The Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra is located in the middle part of Russia and the Eurasian continent. From west to east, the territory of the region extends for 1400 km from the eastern slopes of the Northern Urals almost to the banks of the Yenisei.

Ugra is the main oil and gas-bearing region of the country and one of the largest oil-producing regions in the world, belongs to the donor regions of Russia and leads in a number of key economic indicators.

The areas of priority investment projects include:

• oil and gas production;
• agro-industrial complex;
• improving environmental safety;
• housing and communal complex;
• timber industry complex;
• machine-building production;
• transport complex;
• oil and gas processing;
• electric power industry;
• mining and industrial complex;
• information and telecommunications complex.