Zhatay Fleet Operations Base: a Comprehensive Development Project and its Socioeconomic Significance for the Arctic Regions of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Main Authors: Sibileva, E, Kontorusova, S
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Sakha; Zhatay; lena river; Republic of Sakha; Yakutia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/459/6/062039; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/459/6/062039/pdf; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/459/6/062039

Abstract Development of transport infrastructure in the Lena River Basin is crucial to the continuous delivery of vital cargo to the dwellers of the Republic’s Arctic regions, to investment projects, to Emercom’s and Defense Ministry’s bases. Today, the National Arctic Development Program plans an investment project titled Fleet Upgrade and Shipbuilding for Inland Transportation of Cargo in the Lena River Basin the project will use the Zhatay Shipyard reconstructed at the Zhatay Fleet Operations Base (ZFOB), which is a structural multifaceted technical management unit of OAO Lena United River Shipping Company (LORP). This is a comprehensive large-scale projects that will require its participants to be well-coordinated. Inauguration of the high-tech Zhatay Shipyard at the reconstructed and retrofitted Zhatay FOB will enable the constructing and upgrading passenger and cargo ships; the shipyard will also be able to assemble river-marine vessels from the kits produced by the shipbuilders of AO United Shipbuilding Corporation or by other Russian shipbuilders under cooperation agreements. The project is expected to create about 1,300 jobs. It is estimated to cost 5.75 billion rubles, 4.1 billion of which will be invested by the federal budget.