A legal regulatory framework was created which allowed to implement new instruments of economic development of the Far East in the Arctic. 87 Federal laws, 511 Regulatory Acts of the Government, and 10 Acts of the President of the Russian Federation were adopted.

In the Far East, mechanisms for attracting investments are actively applied; those include Territories of Advanced Development (TAD), the free port of Vladivostok, preferential regime of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation (AZRF) (with parts of the Far Eastern Federal District, FEFD), state infrastructural support of investment projects, special preferential regime for investors on the Kuril Islands, special administrative region on Russky Island.

A Territory of Advanced Development (TAD) is a zone of special regime of business activity where investors are offered tax benefits, simplified administrative procedures, as well as infrastructure built at the expense of the state. Specifically, TAD residents enjoy income and property tax exemption for the first 5 years. A municipality establishes a land tax benefit for the period of 3 to 5 years. Mineral mining tax benefits are also in place for TAD residents, namely, a decreasing coefficient for 10 years (0 to 1). Contributions to extra-budgetary funds have been lowered from 30 percent to 7.6 percent. Besides that, TAD offers a Free Customs Zone regime (FCZ), and a right to rent land plots without bidding.

In the Far East, 16 TADs have been created:

Primorsky Krai: TAD “Mikhaylovsky”, TAD “Primorye”, TAD “Bolshoy Kamen”, TAD “Nakhodka”;

Khabarovsk Krai: TAD “Khabarovsk”;

Jewish Autonomous Oblast: TAD “Amuro-Khinganskaya”;

Amur Oblast: TAD “Amurskaya”;

Sakha Republic (Yakutia): TAD “Yakutia”, TAD “Yuzhnaya Yakutiya”;

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug: TAD “Chukotka”;

Kamchatka Krai: TAD “Kamchatka”;

Sakhalin Oblast: TAD “Sakhalin”, TAD “Kurily”;

Zabaykalsky Krai: TAD “Zabaykalye”, TAD “Krasnokamensk”;

Republic of Buryatia: TAD “Buryatia”.

The Free Port of Vladivostok is a free customs zone that includes key portside territories of the coasts of the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk. The zone’s residents are fully exempt from income tax (in the part to be credited to the federal budget) for the period of 5 years, use a reduced property and land tax rate, and enjoy significantly reduced (from 30 percent to 7.6 percent) tariffs of insurance fees.

For the residents of the free port of Vladivostok, it is possible to go through the Free Customs Zone procedure on its territory.

The free port of Vladivostok includes 22 municipalities in the 5 regions: 16 districts of Primorye (with all the major ports – Posyet, Zarubino, Vladivostok, Nakhodka, Vostochny, Preobrazheniye), the port of Pevek in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the port of Vanino and Sovetsko-Gavansky District in Khabarovsk Krai, the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in the Kamchatka Krai, ports of Korsakov and Uglegorsk in the Sakhalin Oblast.

TAD “Patrioticheskaya” is known for the complex of state support measures for production and product supply to provide for the needs of the special military operation (SMO) that has been in effect since 2023. Special measures of state support for manufacturers have been developed. The existing mechanism is intended to provide support for the businesses in the Far East that produce the goods listed in Paragraph 1 of the Government of the Russian Federation decree № 1745 dated 03.10.2022, to satisfy the needs of the SMO.

In 2023, regions and manufacturers entered into contracts to purchase and supply 18 150 items for the SMO needs; in 2024, the supply volume increased by 2.5 times, to 44 619 items.

To provide for the SMO needs, the manufactures of the Far East produce aircraft-type UAVs, various models of FPV drones, control kits, UAV detection and suppression devices, snow-bogmobiles, off-road vehicles (buggies), retransmitters, electronic warfare systems, ground-based robotic complexes “Courier”, electric enduros “Timir AT”, thermal weapon sights, bulletproof vests, mobile water treatment unit trailers, wheelchairs, high-tech prosthetics, hemostatic tourniquets.

All the products are tested to meet the frontline conditions, and delivered to the military units of the Eastern Military District.

The State Infrastructural Support of Investment Projects consists in providing major investors with federal funding to create all the necessary power, engineering, and transportation infrastructure for their projects. A selection criterion is the volume of attracted private investments in the form of capital investments per 1 rouble of state support funding. In the time between 2015-2024, investors were refunded for creating the infrastructure for investment projects; they received ₽59.2 billion with the total sum of investment coming from them exceeding ₽2 trillion.

