Fr om mechanical engineering to aircraft construction. Aleksandr Lukashenko held a meeting with the governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast wh ere he outlined the most important areas of common interests. The President noted that Minsk and Yekaterinburg have reached almost $1 bln in trade turnover. And this is not the limit. The cooperation between Belarus and Sverdlovsk Oblast of Russia is developing dynamically. Since 2020, the trade turnover has been gradually going up — by an average of 10% per year. Belarus supplies lorries, lasers, ferrous metal tubes, food products and electrical transformers to the Russian region.