INVESTMENT PROJECTS AND TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE ARCTIC ZONE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

The development of the Arctic zone of Russia is associated with the development of a transport system that provides not only the export of raw materials, but also the delivery of construction materials, equipment and cargo to support existing industries. In turn, investment projects for the development of natural resources determine the requirements for the development of the transport system. For the first time, a schematic diagram and a map of the transport system of the Arctic zone (rail, water and road transport), including the main communication routes and transport hubs, are presented. The main points of formation of the cargo base of mineral resources have been determined. The interdependence of the development of the transport system and the development of mineral resources of the Arctic zone is indicated. It was concluded that the development of transport infrastructure that solves production tasks allows, among other things, to improve the quality of life of the local population and the connectivity of the territories.

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Transport System of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): Analysis of the State and Development Challenges

World of Transport and Transportation ◽

10.30932/1992-3252-2021-19-4-9 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 82-91

Author(s):

I. O. Poleshkina

Keyword(s):

Spatial Analysis ◽

Transport System ◽

Mineral Exploration ◽

The State ◽

Transport Infrastructure ◽

The Arctic ◽

Arctic Zone ◽

Road Transportation ◽

Main Mode ◽

The Republic

The transport accessibility of the Arctic zone is of strategic interest for Russia from the point of view of the possibility of mineral exploration and ensuring further systemic development of this part of the national territory.The objective of the study is to carry out a spatial analysis of the transport system of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), to identify its topological properties and restrictions that impede providing sufficient logistics services. Based on the method of spatial analysis, the conducted study of the state of the transport system of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) allowed to assess transport provision within its territory for three types of transportation: transport provision of internal regional (local) transportation, transport provision of accessibility (entry and exit) of the territory of the region, and transport provision of transit transportation across the region.The study showed that air transport is the main mode for passenger transportation, while seasonal water and winter road transportation are the main modes of freight haulage.The regions of Yakutia with access to traffic arteries and isolated from them have been identified. Calculations based on the Engel’s coefficient allowed to proceed with a mathematical assessment of the transport system of the region, which indicates its insufficient development due to the lack of year-round transportation routes in the areas of the Far North and the Arctic zone. The transport infrastructure of this part of the region are represented by seasonal winter roads and waterways, which prevents from assessing their general year-round potential. For its assessment, it is necessary to consider seasonal availability of each individual section of the network.

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RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF THE ARCTIC ZONE OF RUSSIA

Научные труды Вольного экономического общества России ◽

10.38197/2072-2060-2021-228-2-181-195 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 228 (2) ◽

pp. 181-195

Author(s):

VLADISLAV A. PETROV ◽

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ALEXANDER V. VOLKOV ◽

Keyword(s):

Raw Materials ◽

Mining Industry ◽

Mineral Resources ◽

Platinum Group Metals ◽

The Arctic ◽

Arctic Zone ◽

Resource Potential ◽

Significant Development ◽

History Of ◽

Development Prospects

The article assesses the prospects for the development of strategic mineral resources in the Arctic zone of Russia (AZR). Despite the almost century-old history of mining, the subsoil of the AZR still contains a sufficient amount of mineral raw materials. The most important for the country’s economy are currently Ni, Cu, platinum group metals, Di2, P2O5, Zn, Pb, Au, Ag, Fe-ores, Ti, etc. The results obtained are based on the analysis of the most complete database compiled on deposits of various mineral types in the Russian Arctic. The analysis showed that the mining industry has significant development prospects in the Arctic zone of Russia.

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Prospects of socio-economic development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202124701070 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 247 ◽

pp. 01070

Author(s):

A.M. Khodachek

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Russian Federation ◽

Mineral Resources ◽

Transport Infrastructure ◽

The Arctic ◽

Arctic Zone ◽

Interregional Interaction ◽

Socio Economic Development ◽

The Russian Federation

Strategic documents related to the socio-economic development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation are considered. The role of system-forming projects that have a significant impact on the development of engineering and transport infrastructure in the Arctic is determined. The place of St. Petersburg as a historically developed center for the study and development of the Arctic zone in various directions is shown. The article analyzes a systematic approach to the development of mineral resources in the Arctic on the basis of a broad interdepartmental and interregional interaction of various economic entities in the real sector of the economy and government authorities.