As of July 2025, with state support measures including TADs, the free port of Vladivostok, the Arctic Zone of Russian Federation (AZRF), infrastructure support and VEB.RF preferential financing, in the Far Eastern Federal District 2 900 state-supported investment projects have been implemented. The volume of investments under agreements is ₽10.6 trillion. Currently, the sum of ₽5.1 trillion has been invested. 165 400 new jobs have been created; 944 enterprises have been commissioned.

International Territories of Advanced Development (ITADs)

In July 2025, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the final reading the Federal Law establishing a new format of territories of advanced socio-economic development in the Far East, namely, the international (ITADs). The bill was approved in both the second and the third readings.

ITADs will become a new instrument for attracting large-scale joint projects with partners from friendly countries. Their main goal is developing high value-added manufacturing and attracting major foreign investments into the FEFD economy. The law provides for extended insurances and preferences for investors.

The key provisions of the Law are as follows:

• The decision to create an ITAD is made by either the Government of Russia, or on the basis of international agreement;

• The status of ITAD residents can be given to newly created legal entities with investment volume starting at ₽500 million;

• The projects should be aimed at manufacturing high value-added production, and be approved by the Government commission for the Far East development.

Tax and regulatory preferences:

• Zero income tax rate for up to 10 years;

• Lowered insurance payments of 7.6 percent for 10 years;

• Guarantees of stability of conditions for the period of up to 15 years (the stabilization clause): protection against worsening of taxation conditions (including taxes on income, property, transport, land, and water), as well as land, urban planning and other parameters of project implementation.

Additional measures of support:

• Special working conditions for foreign banks and financial organizations;

• Special control regime;

• Protection of intellectual property rights;

• Provision of the necessary engineering and transportation infrastructure;

• Provision of land plots;

• Possibility of applying the status of the territory of customs privileges (FCZ).

The “Hectare” Program has been in effect since June 1, 2016; it is based on every Russia’s citizen’s right to receive a land plot of up to 1 hectare in the Far East for free. According to the law, the plot is provided for 5 years based on the gratuitous use contract; then the land can be rented or made property. The registration within the “Hectare” program is free; it can be done online, through the Federal information system.

The most popular ways of using the land are individual housing construction (52 percent), agriculture (29 percent), recreation (7 percent), entrepreneurship (11 percent), and other (1 per cent).

As of August 2025, the “hectare” in the Far East has been given to 148.5 thousand people; 35 thousand land plots have been rented or registered as property. The participants of the program who have rented the land or made it property, can take an additional plot.

The Presidential Unified Subsidy 

A program commissioned by the President of Russia, the “Presidential Unified Subsidy” is a mechanism that allows to comprehensively improve the life quality of the residents of the Far East and the North by building and modernizing schools and kindergartens, medical clinics, sports centers, by developing and upgrading urban environment, and by renewing infrastructure. As of today, about 2 thousand infrastructural and social facilities have been built. In the coming 3 years, over 130 social and engineering facilities are to be commissioned in the regions of the Far East.

Since comprehensive long-term development plans for the FEFD cities were adopted in 2023, the priority has been given to financing the measures defined in the cities’ master plans. Under “The Presidential Unified Subsidy”, financing also goes to the activities of the “Far Eastern Quarter” and the “Far Eastern Concession” that helps to attract private investment into social infrastructure funding.

Thanks to the “Presidential Unified Subsidy”, a number of programs, such as “1000 yards”, “50 school gyms” and “900 modern workshops” have been launched. In this vein, in 2025 it is planned to upgrade no less than 128 yard areas; before the end of 2025, in colleges and technical schools there will appear 202 modern workshops to train the personnel that is in demand in the key economic sectors.

Cities’ New Look

In the Far East, 22 comprehensive development plans for cities and agglomerations are now in effect. That refers to 11 regional centers, 9 cities with a population over 50 thousand residents and 2 capitals of Baikal-Amur Mainline. Overall, under the implementation of master plans for 25 cities in the Far East, it is provided for 875 activities with total worth over ₽4.4 trillion. The implementation of projects provided for by the master plans, will allow to improve living conditions for over 4 million of Far East residents.

The Far Eastern regions were provided with special treasury loans for projects’ implementation under the master plans for territories, including for building education and sports institutions, engineering infrastructure, upgrading of territories and road repairs.

