#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In the Yenisey district, they have begun implementing a large-scale project to provide high-quality Internet and cellular communications to several settlements on the Siberian river – the construction of a fiber-optic communication line. The project will be implemented over several years. The telecom operator has already delivered equipment from Yeniseisk to the village of Antsiferovo, where the cable is being laid in full swing.
As part of the project, 130 kilometers of the line will be laid at the expense of the regional and federal budgets – from the village of Antsiferovo, which is located 70 kilometers from Yeniseisk, to the village of Novonazimovo. In 2025, another 130 kilometers will be laid. In total, the fiber optic cable will stretch 300 kilometers to the extreme point – the village of Nikulino, which is located approximately 245 kilometers north of the regional center of Yeniseisk. Digital communication will appear in nine villages with a total population of three thousand people.
Currently, most remote villages in the north of the region are provided with communication only via a satellite channel due to the lack of other alternatives.
“The idea to extend fiber optics in the north of the region was born after a resident of the Yartsevo village posted a message on social networks last fall. After that, we prepared a project, a financing mechanism with the participation of the federal and regional budgets, and this year we began to implement it”, said Krasnoyarsk region’s minister of digital development Nikolay Raspopin.
Let us recall that Norilsk residents have been able to use high-speed Internet for seven years now. The largest project for the construction of a fiber-optic communication line (FOCL) along the Novy Urengoy – Igarka – Snezhnogorsk – Norilsk route has become part of Nornickel’s strategy for the integrated development of the Norilsk industrial region. The communication line length is 956 kilometers, and the cost of the project was 2.5 billion rubles. The fiber had to be laid through the tundra and under the Yenisey bottom, the work was carried out in winter, from December to April, at 30-degree frost.
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Text: Maria Sanina, Photo: Nikolay Shchipko
