It is planned to create about 39,600 new jobs in the Russian Arctic, recognized as a free economic zone, of which 12,500 have already been created, said the Minister of Regional Development Alexei Chekunkov at a meeting of the Council for the Development of the Far East, the Arctic and Antarctica at the Federation Council.
The mechanisms of state support for entrepreneurial activity in the Arctic, created in 2020, allowed attracting investments in 747 investment projects with a combined volume of 1.7 trillion rubles, the minister noted.
"The contribution to the country's GDP is huge: there is natural gas in Yamal, fertilizers in Murmansk, gold in Chukotka, diamonds in Yakutia, fish. It is difficult to imagine the Russian economy without all this," Chekunkov said.
Speaking about the priorities of the Ministry of Regional Development in the Arctic, he mentioned the development of state regulation, economy and the social sector.
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