Leningrad Region welcomes repatriates

Leningrad Region extends the implementation of measures and support measures provided for by the core activities included in the subprogram “Assistance with voluntary relocation to Leningrad Region” to repatriates who have received the status of a participant (or a family member of a participant) in the State Programme to Assist the Voluntary Resettlement to the Russian Federation of Compatriots Living Abroad.

Core Activity 1: “Creating legal, organizational, socioeconomic and informational conditions conducive to the voluntary resettlement of compatriots living abroad to Leningrad Region for permanent residence and their rapid integration into the region’s employment and social networks.”

Information, advisory, legal and other services will be provided to subprogram participants and their family members.

Core Activity 2: “Creating conditions for the adaptation and integration of subprogram participants and their family members into the host community, providing them with social support measures and state and municipal services, and assisting with housing arrangements, including the provision of medical care.”

The activity provides for: 
- provision of medical care, funded by the Leningrad Region regional budget, to subprogram participants and their family members in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation (until they obtain compulsory medical insurance policies, participants and their family members receive medical care under the territorial programme of state guarantees for the free provision of medical care to citizens. This includes emergency and specialized emergency care, urgent and emergency medical care in state medical organizations, and other types of emergency medical care for sudden acute illnesses, conditions, or exacerbations of chronic diseases that pose a threat to the patient’s life).
- Provision of social services in the form of social care at home, in semi-residential or residential settings, in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.
- Providing places in educational institutions for the children of subprogram participants.
- Assisting subprogram participants with housing arrangements.

Core Activity 3: “Assisting with the employment of compatriots resettling to Leningrad Region.”

The activity provides for:
- organizing career guidance for citizens to help them choose a field of activity (profession), find employment, undergo vocational training and obtain additional professional education; 
- social adaptation in the labor market; 
- psychological support; 
- vocational training and additional professional education; 
- conducting paid public works; 
- job and training fairs; 
- assistance in finding suitable work; 
- assessing whether participants and their family members meet qualification requirements to improve their competitiveness in the labor market;
- providing subprogram participants with advisory, informational and training support on business creation.

Core Activity 4: “Attracting talented young people to study at educational institutions located in Leningrad Region.”

The activity provides for:
- enabling children among compatriots being resettled to participate in academic competitions in order to identify talented young people and attract them to study at educational institutions in Leningrad Region;
- using the capabilities of 11 multidisciplinary resource centers established in the region at vocational educational institutions subordinate to the Leningrad Region Committee for General and Vocational Education, to train skilled workers and specialists, including young people.

More details here.

Leningrad Region resettlement group

Leningrad Region resettlement group