On July 4, 2011, an Innovations Day will be held at Ludinovsky Locomotive Plant based in Ludinovo, Kaluga Region. The agenda of the event covers the launch of Russia’s first gathering locomotive with a hybrid power unit called TEM9N SinaraHybrid. This locomotive has been developed by the engineering company Sinara Transport Vehicles with the support of Skolkovo Foundation and the President’s Committee for Modernization and Russia’s Technological Development.

Governor of Kaluga Region A. Artamonov, director of Russia’s Industry & Trade Ministry’s Basic Industrial Branches Department V. Semenov, Vice President of Russian Railways A. Vorotilkin, President of Sinara Group Dmitri Pumpyansky, and head of Skolkovo Energy-Efficient Technologies cluster E. Dyachenko will take part in the event.