The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Productive Forces, Transport and Power Industry Complex Development Scheme by 2020

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In North-Eastern Yakutia it is planned to launch a production complex for exploration of gold ore and polymetallic deposits, which presumes creation of necessary infrastructure. This will make a basis for shaping up Complex Development of Tomponsky Mining Industrial Region Investment Project. This year Project's feasibility study is being drafted in order to apply for state support from RF Investment Fund.

The project incorporates exploration of Nezhdaninsky gold deposit including construction of opencast and underground mines, with total productivity of 3 mln tons of ore per year, and gold recovering plant. After reaching the designed capacity it will be possible to mine 12 tons of gold and 18 tons of silver. There are also plans for construction of Verkhne-Menkechensky polymetallic ore dressing and processing plant, exploration of Agylkinsky copper-tungsten and Dzhalkansky copper deposits.

Infrastructure facilities within the projects include launching heat power plant basing on coals Dzhebariki-Khainsky deposit, a HV-line at Khandyga-Nezhdaninskoe length with branch-line reaching Verkhne-Menkechensky silver-polymetallic deposit, bridging soil ruptures at Kolyma federal highway with bypasses at complicated areas.

Tomponsky complex development investment project (Table 9)

Western Yakutia is witnessing creation of territorial industrial complex, including, besides existing diamond mining branch, creation of new oil and gas, gas processing and gas-chemical facilities. This complex is closely linked to the group of oil and gas deposits in Krasnoyarsk Krai (first of all, Vankorsky and Yurubcheno-Takhomsky) and Irkutsk Oblast (Kovyktinsky and Verkhnechonsky deposits).

Chayandinsky oil-gas condensate field, Otradninsky gas condensate field, Talakansky oil-gas condensate field, Srednebotuobinsky oil-gas condensate field are planned for development, as well as gas processing, gas chemistry, and oil processing facilities construction, creation of helium industry, cinstruction of underground diamond mines (Aikhal, Udachny, Mir, Internatsionalny, Notuobinsky mines).

The project's infrastructure will include Ust-Kut - Nepa - Vitim - Lensk railroad, Vilyui and Anabar motorways, power engineering facilities - commissioning of additional units of Svetlinskaya, Vilyuiskaya and Mirninskaya HPS-s, HV-lines connecting unified power grids of Irkutsk Oblast and Western Yakutia.

Project's feasibility study is being drafted in order to apply for state support from RF Investment Fund in 2009.

West Yakutia complex development investment project (Table 10)

Main feature of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) transportation system is poor development of land communications. Only 8 percent of the Republic's territory is accessible all-year-round, the rest of it has seasonal transport accessibility.

Density of motorways is 11 times lower than Russia's average, besides, about 80 percent of motorways are beyond standard requirements. Current financing provides only 16 percent of standard need for motorways maintenance. Over 70 percent passenger traffic falls on air transport.

The period until 2020 provides transformations aimed at rapid development of transport infrastructure, forming a transportation backbone network in order to involve Republic's resources in Russian economy and to integrate economically with Asia Pacific countries. We will be focusing on eliminating major ruptures and bottlenecks in transportation backbone.

The following strategic investment projects are planned for implementation: completion of Berkakit - Tommot -Yakutsk railroad; construction of Ulak - Elga, Ust-Kut - Nepa - Lensk, Khani - Olyokminsk, Yakutsk - Magadan railroads; renovation and construction of Lena, Kolyma, Vilyui federal motorways, Amga, Kobyay, Umlnas, Yana regional motorways. 2,680 km of motorways is going to be constructed, 57 percent of them being hard surface roads. The length of railroads will increase 10 times, and will make 4,980 km.

Current transport ability (Table 11)

Transportation projects implementation will let us increase the reliability of transport infrastructure: up to 91.5 percent of the population will have access to the Republican centre and surrounding regions, 47.5 percent of the Republic's territory will be provided with all-year-round motorways. By 2020 a considerable growth of loads transportation is forecasted (2 times the volume of 2007). Construction of rail- and motor access roads to resources fields will be provided.

Transportation development scheme by 2020 (Table 12)

Fundamental upgrading of air traffic control system will be provided via creation of Yakutsk-based consolidating control centre.

A large traffic centre will be launched in Yakutsk, uniting land, river, sea and air transportation lines.All the facilities within this centre will become key points in future transport technologies and effective interaction of different kinds of transportation delivering passengers and cargo industrial centres of Central and Western Yakutia. River cargo delivery to the Arctic regions of Yakutia will be moved from Osetrovo port to Yakutsk river port, which will reanimate the Northern Sea Route, in both westwards and eastwards directions.

Yakutia road junctions construction (Table 13)

As soon as Berkakit — Tommot — Yakutsk railroad reaches the right bank of Lena River, we will have a very promising meridional transportation corridor to Europe (APR-Europe). Today, this corridor is the Eurasian beeline from East to West (Transsiberian — Amur-Yakutia Railroad — Northern Sea Route), it will speed up the travelling two times compared to present patterns.

Modern power supply system in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) incorporates three isolated power regions - South-Yakutian, Central and Western, as well as a distributed power supply zone. In the nearest future the existing facilities will become insufficient for backing the growing capacity of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and neighbouring territories due to active investment activity of state and private companies, aimed at developing the natural resources and creating a corresponding infrastructure. According to the Scheme electric power consumption in the Republic will increase 3.1 times by 2020, 4.3 times by 2030.

Current power supply system (Table 14)

The Strategy of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) Unified Power Supply System Development until 2030 provides completion of construction of South Yakutia Power Complex by 2020. It means commissioning 7 stations with total output of 8,495 MWt.

The plans are as follows:
- commissioning 3 units each for 215 MWt within Neryungri PP in 2011, 2013 and 2015;
- reconstruction of 4 units of GT-35 2nd set of Yakutsk PP, increasing individual installed capacity of
units up to 60 MWt, commissioning years being 2009, 2012, 2013, 2020;
- construction of 20 heat stations in distributed power supply zones by 2013 within the Plan of Local Power Supply Optimisation, total installed capacity making 95 MWt.

Development of network infrastructure presumes consolidating isolated power supply zones of the Republic, construction of HV-lines for providing power supply at new industrial complexes.

Power system development plan by 2020 (Table 15)

Uniting three isolated systems will solve a global issue - uniting power system of the Far East with unified power grid of Central and Western Russia.

The Scheme will have a strong interregional effect. Its implementation will lead to economic growth of other subjects of Far Eastern Federal District as well.

We will create an environment for providing gas supply of Amur Oblast communities, Primorsky Krai, Khabarovsk Krai and Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Engineering plants will be provided with work, and a basis for development of gas and oil processing and chemical productions will be created in said regions. Implementation of the Scheme will promote lower tariffs in the Far East, and a more competitive power supply market.

New transportation corridors will appear, both within the Far Eastern Federal District and on national level. It will also provide loads for railroads and sea ports of the Far East.

National effect from the Scheme's realization stems from greater export opportunities, production of fuel and energy resources and power supply, higher energy safety, creation of conditions for population inflow to the Far Eastern Federal District.

Implementation of the Scheme will become another step towards providing national security of the country at its eastern borders, and will assist in process of Russia's integration with Asia Pacific regions.

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