#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In Volochanka, under the cooperation program of Nornickel and the North Indigenous Peoples Association, a first aid station (FAS) was opened and four residents were given the keys to new houses.
“This is a joyful day for us – we have received a new medical center in our village. The old one was built back in 1972, when it housed first a regional and then a local hospital. Therefore, the previous building of the medical center began to collapse a long time ago, and now everything in our new one is modern and advanced”, Nadezhda Turdagina, the Volochanka FAS head, shared her impressions.
Now the head of the paramedic-midwife station has a large reception room, a pharmacy kiosk, warehouses for medicines, and a vaccination room. There is also a service apartment for a medical worker at the first-aid post.
This year, as part of the program, two more health centers will be opened in Ust-Port and Ust-Avam. Three more residents of Ust-Avam will receive the keys to the new apartments.
In general, over two years, 15 apartments were built in Volochanka and Ust-Avam for 70 million rubles. Next year, Nornickel plans to allocate 65 million for the construction of nine apartments and an additional 108 million rubles for the construction of 15 apartments in these villages.
“What we see today in the villages of Taimyr is a vivid example of a true public-private partnership. The cooperation agreement between Nornickel and the Indigenous Minorities Association was concluded three years ago, and now the Taimyr residents are already receiving the keys to new houses. It is here that such work is most needed and important for the population, and the regional government fully supports it”, commented Dmitry Sviridov, deputy chairman of the region’s Legislative Assembly.
“We have a lot of problems in the North, but together with such socially responsible companies as Nornickel, together we are able to solve them constructively. The company’s agreements within the joint territory development program allow the construction of housing and social facilities in the villages over several years”, noted the governor’s plenipotentiary Alexey Chlenov.
Earlier, at a meeting of the Indigenous Communities Coordination Council, Nornickel summed up the results of the program to assist Taimyr ethnic groups.
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Text: Denis Kozhevnikov, Photo: Vitas Beneta / Nornickel Polar Branch press service
