Chairman of SKB-Bank Mikhail Khodorovskiy took part in the interdepartmental meeting chaired by First Deputy Head of Government Dmitry Medvedev. The agenda of the meeting (held in Tyumen) covered issues related to the top priority national project known as Affordable and Comfortable Housing to Russian Citizens and its implementation in Ural Federal District. The meeting was attended by Governors of all the regions within the district and by mayors of all the major cities. SKB-Bank acted as the representative of Sverdlovsk Region’s banking community that does its share of work through mortgage lending.

SKB-Bank issued its first loan in November 2003 and has provided its customers with more than 4,500 mortgages worth over 4 billion RUR since. The bank keeps reaching out to more and more parts of the country and now offers loans to people living in the north of Tyumen Region, in Perm Territory, and in Chelyabinsk, Rostov, and Volgograd Regions.