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Challenges and prospects of transport development infrastructure of the regions of the European North Russia

Scientific bulletin of the Southern Institute of Management ◽

10.31775/2305-3100-2018-4-19-26 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 19-26

Author(s):

S. A. Kozhevnikov

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Raw Materials ◽

Road Transport ◽

Transport Infrastructure ◽

The Arctic ◽

Soviet Period ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

The North ◽

European North ◽

Northern Territories

The article examines the key trends in the development of the transport infrastructure of the regions of the European North of Russia. It is substantiated that the key problems in this area of the northern territories include a decrease in freight and passenger traffic of rail and road transport in the post-Soviet period, low density of transport routes, a small proportion of paved roads in the total length of public roads. These infrastructural limitations are currently one of the barriers to the sustainable development of the northern and arctic territories of the country. It is substantiated that in such a situation, the Vologda region can play an important role in the quality of the outpost for the development of the North and the Arctic in the European part of Russia. At the same time, the development of Vologda as a transport hub is seen in the form of a multimodal logistics center, which will allow for the close cooperation of the northern and Arctic territories of the country with its southern regions. Counter flows of goods and services will go through it to provide, on the one hand, the northern territories with food, essential products, machinery and equipment, and the southern regions with raw materials and their processing products for further development of technological chains, which will create favorable conditions for the sustainable development of the European regions. North of Russia and its Arctic zone. At the same time, an important scientific and practical task is the scientific substantiation of the mechanism for managing the processes of formation and development of this center, taking into account the northern specifics.

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Light Railways as the Basic for Transport Infrastructure Development in Northern Territories of Russia

Горная промышленность ◽

10.30686/1609-9192-2020-5-97-101 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 97-101

Author(s):

P.I. Tarasov

Keyword(s):

High Speed ◽

Road Transport ◽

Transport Infrastructure ◽

The Arctic ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

Capital Costs ◽

New Type ◽

The Republic ◽

Northern Territories ◽

Mode Of Transport

Research objective: studies of economic and transport infrastructure development in the Arctic and Northern Territories of Russia. Research methodology: analysis of transport infrastructure in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the types of railways used in Russia. Results: economic development of any region is proportional to the development of the road transport infrastructure and logistics. When a conventional railway is operated in the Arctic conditions, it is not always possible to maintain a cargo turnover that would ensure its efficient use, and transshipment from one mode of transport to another is very problematic. A new type of railway is proposed, i.e. a light railway. Conclusions: the proposed new type of transport offers all the main advantages of narrow gauge railroads (high speed of construction, efficiency, etc.) and helps to eliminate their main disadvantage, i.e. the need for transloading when moving from a narrow gauge to the conventional one with the width of 1520 mm, along with a significant reduction in capital costs.

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The Northern Sea Route as a Tool of Arctic Development

Russian Economic Journal ◽

10.33983/0130-9757-2019-4-21-44 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 21-44

Author(s):

Ju.V. Zvorykina ◽

K.S. Teteryatnikov

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Oil And Gas ◽

The Arctic ◽

Arctic Zone ◽

Investment Projects ◽

Northern Sea Route ◽

Important Region ◽

Socio Economic Development ◽

Asian Pacific ◽

Simplified Procedure

The article is devoted to the analysis of the role of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in the socio-economic development of the Arctic zone of Russia. The authors believe that climate change, gradually leading to the melting of polar ice, opens up new opportunities for the development of Arctic resources and navigation in the seas of the Arctic Ocean. Of particular interest to the NSR are non-Arctic countries, critically dependent on the supply of foreign mineral and carbon resources, as well as on the export of their goods to Europe. Among them, China stands out, considering the NSR as the Arctic Blue Economic Corridor as part of the global Silk Road system. The NSR is intended to become an essential tool for further development of the Arctic zone of Russia. Development of port infrastructure and creation of a modern ocean and maritime fleet will accelerate the pace of socio-economic development of this strategically important region. To do this, it is necessary to adopt a federal law on special system of preferences for investors, including foreign ones, implementing their projects in the Arctic. Among such preferences there are preferential profit tax rates, reduction in Mineral Extraction Tax (MET) rates, a declarative procedure for VAT refunds, a simplified procedure for granting land plots and unchanged conditions for the implementation of investment projects. In addition, it is important to make the NSR safe and profitable both in terms of quality of service and of price for the shippers. In particular, the payment for icebreakers’ escort of vessels should be competitive and reasonable. The largest Russian private and state-owned companies should be involved into Arctic projects. It is important to synchronize the Arctic oil and gas projects with nuclear and LNG icebreakers’ construction, as well as with the launch of two logistics hubs in Murmansk and Kamchatka. In this case, year-round NSR navigation will be organized, which will ensure the high competitiveness of Russian products supplied to the Asian Pacific markets.

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Aspects of ice engineering for the aims of construction of the transport infrastructure and reconnaissance drilling in the Arctic

Arctic and Antarctic Research ◽

10.30758/0555-2648-2018-64-4-407-426 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 64 (4) ◽

pp. 407-426

Author(s):

