The volume of investments in the creation of a quantum cluster in Moscow will amount to 6.5 billion rubles

In Moscow, based on the infrastructure of the innovation center “Skolkovo» a quantum cluster will be created, the volume of investments in the implementation of the project will amount to 6.5 billion rubles, informed mayor of the capital Sergey Sobyanin in his Telegram channel.

Sobyanin announced the corresponding decision during the plenary session of the Future Technologies Forum, which was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“The new cluster will house laboratories, scientific groups of the Russian Quantum Center, start-ups and small-scale production of quantum products,” the mayor specified.

In general, quantum technologies are used in the automotive, pharmaceutical and medical industries, aircraft and rocket building, microelectronics, agriculture and information technology, Sobyanin added.

As the mayor explained, the creation of a cluster in the capital is the main point of the agreement signed by the capital administration with Rosatom and the Russian Quantum Center. The signing took place within the framework of the forum.