Preferential Mortgage at 2 % per annum

Thanks to the “Far Eastern Mortgage” program, over 145 thousand families have acquired or built new housing in the Far East. The total sum of ₽715 billion has been directed to the FEFD building industry. The program has been extended to include doctors, teachers, special military operation participants, defense industry employees, members of the “Rural Cultural Worker” program; the credit limit has been raised to ₽9 million

“1 Million for the Third, or the Next Child”

On January 1, 2023 a pilot project was launched in Primorsky Krai to implement a new support measure for multiple-child families in which a third, or a next child was born. Under the project, they were given ₽1 million to be spent on mortgage repayment if the housing was bought in Primorsky Krai. At the Russian President’s request, since August 2024, this support measure has been extended to include other Far Eastern entities, in which the birth rate of a third or a next child is below average in an Okrug; these are Amur Oblast, Kamchatka Krai, Magadan Oblast, Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

The measure has proved its relevance; as of August 2025, in the FEFD regions more than 3.8 thousand families have received payments, and managed to improve their living conditions. It is expected that thanks to this initiative, by 2026, an additional 2.2 thousand of the third and the next children will be born in the region.

Fishing vessel construction, crab auctions and investment quotas: within the framework of 2 investment quotas campaigns, it is planned to build 137 fishing vessels, and crab fishing vessels (28 built), 36 fish factories (25 built), and 4 logistics port complexes.

Timber Industry Complex

Under the priority investment projects’ mechanism, for the purposes of development of timber industry complex in the Far East there are 17 investment projects in effect; the planned total investment is ₽48.2 billion, with ₽44.8 billion actually invested. Of the above-mentioned 17 projects, 12 have been built and put into service, 5 are being implemented. Materials produced under the projects include lumber, wooden slabs, veneer, parquet, plywood, cellulose, paper, cardboard, biofuels, chemical and thermomechanical pulp, wood-polymer composites, and play sets.

Far Eastern Concession

By means of this new project 34 socially relevant projects are being implemented. ₽126 billion of investment has been attracted.

Far Eastern Quarter

This instrument developed by the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic allows the investors who fulfill complex building projects, to receive the benefits equal to those the residents of TADs enjoy. Such projects should provide for not only the housing but also for comfortable urban environment, and social infrastructure including kindergartens, schools and healthcare institutions. Pilot projects are being implemented in 7 regions of the FEFD. It is planned to build 1.8 million m² of new housing for 69 thousand of the Far East residents.

Affordable Housing in the Far Eastern Federal District

The program for creation of rental housing is implemented under the assignment by the head of the state based on the outcomes of the Eastern Economic Forum, and is included into the list of the Government’s strategic initiatives. Under the program, with DOM.RF participation it is planned to build no less than 10 thousand new rental apartments for students, young professionals, and other categories of citizens, that will be defined by the entities that are part of the FEFD.

The Government has allocated ₽87 billion for these purposes. The rent will be affordable due to rates subsidizing from the federal and regional budget. For the citizens, the rate will be about ¼ of the average market pricing. Quotas for 10.900 apartments have been filled; that includes the additional 900 apartments quotas funded from projected cost savings allocated for the program.

As of today, DOM.RF has signed contracts for construction (purchase) of 11.550 apartments in all the FEFD regions. In the 7 Far Eastern regions first apartments completed with furnishing and home appliances, fully ready for accommodation, have been given to the citizens. These are 42 apartments in Primorsky Krai (residential complex (RC) “Aivazovsky” in Vladivostok), 40 apartments in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (RC “Yagodny” in Anadyr), 24 apartments in Yakutia (microdistrict “Markha” in Yakutsk), 80 apartments in Kamchatka Krai (RC at Arsentyeva St. in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky), 288 in Sakhalin Oblast (RC “Zelenaya Planeta” in Troitskoye rural location), 84 in Khabarovsk Krai (RC “Internatsionalny” in Komsomolsk -on-Amur), 252 in  Zabaykalsky Krai (microdistricts “Romanovsky” and “Khoroshiy”, RC “Rivyera Park” in Chita), totaling 810 apartments.

Satellite City of Vladivostok

It is a large-scale project of building a new city with projected population of 200 thousand people in the territory of Nadezhdinsky Municipal District. The area occupies over 2200 hectares, its construction potential is 7.1 million m² of housing. The project is included into the List of Strategic Initiatives of the Government of the Russian Federation. It is implemented by the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic in collaboration with the Primorsky Krai Government and Far East and Arctic Development Corporation.

