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Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin visited year-round fair on the ulitsa starokachalovskaya street in North Butovo and congratulated with their professional holiday — Day of trade.

the Capital’s trade has recovered after the restrictive measures imposed to combat the spread of the new coronavirus infection. Many citizens avoid visiting major shopping centres, giving preference to the online stores and convenience stores.

year-Round fair in Northern Butovo was opened in December last year. Earlier this place was the regional fair, the shelves were located in unheated arched awning tents.

Now trade is conducted in semi-permanent pavilion in the Empire style with an area of 708 square meters. It is designed for 30 seats ten for fruit and vegetables, ten for meat and dairy products, four fish, six for the confectionery, grocery and dried fruits. There is also a small cafe.

the Pavilion is assembled from pre-fabricated structures, equipped with systems of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning. Refrigerators for food storage. If necessary, the pavilion can be disassembled quickly and use the ground for other purposes.

On the shelves of goods from Moscow, Voronezh, Moscow, Ryazan, Smolensk and Tambov oblasts, Primorsky Krai, the Chuvash Republic, and Kazakhstan.

Customers can purchase the products of the plant “Akinmola”, far Eastern fish processing plant, the Cheboksary meat-packing plant, Egorievsk poultry farm, Mozhaisk milk factory, and the products of personal subsidiary farm of A. A. Kushch and peasant (farmer) farms O. A. Orphans and A. Burkova.

the Fair is open from 09:00 to 20:00 six days a week, sanitary day — Monday.

From 2016 in the capital opened a 26 year-round fairs the new format. By the end of this year, plans to open another ten in different areas of the city. In Moscow, also operates 88 of fairs of the day (in this season they earned from June 5) and four regional.

In all Metropolitan fairs of the goods of about four thousand farmers and entrepreneurs from more than 40 regions of Russia as well as Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia. Last year, these sites have sold more than 50 thousand tons of agricultural products.

At the initial stage of propagation COVID-19, in mid-March, there was an increased demand for commodities. The capital of the enterprise to quickly deliver these products to stores and to increase its stocks in warehouses and distribution centers.

the Department of trade and services of Moscow every day aboutled monitoring of prices and stock of essential commodities in online stores. Oversaw sales, purchasing activity of the citizens. Special attention was paid to how the stores comply with established epidemiologic limitations: social distancing, wearing masks and gloves. Video cameras four thousand stores and 20 distribution centers were integrated into the urban surveillance system.

the Moscow city Government is providing anti-crisis support to the enterprises of trade as one of the affected industries. Among the measures taken:

— grace period for property tax, land tax for the first quarter of 2020. This benefit is already used 3480 organizations;

— the deferred payment of trading fees for the first quarter of 2020. This benefit is already used by 25,9 thousands of organizations (72,3 thousand trading objects);

— the exemption from the advance payments for the right on commercial activity in kiosks Print. Have used benefit five organizations;

— exemption from payments for the lease of city property at the time of suspension of activities. This opportunity was used by the 187 organizations;

— reduce by 50 percent the fees for small and medium business under contracts concluded with the Moscow metro, for the placement of non-stationary trade object and the trade in it. Benefit have used 192 of the organization;

— full exemption from payment at the time of suspension of the activities of small and medium-sized businesses on contracts for the accommodation of non-stationary trade object and the trade in it. Have used 343 of the organization.

in addition, trade enterprises can obtain support in the form of lower rental costs in shopping malls. In this case, the owners of shopping centers will be exempt from paying property tax.

Trade is one of the key sectors of Moscow’s economy. In the city operates 65 thousand commercial enterprises. In 2018, the share of wholesale and retail trade in the gross regional product of Moscow amounted to 28.6 percent (5.1 trillion rubles).

last year, the trade sector created about 1.49 million jobs.