Infrastructure projects as a factor of optimizing the regions’ investment processes

The development of the infrastructure, which determines the level of the investment and business activity in the regions, is the most effectively implemented through the public-private partnership (PPP) projects. The main areas of PPP projects in the Russian regions are the social and communal-energy infrastructure. Number of PPP projects increases in the information and communications infrastructure. The factors are identified that limit the growth of PPP projects in the IT infrastructure. Project finance is an effective method of attracting investments for the implementation PPP projects in the Russian regions. Project finance allows to optimize the project risk management system, the mechanism of private investment recovery. The measures are proposed to improve the management of PPP infrastructure projects at the regional level.