N. V. Kubyshkin ◽

I. V. Buzin ◽

N. V. Golovin ◽

Yu. P. Gudoshnikov ◽

G. A. Zamarin ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Sea Water ◽

Saline Water ◽

Construction Materials ◽

Essential Element ◽

Ice Cover ◽

Transport Infrastructure ◽

The Arctic ◽

Engineering Practice ◽

Fast Ice ◽

Original Strength

Starting from the mid 2000-s the increase of sustained development of the Russian Arctic is observed, in many cases the technologies using the ice cover as an infrastructure element and the ice as the construction materials are used. In the present time the different approaches of use of natural and artificial ice for applied tasks on the Arctic offshore exist. For example, the clearance of the upper surface of ice from snow and ridges is used for the purposes of the vessel unloading on the fast ice or constructing the airstrips on the drifting ice cover. In case of insufficient thickness of the level ice the latter is increased by the means of preliminary freezing (natural on the bottom side of ice and artificial by pouring the fresh or saline water on the upper surface). By constructing the artificial ice islands the ice body is made by spraying the sea water with the partial freezing of the water drops in the air and further freezing of the 2-phase elements (i.e. ice crystals in the liquid film) on the surface of the ice cover. The problem of cracks in the ice cover is solved by different means according to the proper task. When it is possible, the cracks are “healed”— i.e. are filled with the snow and ice gravel and then freezed. In case of impossibility of use of such method (for example — presence of tidal cracks or relatively high air temperature) the cracks are overlapped with the help of different covers made of different materials and of different sizes. The promising trend of ice technology is involving the reinforced or composite ice, having the increased strength, into the ice engineering practice. By unloading the cargo ships on the fast ice the ice strength is decreased locally for the purpose of easy berthing of the vessel with safekeeping the original strength of the surrounding ice for the aims of the vessel unloading. This problem is solved by creating the system of notches in the ice cover according to the vessel dimensions. The specialized hydrometeorological support on every stage of the ice engineering operation is an essential element of the ice engineering activities on the ice cover of lakes, rivers and seas.

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Use of Industrial Waste for the Optimization of Ceramic Construction Materials

KnE Engineering ◽

10.18502/keg.v5i4.6793 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Carlos Galhano ◽

Pedro Lamas ◽

Diogo Seixas

Keyword(s):

Industrial Waste ◽

Mechanical Characteristics ◽

Raw Materials ◽

Bottom Ash ◽

Construction Materials ◽

Fine Fraction ◽

Mineral Resources ◽

Ceramic Materials ◽

High Production Rate ◽

Marble Powder

The massive growth of the ceramic industry and the consequent demand for construction materials worldwide has motivated the search for alternative solutions aimed at reducing the use of mineral / natural resources as the main source of raw materials. One of the strategies frequently adopted by the scientific community is the reuse of industrial waste. It is beneficial not only to reduce the overexploitation of mineral resources but also to reduce the environmental, economic and social impacts resulting from their incorrect disposal/treatment and consequent deposition on land unsuitable or that purpose. Duetoconsiderationssuchasphysico-mechanical characteristics and the high production rate, two different types of industrial waste were selected for this work, ashes resulting from the burning of coal in thermoelectric power plant, commonly known as bottom ash (B), and the Marble Powder (MP). It was intended to test the technological feasibility of the manufacture of ceramic materials produced from clay mixtures containing these two residues. For this purpose, the fine fraction(<63μm)obtained from the sieving of the marbleresidue(MR)and slag(Bf)was used,aswellasacoarsergrainslagfractionrangingfrom63-125μm(Bg). The resulting test samples were subjected to a firing of 950 °C under an oxidizing atmosphere, following a primary drying process. Faced with the standard values, the new ceramic materials obtained from MP have seen their mechanical and porous characteristics decrease and increase, respectively. Atthesametime,althoughtheadditionofBinno way influenced the mechanical characteristics,a significant improvement the porous characteristic was observed. The incorporation of these residues produced a color very close to the original sample material. Keywords: industrial waste, ceramic, construction materials, bottom ash, Marble Powder

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Regions of the Russian Arctic Zone: State and Problems at the Beginning of the New Development Stage

International Journal of Engineering & Technology ◽

10.14419/ijet.v7i3.14.17028 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (3.14) ◽

pp. 369 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Lyubov Vasilievna Larchenko ◽

Roman Aleksandrovich Kolesnikov

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Development ◽

Regional Policy ◽

Raw Materials ◽

Development Stage ◽

The State ◽

The Arctic ◽

Russian Arctic ◽

Arctic Zone ◽

Arctic Regions ◽

Regions Of Russia

In recent years, a new market trading in cryptocurrencies and instruments based on them has been formed. The market of This paper The goal of the study is to analyze the degree of differentiation of the Arctic regions of Russia by the key indicators of socioeconomic development, dependence of their economic development on the raw materials industries, which should be accounted to shape an efficient regional policy by the state and achieve the strategic goals for the reclamation and development of the Russian Arctic zone. The methodology of the study is based on a systematic approach to assessing the socioeconomic and sectoral differentiation of the Arctic regions of Russia. A set of general scientific and special research methods was used. The conducted analysis indicates that all the Arctic regions under study have a narrow raw materials nature of the economy, the sectoral structure is poorly differentiated. The policy of equalizing the per capita income and the cost of living in the Arctic regions with other regions of Russia largely determined the outflow of population from the northern regions. The state regional policy in relation to the Arctic regions should take into account their heterogeneity in order to achieve the results outlined in the strategic documents.

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