat-swamp and floodplain soils, 10% ‑ turf and sod-swamp soils. According to the mineral composition, more than 50% of the soils are loamy, about 30% are sandy loam, and about 20% are sandy soils. The qualitative assessment of arable land is 33.3 points, of all farmland ‑ 28.9 points.
The Neman River and about 50 small rivers flow through the territory of the district, there are large lakes Svityaz, Chereshlya, Litovka and a Waterfall.
The subsoil of the area contains minerals. There are 5 industrial and 12 on-farm quarries for the extraction of sand and gravel mixture and construction sand, one land plot for peat extraction and one land plot for sapropel extraction, three clay and loam deposits for coarse ceramics, one chalk deposit.
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
The International Technical Assistance project "YES to the Agreement" ("DACO") (the EU and Energy Charter project) was completed in July 2014. According to this project, solar vacuum collectors for heating water in the pool were installed in the Kindergarten No. 10 in Novogrudok, 140 square meters of windows were replaced with plastic double-glazed windows. The pool started functioning on June 1, 2014. The total amount of investments amounted to 54 thousand euros. The total savings from the implemented measures amounted to 5.4 tons of CU or 1,350 US dollars per year.
The UNDP small grants project "Implementation of energy-efficient street consecration technologies in the town of Lyubcha, Novogrudok district" was completed in 2015. Within the framework of this project, 49.4 thousand US dollars were allocated and 150 lamps were replaced with energy-efficient ones (mercury with LED), lamps with autonomous energy sources were installed at three busy intersections. Pedestrian crossings are illuminated throughout the night. Solar panels and energy storage devices are installed for this purpose. The use of new equipment has led to a decrease in street energy consumption by more than 1.5 times, and the illumination of the streets of Lyubcha has doubled. In addition, CO2 emissions have decreased by more than 4 tons per year.
The project "Supply of equipment for renewable electricity and integrated waste management to support regional development in Belarus", main financing ‑ the European Union, implementation ‑ Novogrudok RUP housing and communal services in the form of the project "Supply of equipment for a demonstration project in Novogrudok for sorting solid household waste".
The aim of the project is to solve the problem of environmentally friendly development of small towns in Belarus, optimize logistics to reduce the cost of garbage collection and removal, as well as generate additional income from the disposal of certain fractions of MSW, introduce a modern waste management culture, increase the volume of recoverable secondary material resources.
The Belarusian side has carried out construction and installation works: a sorting line has been installed, a packing warehouse has been built, landscaping has been carried out, a weighing and administrative complex has been built, as well as engineering infrastructure. 49 thousand US dollars were spent. The project also attracted funds from the operator of secondary material resources in the amount of 37 thousand US dollars.
The European Union has supplied technological equipment that provides collection processes and separate technological processes for sorting municipal waste (equipment for a garbage sorting line, garbage containers – 200 pcs., containers with a volume of 30 cubic meters – 8 units, a forklift with a multifunctional bucket, a multifunctional garbage truck – 2 units, a container trailer – 2 units, garbage trucks – 2 units, scales, etc.) in the amount of 779 thousand euros. 15 new jobs were created at the station.
The UNDP project "Assistance to the transition of the Republic of Belarus to a "green" economy", implemented on the basis of the GPU "Republican Landscape Reserve "Svityazyansky" was completed in 2017. The main objective of the project was to reduce the anthropogenic load on the reserve.
The total amount of the project, including co–financing, is 176 thousand US dollars, including 95 thousand US dollars from UNDP. Within the framework of the project, a Business plan for the development of ecotourism and the information center of the reserve was developed and approved, a Strategy for the development of ecotourism and marketing in the Svityazyansky reserve, and a Management Plan for the Republican Svityazyansky Landscape Reserve were developed and approved.
Work has also been carried out on the development of the reserve's infrastructure: a phytoclub building has been built, thematic sites have been decorated: "City of Masters", "Mermaid Playground", "Fabulous Playground", "Spider Parking Lot", "Wish Tree" and others. The salon-shop of decorative and applied art products, as well as workshops on various types of applied art, has been established.
the project "Development of renewable energy sources in Novogrudok district – Roadmap for an ecologically clean territory"
project "Belarus: Support for green urban development in small and medium-sized cities of Belarus"
The project "Building capacity for the complete disposal of solid household waste for the sustainable development of 4 districts of the Grodno region, with the introduction of a public-private partnership initiative and the development of educational programs for educational institutions and the population." The grant amount is 739 thousand euros. The project is being implemented on the territory of 4 districts of the Grodno region - Novogrudok, Korelichsky, Dyatlovsky and Ivyevsky, and provides for partial recycling of municipal solid waste.