Unified Far Eastern Airline was created in the FEFD in 2021. In 2021-2024, transportation started on 36 new socially relevant routes done by the Unified Far Eastern Airline. In that period, 1.3 million passengers were transported, and a contract for the supply of 39 new Russian-made air vessels was signed. These are 8 SSJ-NEW airplanes, 10 LMS-901 “Baikal” airplanes, 10 Mi-171A2 helicopters, and 11 Mi-171A3 helicopters. (At the moment, changes to the investment project aimed at replacing the 10 Mi-171A2 items with 8 Mi-171A3 items are underway. The issue has been agreed upon and is being considered in accordance with the established procedure.)

Besides that, programs for air travel subsidizing have been launched; for registered residents of the Far East, there are no age restrictions when flying to Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and passengers of preferential categories receive subsidies for flights to and from the FEFD. In 2024, ₽22.6 billion has been allocated for the 3 programs for transportation at discounted rates, 2.4 million passengers have traveled at discounted rates.

“Priority 2030. The Far East”

The Far Eastern track of the “Priority 2030” is being implemented. For development programs for 14 universities in the Far Eastern ₽6 billion has been allocated.

“Muravyov-Amursky 2030” is a training program for management personnel for public service and development institutions of the Far East and Arctic. The three graduation cycles of the program have yielded 149 professionals. The graduates work in 11 regions of the Far East. They serve as ministers, deputy ministers, advisors to governors, heads of departments, deputy heads of municipalities and also head regional development institutes and project offices of the Far Eastern track "Priority 2030" at leading universities. Many moved to the FEFD from other regions of Russia. 62 cadets were enrolled in the fourth graduation cycle of the “Muravyov-Amursky 2030” program. The competition was 96 applicants per place.

Creative Economy Support is now one of the key priorities of the Far East development. In 2022, the creative cluster "Labor Quarter" was opened in TAD “Yakutia” in Yakutsk. Its area is 14.6 thousand m². 193 residents work in the cluster, 755 new jobs have been created. The total revenue of the residents has exceeded ₽1 billion.

In 2025, it is planned to open a creative cluster in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, in 2026 to establish ones in Ulan-Ude, Blagoveshchensk and Vladivostok. By 2030, a network of creative spaces with a total area of at least 100 thousand m², including the infrastructure of museums and theaters, will be constructed in the macroregion.

In parallel, management teams are being trained to work at the new facilities.  Russia’s first educational program on the state-owned creative clusters management is being implemented. More than 100 students from 11 regions of the Far East participate in the training. The program includes three full-time modules.

Human resource potential for creative economy is being formed. A project to establish creative industries’ colleges is being implemented jointly with the Institute for the Development of Professional Education. In 2025, it is planned to open new colleges in Khabarovsk Krai, the Republic of Buryatia, Jewish Autonomous Oblast and Primorsky Krai. Specialized higher education is developing. In 2024, a branch of the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute was opened in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. In 2025, branches of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Khabarovsk and the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in Blagoveshchensk were opened.

Specialized competitive programs are conducted. Among them is the “Museum Far” program with a prize fund of ₽50 million, aimed at supporting projects of municipal museums. In 2024, 34 films in five categories were submitted for the “Far Eastern Film Award”; this year, 77 applications were submitted. Within the framework of the Cinema Fund's competition, ₽200 million is allocated for the production of the films made in the regions of the FEFD or on the subject of the Far East.

Acceleration programs are being implemented. Such competitions as the “Arctic Start-up Expedition: Far East and Arctic of Russia” and the “Start-up Expedition: BRICS” yielded 9 million worth of investments in the projects of 9 areas of the creative industry. Over 2 thousand people have participated in the acceleration programs during the 2 years of implementation.

Creative businesspeople receive support under the TAD and the free port of Vladivostok regimes. In Primorsky Krai there have been firmly established 79 projects with the total amount of financing of over ₽5.5 billion. Thanks to these projects, more than 4 thousand new jobs were created. Among the implemented initiatives there are an AI-using neural network logistics platform, an art gallery “Art Object”, as well as the “Profitex” sewing production.

In the microregion, significant events in the creative economy sphere are organized. In 2025, the International Forum of Creative Industries "Created in the Far East: from creativity to economy" was held in Yakutsk, bringing together 7 thousand participants from 6 countries and Russia’s 39 regions. Over 150 events were held within the framework of the forum, and 34 agreements were signed with the total amount of over ₽1 billion.

Economic Development of Russia’s Arctic

In accordance with the instructions by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the main directions of state policy in the Arctic have been developed. In the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation (AZRF) there are a number of development tools, also implemented in the Far East. In addition, unique measures of state support for investors and residents have been developed for the region.

