KRASNOYARSK, June 27. /TASS/. About 7,000 families have been moved since 2011 from the Norilsk Industrial District (the Krasnoyarsk Region’s north) to regions with better climate conditions, Nornickel’s Vice President Dmitry Pristanskov said on Wednesday at presentation of the company’s report on sustainable development.
In 2011, Russia’s Ministry of Regional Development, the Krasnoyarsk Region, the city of Norilsk and the Norilsk Nickel Company (Nornickel) signed an agreement to support families, who wanted to move out from Norilsk and Dudinka (the Taimyr Municipal District’s center).
People, who have worked in the Extreme North for more than 15 years could participate in the program. The most preferred destinations have been the Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Leningrad and Krasnodar Regions.
“Since 2011, jointly with the federal authorities, the Krasnoyarsk Region and with Norilsk, we have been involved in the program to help people to move from the Norilsk Industrial District,” he said.
“We are to relocate more than 11,000 families, and since 2011 we have moved 7,000 families, where every fourth family chose to stay within the Krasnoyarsk Region.” Investments in the program are over 8 billion rubles ($127 million), he added.
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