“We agreed with all the banks so that those who took loans would have a vacation, restructure for 1 year and reduce the lending rate to the minimum,” TASS quotes Levchenko.

According to him, banks will work individually with each entrepreneur to provide the most comfortable conditions.

In addition, businessmen will be allocated land on preferential terms.

“If we resettled part of the city, then the business should move there,” the governor explained.

Earlier, Rospotrebnadzor described the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the flooded areas of the Irkutsk Region as stable.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko called on the authorities of the region to gain courage and resolve the issue with the assessment of shelter damaged by floods.