The total land area of the Russian Arctic is about 5 million square kilometres.
Over 2.5 million people live in this area. It makes up around 40% of the entire population of the Arctic.
The Arctic zone of Russia forms a fifth of the federal budget revenues.
9 regions, including 4 entire Russian federal subjects: Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Murmansk Region.
45 municipal entities of 5 Russian federal subjects: Republic of Karelia, Komi Republic, Arkhangelsk Region, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
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On 13 July 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the array of federal laws on the system of preferences in the Arctic. The array prepared by the Ministry for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic includes the Federal Law 'On State Support of Entrepreneurship in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation', amendments to Part Two of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation related to the adoption thereof and certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation.
Foundations of the Russian national policy in the Arctic until 2035The resident is implementing a project to supply power to the Baimsky Mining and Processing Plant, which is being built in the Chukotka advanced special economic zone, using modernised floating power units.
ChukotkaAlexey Chekunkov, the head of the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East, has delivered a report on the development of the Northern Sea Route before the Federation Council.
EconomyThe collected scrap will be taken to steel mills for further processing.
Yakutia