The Reproduction of the Mineral Resource Base as the Basis for the Sustainable Development of the Resource-Producing Regions of the North and the Arctic

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
• Main Authors: Larchenko, L V, Kolyshkin, A V, Yakovleva, T V
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; nenets
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/753/6/062016; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/753/6/062016/pdf; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/753/6/062016

Abstract The article shows that the raw material development of the northern and Arctic regions, as shown by world and Russian practice, is extremely unstable. The reason for this is the depletion of the raw material base, fragile market conditions. In Russia, since the 1990s, there has been a decline in the reproduction of the mineral resource base. On the example of the Nenets Autonomous District, the problems of regional development and the reproduction of the mineral resource base are considered. The analysis showed that in the region there is an increase in the mono-branch nature of the economy, which is mainly focused on the exploitation of hydrocarbon resources. At the same time, the explored and put on the balance of oil reserves in the district are decreasing, since the main deposits were discovered and put on the balance in the Soviet time and today are close to exhaustion. The article shows that in order to avoid the dependence of the region on raw materials, the complex development of the resource area is necessary mainly through the diversification of primary industries and the restructuring of the regional economy. Maintaining oil production is possible only with the intensive preparation of new reserves, which requires large-scale exploration and significant financial costs, including governmental.