State support mechanisms for investment projects in Russia: range of instruments and current state

National development aims of the Russian Federation are possible to achieve with joint efforts of the state, business and society implementing investment projects with positive effects on various spheres. Largest Russian companies have potential to increase investment activity, but in practice project owners, banks and the state are trying to find the balance between the required level of their equity to be injected, debt financing and the level of state participation or state support for projects. During the last years the state is strongly focused on this problem with a great set of instruments, special mechanisms considered in this article, along with such mechanisms' specifics, perspectives, methodological and practical limitations. The authors present an express review of the investment activity of large businesses in Russia and a number of measures namely: SZPK, participation of EXIAR JSC, VEB.RF, NWF and others. The next article will focus on the difficulties of selecting projects for the provision of support, the problems faced in practice by specialists analysing and evaluating investment projects applying for state support.