Zelenograd was visited by German delegation headed by Frankfurt am Main deputy burgomaster Edvin Schwarz. Prefect A.Smirnov described to the guest Zelenograd history and the outlooks of the city companies as well as informed them about small and medium business support system in Russia. In turn, the German delegation presented Ritberg territory development plan. Ritberg is supposed to become a science and new technologies area as well as Zelenograd. The centre of it will be Frankfurt University which will be moved there. 15 thousand young scientists are supposed to live there and make their investigations in the laboratories.

The delegation came to Zelenograd within the framework of Moscow and Frankfurt am Main cooperation agreement signing. It is planned that the agreement realization will start in 2009.