Over $29 million (900 million rubles) will be allocated by 2015 to build Arctic rescue centres in Russia, the director of the department of fire safety and rescue force at the Emergency Situations Ministry, Maxim Vladimirov, said this week.
"Under a federal programme 910.5 million rubles is to be disbursed in 2011-2015 for the construction of new buildings and for upgrading the old ones for the centres," he said at a distance conference at the national centre for crisis management.
In all, by 2015 in the Arctic zone there will be created ten integrated rescue centres - in the Murmansk and Arkhangelsk regions, Nenets Autonomous Area, Komi Republic, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, Taimyr (Krasnoyarsk Region), Yakutia and Chukotka.
According to Vladimirov, each centre will consist of two units, responsible for information and analysis and for emergency rescue operations. They will have land and naval forces, as well as aircraft.
"All the centres will be created in stages. At the first stage, extending over the next two years, they will appear in Murmansk, Naryan-Mar and Dudinka in the Krasnoyarsk Region", Vladimirov said.