35
Production
cost millions
N/A
USD
Arctic Yearbook 2015
N/A
N/A
N/A
Joint stock company “Nizhne-Lenskoe”7
Diamond
production,
N/A N/A 984
1297
thousand
carats
Production
cost million N/A N/A 81.53 97.1
USD
Gold, kg8
2242 956.5 614
2152
Inclusive
the
Ust1137 491.8 6
1350
Yanskiy
region
The
Verkhoyanski 1105 327.8 262
308.0
y region
The Momskiy
60.0
96
107.0
region
The
Nizhnekolym
8.9
154
280.0
skiy region
The
Verkhnekoly
8.0
0
0.0
mskiy region
Tin, ton (the
Ust-Yanskiy
3707 2569 1957 2001
region)8
Coal, thous.
ton
(the
N/A 279
182
123
Verkhnekoly
mskiy
region)8
N/A
N/A
157.7
136.3
175.4
153.1
N/A
N/A
1301
1372
1351
1253
1508
1521
2010
1818
90.8
92.94
100.9
86.4
116.9
110
132.9
594
785.4
593
642
432
482
415
446
22.0
26.6
35.3
29.0
2.0
24.0
15.0
43.0
316.0
323.2
224.1
310.0
130
106.0
123.0
137.0
118.0
217.8
153.4
149.0
141
176.0
125.0
133.0
20.0
0.0
26.8
5.0
0
0.0
27.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0.0
0.0
0.0
674
187
No production
152
150
195
243
200
171
160
172
Currently, management and governance of settlements in the polar areas of Yakutia and Chukotka are
predominantly oriented towards social needs of the communities (Vasiliev et al. 2009). These remote
Arctic settlements have no industry and are generally used as terminals for supply of sparse mining
enterprises, transportation of their production and personnel (Huskey 2011). The production and
infrastructure are bound to diamond, gold and other mineral industries (Fondahl et al. 2014), and labor
force is attracted in a shift work arrangement.
Rearrangement of the Russian economy resulted in changes of approaches towards its Arctic
territories development, notably the eastern regions. In the 1990s, the operating system of delivery of
goods to northern territories collapsed resulting from misunderstanding of the role of the Arctic and
the prospects of its development in the framework of the country’s economy and the demolition of
Barakaeva, Batugina & Gavrilov