The large scale factory complex of one of the Soviet Union’s largest tractor plants will be reborn as a “Ukrainian Silicon Valley”

The large scale factory complex of one of the Soviet Union’s largest tractor plants will be reborn as a “Ukrainian Silicon Valley” under a proposal by Oleksander Yaroslavsky, Kharkiv’s leading industrialist. The Kharkiv Tractor Plant, producer of 3 million tractors, would be reborn as ‘Ecopolis KhTZ,” a high-tech business park under a plan presented yesterday to the Kharkiv City Council. “The best international architects and commercial consultants are already working with us,” said Vitaliy Barannikov, Ecopolis director from Yaroslavsky’s DCH Group. Noting that Belarus companies will be invited to move there, he said: “We plan to create a full cycle for the implementation of high-tech projects – education, development, their introduction into production.”