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Dmitriy Kobylkin: While developing Yamal, Russia accumulated unique experience of work in the Arctic

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In Reykjavik, Iceland, the governor of Yamal Dmitriy Kobylkin presented the region on the plenary session of the fourth Arctic Circle Assembly dedicated to economic development of the Arctic.

Dmitriy Kobylkin, speaking before the participants of the forum, reminded that, as regards gas, for the present day only 12% of all reserves of Yamal had been extracted during half a century of active development of natural resources in the region. And gas of Yamal gives heat and light not only to residents of Russia but also to 21 countries of the European Union. The governor called the people, who had managed to turn this harsh land into comfortable home, the main wealth of the region. As the governor of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug tells, today more than half a million people live in the region – representatives of more than 100 nationalities, including indigenous peoples of the North, whose ancestors settled in this land 10 thousand years ago. Their unique culture was born here; at the present time it is preserved in the Arctic best of all, as the press service of the head of Yamal informs. According to the information given by the head of the arctic region to the participants of the forum, the amount of the gross regional product of Yamal has good dynamics, and in 2015 it made almost 30 milliard dollars, more than 54 thousand dollars per capita. He also notes that “while development of Yamal, Russia accumulated unique experience in high latitudes. The scales of socioeconomic development, which took place here, behind the Polar Circle, have no analogues in the world. Specialists from all over the Soviet Union participated in development of the North. Many of them made families, raised children. Already the third generation of those brave pioneers of oil and gas industry lives in the region. But it is very important that large-scale development of the northern territory did not violate the original way of life of indigenous northerners. The number of the native population increased on 11 percent during last ten years. This is a unique case in the world history. At that, 14 thousand tundra-dwellers today conduct traditional way of life, as Dmitriy Kobylkin says. The first Arctic Circle Forum took place in 2013 by the initiative of the President of Iceland. The event is recognized as the effective open platform for free dialogue of representatives of governments, corporations, non-governmental organizations and scientists from different countries. The Arctic Circle Forum has the format of the broadest possible consideration both of urgent problems and prospects of development of the Far North. The countries of the circumpolar community are the participants of the Arctic Circle: Russia, the USA, Canada, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and also states, which geographically are not included into the Arctic community but express strong interest in development of this unique part of the planet; among them there are such countries as China, India and others.

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