Digital Tools Are Adding Billions to Russian Companies’ Revenues
A regional analysis in Siberia shows that IT-driven productivity gains have translated into billions of rubles in additional revenue for large industrial firms.
Digital technologies are delivering measurable financial returns for Russian industry. According to the government of the Novosibirsk Region, the introduction of IT tools helped boost the combined revenue of 206 of the region’s largest enterprises by 1.5 billion rubles over five years, Governor Andrey Travnikov said.
The figures were presented as part of an assessment of how digital solutions are affecting industrial efficiency, logistics, and production planning across the region.
Productivity, Powered by Software
Travnikov noted that the Novosibirsk Region is currently the only one in Russia to integrate digital solutions directly into its participation in the national “Productivity of Labor” program. The initiative is a government-backed consulting effort designed to improve business efficiency.
Under the program, experts help companies reorganize logistics, improve equipment utilization, and reduce downtime. Digital tools play a key role in that process—supporting real-time monitoring, planning, and optimization of production workflows.
Travnikov also called on IT companies to develop standardized digital solutions that could be rolled out not just to individual factories, but across entire industries.
A Growing IT Hub
Much of that capacity is concentrated in Novosibirsk itself. The city is home to a major IT hub that opened in 2017 and now employs around 350 developers, analysts, and engineers working across multiple technology domains.
More broadly, the Novosibirsk Region has over 3,000 registered IT companies. They build tools not only for private industry, but also for the public sector—including a government service chatbot known as “Nikolai,” voice-input systems for doctors, and intelligent digital assistants for civil servants.
Taken together, the data points to a shift in how regional economies measure digital transformation. In Novosibirsk, software isn’t framed as an abstract innovation goal—it’s tracked in concrete outcomes, from fewer production bottlenecks to revenue growth measured in billions.
