During the three quarters of 2026, small and medium-sized businesses in the Murmansk region issued 185 preferential microloans for 318 million rubles, RBC writes. Compared to the corresponding period last year, the volume of loans decreased by 1.5%, and the number of loans decreased by 18%. At the same time, the average loan size increased from 1.4 million to 1.7 million rubles. The main recipients of the funds were enterprises from the fields of hotel business, catering, transportation and construction.