A new major industrial region may be established with the development of the Tomtor rare earth metals deposit and the Popigai impact diamond deposit.
Development and investments
World’s northernmost data center opened in Norilsk
The data center, or DPC (data processing center), must have a high level of protection, for which it was specially prepared to work in the Far North. Experts are confident that the Norilsk data center will last a long time and will not require additional ...
Federation Council delegation visited Sulfur Project showroom
In the hall, equipped with the latest technology, the senators were able to get acquainted with the architectural models of the intended objects, the technological and chemical-physical production processes. The senior Nornickel vice president - the head of the Norilsk division Nikolay Utkin answered the ...
First Arctic zone residents signed agreements
The Far East Development Corporation signed the first agreements with residents, whose projects in the Arctic zone were previously approved by the commission of the Ministry for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic. According to the corporation press office, the first resident, the ...
Norilsk residents to get free land
The Ministry for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic has submitted for consideration to the Russian government a draft law on the free receipt of the land plots in the country's Arctic zone for the construction of a residential building or for ...
Road to Taimyr
“At the session, members of the Federation Council, State Duma deputies, heads of parliaments of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, representatives of the legislative bodies of Norway, Finland, Iceland, the United States and experts discussed a wide range of problems of the development ...
Taimyr indigenous peoples to be supported
Nornickel has developed a comprehensive plan to assist the development of the indigenous peoples of the North, calculated for five years, for a total of two billion rubles. The program will run until 2024 and includes support for traditional activities, protection of the original habitat, ...
Loans for Arctic zone residents
The loans for the Arctic zone residents will be subsidized by the state. According to Deputy Minister for Development of the Far East and the Arctic, Alexander Krutikov, the subsidy mechanism will start working in 2021, and the amount of subsidies will be 6.75 percent. According ...
Severnaya Zvezda passed Expert Review
The last one was a positive opinion on the design documentation for the construction of the West Taimyr industrial cluster enrichment plant for the highly valuable coking coals concentrates production. According to the Yenisey Siberia Development Corporation, earlier reports were issued for a sea coal ...
Research to help the Arctic
The invited experts, representatives of the public, deputies of Norilsk and Taimyr, Nornickel’s representatives spoke about the process of eliminating the consequences of the accident at CHPP-3, the ecosystem restoration and traditional use of natural resources of the Taimyr indigenous peoples. As the Nornickel’s senior vice ...