The Government of the Russian Federation has adopted an Action Plan for the implementation of the Fundamentals of the State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Arctic for the period of up to 2035, as well as a Strategy for the development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation and ensuring national security for the period of up to 2035.

Currently, in accordance with the instructions by the President of the Russian Federation, work is underway to adjust the strategic documents concerning the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation: the Fundamentals of the State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Arctic for the period of up to 2035 and the Strategy for the Development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation and Ensuring National Security for the period of up to 2035, taking into account the need to extend their planning horizon to 2050.

In the AZRF, 1024 investment projects with an investment volume of ₽2.58 trillion are being implemented stimulated by the state support measures. Investors have already brought in ₽760 billion, created 18 800 jobs, and commissioned 300 enterprises (projects). The entire Arctic zone of Russia is the largest preferential economic regime in the world. Three territories of advanced socio-economic development have been created there (TAD "Capital of the Arctic", TAD "Capital of the North", TAD "Chukotka").

The “Hectare” Program refers to providing a land plot of up to one hectare for free use. 11 thousand citizens have already joined the program in the Arctic, and are now building housing and implementing entrepreneurial projects on their own land.

Arctic Mortgage

In 2023, a decision was made to extend preferential mortgage lending mechanisms that are in effect in the Far East, to the AZRF. 15.6 thousand people received preferential mortgages in the AZRF at 2 percent per annum for ₽63.8 billion.

Following the request of the President of the Russian Federation, since 2024, in the Murmansk Oblast measures have been implemented to develop housing, energy and social infrastructure in closed administrative-territorial entities and settlements (CATES) of the AZRF, in which military formations are stationed.

The Government of the Russian Federation has been instructed to ensure the extension of the implementation period of the action plan for the development of CATES with financing of at least ₽10 billion annually until 2030.

Affordable Rental Housing in the Key Settlements of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation

Following the instructions by the President of the Russian Federation, the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic is working on the issue of ensuring, starting from 01.01.2026, the extension of the “Affordable Rental Housing Program in the Far Eastern Federal District” to the key settlements of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation.

According to the information by the executive authorities of the regions in which the key settlements of the AZRF are located, the preliminary demand for the rental housing construction at the initial stage exceeds 3 000 apartments.

Work is currently underway to extend the FEFD program to the key settlements of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation.

The Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North

The Government of the Russian Federation has adopted Program of state support of the traditional domestic activity of the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North of the Russian Federation. The Program is to be implemented in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. In the period of 2023-2024 the funding allocated for the Program from the federal budget was ₽1.4 billion. In 2025-2027, the sum of ₽405 million is to be provided annually.

The “Children of the Arctic” Program

The “Children of the Arctic” program is currently being implemented: as of the end of 2024, 7502 children were sent to the sites of recreation and health improvement. In just 3 years of the program's implementation, more than 25 thousand children have enjoyed its benefits. The amount of funds allocated from the federal budget is ₽500 million annually.

The Presidential Unified Subsidy in the Arctic

Program financing from the federal budget:

• In 2022-2024, ₽8.5 billion was allocated;

• For 2025-2026, ₽2.6 billion was allocated.

The main outcomes of the Program implementation in 2022-2024 are as follows:

11 healthcare facilities, 7 educational institutions, 5 sports facilities were built and modernized, 94 social infrastructure facilities were put into service.

Russia’s Presence in Svalbard

One of the landmarks of the Russian presence in Svalbard is the Arktikugol Trust. This year marks 94 years since the Trust has started mining coal in the Svalbard archipelago, and in February 2025, the Svalbard Treaty turned 105.

The annual coal production is 80 thousand tons. Maintaining production at this level ensures the mine's functioning until 2030-2032. In the future, the mining there will be reduced to support only the operation of the thermal power plant of the settlement of Barentsburg; this, in turn, will prolong the operation of the mine until 2050.

The Strategy of the Russian presence in the Svalbard archipelago until 2030 includes, among others, the diversification of the Trust; in this vein, the Trust has been expanding its activities in the Svalbard archipelago since 2012, which, in turn, boosts the development of tourism infrastructure in the Russian settlements of Barentsburg and Pyramiden.

In 2015, the Trust established a separate structural division, the “Arctic Tourism Center”, located in the Svalbard archipelago (Norway).

In June 2025, for the first time in a long while, the research/survey vessel “Professor Molchanov” completed two voyages from the port of Murmansk to the port of Barentsburg. Two more voyages to the Svalbard archipelago have been scheduled for August – September 2025.

