Development of transport infrastructure in the regions of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation from the position provisions of national security

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Main Authors: Yu Kozmenko, S, Ulchenko, M V
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Northern Sea Route
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/302/1/012123; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/302/1/012123/pdf; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/302/1/012123

Abstract The value of the Arctic regions, for contemporary Russia it is difficult to overestimate the enormous natural resource, geopolitical, and socio-economic potential makes them an area of strategic interests. It is in the Arctic that the main reserves of oil, natural gas, nickel, copper, diamonds, iron, tin, zinc, tungsten, coal and uranium are concentrated. The study revealed that the development of transport infrastructure in the Arctic regions is a priority direction of the implemented “National security strategy of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2020“. At the same time, the main purpose of the implementation of this paragraph of the Strategy is to increase the efficiency of industrial development of the Arctic regions, as well as the creation of favorable conditions for improving their socio-economic development. To achieve this goal, it is planned to create a single Arctic transport system, the key element of which will be the Northern sea route. The paper analyzes the state of the main types of transport represented in the regions of the Russian Arctic – road, water, air, rail and pipeline. Being in fact a kind of tool for the implementation of regional and national economic interests, the transport sector plays a key role in the development of these territories, allowing the delivery of raw materials and products to markets. The analysis of transport infrastructure of the Arctic areas showed their moral and physical obsolescence. Despite the fact that the volume of freight traffic transportation by sea in Russia is insignificant, the growth rate of traffic on the Northern sea route in 2018 is impressive.