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About 3,000 compatriots used resettlement program to move to Tomsk region

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About 3,000 compatriots used resettlement program to move to Tomsk region


03.01.2024


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More than 3,000 compatriots have returned to the Tomsk region during the eight years of the existence of the resettlement program, Tomsk reports.

The regional administration noted that these are mostly highly qualified personnel that the region’s economy needs. 50% of migrants come to the region from Kazakhstan. 217 people moved to the region in 2022, almost three-quarters of whom have higher education degrees. Over the past year, 80 compatriots returned to the Tomsk region.

Among the compatriots who moved to the Tomsk region are designers, constructors, programmers, power engineers, teachers of physics, history, music, English and German, teachers at colleges, universities and doctors. 

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