Medvedev inspects Nenets infrastructure

After arriving to the Naryan-Mar airport, Medvedev personally drove his own Mercedes and went together with Nenets Governor Igor Fyodorov to inspect Naryan-Mar infrastructure facilities and to see how effective decisions in housing and utilities sphere are being carried through

One of the inspected objects was a 60-flats panel house reconstructed with federal money from the Fund for assistance to reforming of housing and communal services. As a result of capital repair, heat and power consumption has been reduced by 30 percent.

In his talks with the Governor, Medvedev ordered that all slum dwellings should be totally demolished. Fyodorov promised to cope with this task by 2016.

Old houses in Naryan-Mar should be taken down by 2016 (Photo: Andrey Vokuev)

The total funding from the program was RUB 823 million in course of the last three years. This made it possible to repair 219 houses in the Nenets Autonomous okrug including 152 in the town of Naryan-Mar, informs the Okrug’s Administration.

Medvedev also visited Naryan-Mar’s sewage disposal plant, which uses a biological treatment system. The Okrug is very active in constructing new houses and pulling down old ones, so it needs to increase the capacity of sewage disposal facilities.

Dmitry Medvedev did not come empty-handed to Naryan-Mar, but as he said, with a present. Negotiations on transfer of Naryan-Mar United Aviation Enterprise from the Russian Federation to regional ownership have been going on for the last three years. The President could now officially inform that he has signed a decree which gives Nenets 100 percent ownership of the aviation company.

Nenets Autonomous Okrug is the 83-rd Russian region Medvedev visits during his Presidency (the total number of Russian regions is 83).

Written by Andrey Vokuev, the Norwegian Barents Secretariat’s information office in Naryan-Mar