The Northern Sea Route (NSR)

The development of this transportation artery is a strategic priority: it is the shortest sea route connecting the European Russia with the Far East (5 600 km), as well as a highly promising international logistics route.

By Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 2115-r dated 08.01.2022, the "Northern Sea Route Development Plan for the period of up to 2035" was approved; the Plan includes 155 measures arranged in 5 sections, such as cargo base, transportation infrastructure, cargo and icebreaking fleet, safety of navigation along the NSR, as well as management and development of the NSR navigation.

In 2022, regular cabotage voyages along the NSR connecting the ports of the Northwest, the Arctic and the Far East were launched with the tariffs subsidized by the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic. In the period 2022-2024, under a contract with the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Atomflot”, 8 voyages were subsidized, with a total of more than 58 thousand tons of various types of cargo transported. To date, this mechanism connects 15 ports.

By the end of 2024, the capacity of Russian ports within the NSR increased to 48 million tons, which shows an increase of 7 million tons compared to the last year's figure of 40.5 million tons. In 2024, the NSR freight traffic volume amounted to 37.9 million tons, which is 1.65 million tons, or 4.5 percent more than in 2023 (36.25 million tons). The estimates by the “Rosatom” State Corporation place the NSR freight traffic volume within the range of 70-109 million tons by 2030, and that of 110-151 million tons by 2035. The freight traffic increase is defined by the active development of Arctic deposits and cargo diversion from the Western direction to the East.

Federal Law “On Northern Supply”

On April 1, 2024, Federal Law No. 411-FZ dated 08.04.2023 "On Northern Supply" was enacted.  The new legislature establishes the creation of a centralized northern importation management system. One federal and 21 regional coordinators of the northern supply were identified; these are the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic and the executive authorities of the regional entities.

At the federal level, a mechanism for centralized planning of the northern supply has been established. The volume of the northern supply imports in 2025 is 3.4 million tons, including 2 330.07 thousand tons of fuel and energy resources, 890.61 thousand tons of fuels and lubricants, 146.76 thousand tons of socially significant food products, 19.20 thousand tons of basic necessity non-food consumer goods, 0.51 thousand tons of medications, medical products and specialized medical nutrition products, 4.72 thousand tons of cargoes of the second category (cargoes meant for the state and municipal needs, except the cargoes of the first category).

The key transportation and logistics infrastructure of the northern importation has been defined as a set of transportation and logistics infrastructure facilities, including the non-public ones, vital for regular, uninterrupted delivery of northern importation goods to the population of the Northern territories. The backbone network includes 345 facilities. Proposals for its expansion have been prepared.

The Russian Federation entities have been given the right to introduce state regulation of prices for life-support products and to create a strategic reserve of life-support goods.

A state contract has been signed for the development of a federal state information system for northern importation monitoring; the system will automate many processes and, relying on the modern digital technologies, it will combine the functions of monitoring the execution of the northern importation plan, following the movement of the northern supply cargoes, and timely identifying the risks of supply disruptions.

On January 1, 2026, a unified maritime operator of the northern delivery (UMOND) begins to function. Since 2025, a pilot project has been launched to develop the UMOND concept, under which the “Rosatom Arctic” JSC transports northern importation goods by sea and inland waterway vessels in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

These measures combined will ensure regular, uninterrupted supply of the northern importation territories with life-support goods, and reduce the time and cost of their delivery.

Key AZRF Settlements

In 2023, a list of the key AZRF settlements (16 agglomerations) was formed, completed with master plans for their development.

Based on these master plans, drafts of comprehensive plans for the long-term socio-economic development of such settlements for the period of up to 2035 have been prepared.

The drafts of the long-term plans of the key AZRF settlements include, among others, a list of vital investment projects of the territories, the main infrastructure development measures with the implementation timing, the funding amount, as well as priority areas of development by type of economic activity for the period of up to 2035.

The drafts of long-term plans of the key AZRF settlements for the period of up to 2035 define measures to upgrade and create transportation, utility, engineering, social (territory upgrading, education, healthcare, culture, sports), industrial, environmental, tourist and other kinds of infrastructure.

At the International Arctic Forum held on March 27, 2025, the master plans for the development of the key AZRF settlements were presented to the President of the Russian Federation.

In June 2025, the drafts of the long-term plans of the key AZRF settlements were submitted to the Government of the Russian Federation for approval.

The information was provided by the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic.