Russian authorities intend to allocate an additional 16 billion rubles for development Kuril Islands.
The governor announced this Sakhalin region Alexander Khoroshavin after a working meeting held in Kurilsk with the participation of members of the Russian government, dedicated to the implementation Federal Target Program “Socio-economic development of the Kuril Islands for 2007-2015”.

13 billion rubles of this amount are planned to be allocated from the federal budget, the remaining 3 billion rubles from the local budget. The Sakhalin Region also plans to attract funds from private investors for the development of the Kuril Islands. They, according to Khoroshavin, will be interested in the development of such industries as marine biological resources and tourism.

The volume of the Federal Target Program for the development of the Kuril Islands, valid until 2015, is 15 billion rubles (investments from the federal budget).
The main directions of the program are the development of transport infrastructure, social sphere and energy.

details about the new infrastructure of the Kuril Islands (many photos)

Kurile Islands- include 30 large and many small islands.
The population lives permanently only in Paramushir, Iturup, Kunashir and Shikotan.
Population of the Kuril Islands - 18,735 people

Kunashir Island- the southernmost island of the Great Kuril Islands.
Population - approx. 8000 people.
Yuzhno-Kurilsk - administrative center South Kuril District.

A Friendship Center was built to receive delegations


Free social housing


House of Culture
(medical and educational expedition “Borders of Russia”, August 2010)

Opening of a new kindergarten
Governor of the Sakhalin Region Alexander Khoroshavin (right)



Port of Yuzhno-Kurilsk

New deep-water berth


The commissioning of modern deep-sea berthing complexes in Kunashir and Iturup will bring the transport infrastructure in the Kuril Islands to a qualitatively new level and improve the quality of life on the islands.
The motor ship "Igor Farkhutdinov" moored at the new pier for the first time
(February 2011)

Airport "Mendeleevo"
The airfield was built by the Japanese when Kunashir Island was still under Japanese control and has hardly been rebuilt since then.
In 2006 it was closed due to complete deterioration of the infrastructure and destruction of the runway.
During the reconstruction, as part of the Federal Targeted Program for the socio-economic development of the Kuril Islands, a new passenger terminal, taxiways, a new apron, a runway, a landing system and lighting equipment were put into operation.

Operates on the island Mendeleevskaya GeoTPP(geothermal power plant), which provides the island with heat and electricity.
Volcano energy as a source of heat and light for humans is the operating principle of this station.
Commissioning of the second stage of the station in 2007 provided 100% of the heat demand in Yuzhno-Kurilsk.
By 2011, it is planned to modernize and introduce additional capacities, as a result of which the total capacity of the facility will almost triple - from 1.8 MW to 5 MW.

Iturup Island-island of the southern group of the Great Ridge of the Kuril Islands, the most large island archipelago.
Population - 6387 people.
Kurilsk

Kitovaya Bay


In 2006, the modern fish processing complex “Reidovo” was launched on the island..
Six air freezing chambers ensure the production of 74 tons of finished frozen fish products per day.

On about. Iturup also houses the Yasny fish processing plant, equipped with a one-of-a-kind freezing tunnel for air freezing of fish, allowing the continuous freezing of 210 tons of finished fish products per day.
There is a caviar workshop where 3 tons of caviar are produced per day. In addition, there is a salting shop with a capacity of 25 tons per day and a refrigerator with a capacity of 2300 tons of simultaneous storage.

Kurilskaya buildings have already been built on the island high school for 250 students, as well as a modern central district hospital with 50 beds and a clinic for 100 visits per shift.
New hospital

Sports complex


landscaping of a park in the city center



Governor's working trip

The construction of an airport continues in Iturup, which will be equipped with the latest technology. New air gate are located on the sunny side of the island, which will allow easy access to Iturup even in bad weather. The extended 2.2 km long runway will accommodate all types of aircraft operating in the region.

Shikotan Island- the largest island of the Malaya ridge of the Kuril Islands.
Malokurilskoe- the administrative center of the island.
Population - approx. 2100 people.
Development of mooring infrastructure on Shikotan Island



The Krabozavodsk fish processing complex is equipped with the most modern equipment.

The workshop's capacity allows it to receive and process up to 300 tons of raw fish every day.

New kindergarten for 70 seats (2010)

New School (2006)


Construction of fuel supply systems is underway on all islands - Iturup, Kunashir and Shikotan

Paramushir Island- one of the islands of the Northern group of the Great Ridge of the Kuril Islands.
Population - about 2500 people.
Severo-Kurilsk- the administrative center and the only populated area of ​​the island.
The fishing port and fish processing plant are the main production facilities of Severo-Kurilsk.
In 1952, the city was almost destroyed by a tsunami, but after that it was restored and exists to this day.
Monument to those killed in 1945


Fisherman's Day is one of the main holidays on the Kuril Islands



Transportation of goods and passengers to the islands is carried out by the motor ships “Igor Farkhutdinov” and “Marina Tsvetaeva”.

Construction plans for 2011
In 2011, a kindergarten for 40 places will be commissioned in the village of Reidovo on the island. Iturup, construction of the berth complex in Yuzhno-Kurilsk has been completed. The construction of the sea terminal building will continue, in a single three-story sea terminal complex with an area of ​​more than 885 square meters. m will house all services operating both domestic and international flights.
The project “Construction and reconstruction of fuel supply systems for the island” will also be commissioned. Shikotan" in the village of Malokurilskoye.
This year the following will be built: a 6-apartment residential building in the village of Krabozavodskoye on Shikotan, a 10-apartment building and four 8-apartment buildings in Yuzhno-Kurilsk, two 8-apartment buildings on Iturup.
This year, a modular diesel generator power station will be completed and launched on the street. Nagornaya in the village of Malokurilskoye.
And as part of the regional fire safety program, a fire station in Yuzhno-Kurilsk is expected to be put into operation.

P.S. Of course, on the Kuril Islands, not everything is as rosy and positive as it looks in these photographs. I have collected here only new or renovated objects. In addition to large settlements by the standards of the Kuril Islands, there are also very small settlements, where, nevertheless, people also live.
But since the island development program was adopted until 2015 and the positive trend is obvious, there is every reason to believe that in all populated areas all 4 inhabited Kuril Islands will have decent living conditions.

Kuril Islands / Photo: riarealty.ru

A number of new military facilities will appear on the Kuril Islands of Iturup and Kunashir, the press service reports. Federal agency special construction (Spetsstroy).

The press service noted that social infrastructure is also being built on the islands: dormitories for military personnel, cultural, leisure and sports centers.

The total construction area reaches 400 thousand square meters, in total it is planned to construct 392 buildings and structures. More than 500 builders and 100 pieces of equipment are involved in the construction of military infrastructure.

Also, according to Spetsstroy, all military facilities in the Kuril Islands will be equipped with the latest system security "Sagittarius-Chasovoy", which will allow messages about emergency situations to be transmitted via secure communication channels, RIA Novosti reports.






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Sagittarius guarding military facilities and enterprises of the military-industrial complex

By the end of 2015, national superheroes will protect the borders of Russia using unique bracelets

Just recently, fantastic bracelets from superhero movies were just a utopia. However, the Sagittarius company managed to turn fantasy into reality.

Superhero bracelets are unique security points for receiving and transmitting information, which form the basis of the integrated complex of technical security equipment “Sagittarius-Sentinel”. Using bracelets, you can not only monitor the status of each guard (GLONASS sensor, immobility sensor), but also secretly notify him of an emergency situation at the facility with a vibration signal. In other words, the Strelets company was able to combine the entire complex of technical means of protecting an object directly with the person on combat duty. In the event of an emergency at the facility, an alarm signal will immediately be sent to the bracelet and to the control headquarters.


Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev gets acquainted with the Sagittarius-Chasovoy mobile complex at the Russian Ministry of Defense forum / Photo: i-korotchenko.livejournal.com

“We need to implement it!”

“We need to implement it!” – Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev succinctly stated after getting acquainted with the Sagittarius-Chasovoy mobile complex at the International Military-Technical Forum of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The Minister of Defense said that the complex has already been put into service and will enter the Russian army in 2015.

Today, the Sagittarius-Chasovoy complex is already used to protect the most important military facilities, for example, the National Defense Control Center of Russia in Moscow, as well as the Patriot Park in Kubinka.


At the official closing ceremony of the forum, the Strelets company was awarded the award “For its contribution to the preparation and organization of the international military-technical forum” / Photo: i-korotchenko.livejournal.com

Patriot Park under the sign of Sagittarius

All security systems of the Patriot Park: video surveillance, access control, perimeter security and personal alarm systems were implemented using Sagittarius-Sentry technology, including wireless.

As a result of the use of modern wireless technologies, Strelets LLC quickly created a reliable security system at the international forum of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Uralmashzavod chose Strelets

The largest industrial enterprise of national importance was fully equipped with the Strelets radio channel system.


"Uralmashplant" / Photo: i-korotchenko.livejournal.com


Decisive factors for choosing Sagittarius:

  • Installation in a short time (no need to lay cable lines and wires).
  • No false alarms (for example, welding work leads to interference in long wires - a kind of antenna for interference).
  • Possibility of stage-by-stage reconstruction of buildings without disrupting communication lines of security systems.

Wireless and traditional technologies of the Sagittarius-Sentry system provide a qualitatively new level of security for defense complex facilities.



Several years ago, the Russian government drew attention to the Kuril Islands as a Russian outpost in Far East, deciding to create (primarily in Iturup and Kunashir) an updated military and social infrastructure- on the basis that existed since Soviet times.

Construction work in the active phase began in the second half of 2014. In a relatively short time, the contractors Spetsstroy Rossii and Instrakt-Proekt carried out the preparatory stage for the normal operation of construction departments. Temporary comfortable housing was prepared for workers and engineering staff (two residential camps are now functioning). Meals are provided in the canteens, a bathhouse and laundries with dryers (an important point in the Kuril Islands with their unstable and dank weather). The necessary contingent of qualified specialists was delivered, mainly from the mainland, and placed: from drivers to carpenters and concrete workers. We delivered building materials, fuels and lubricants and the necessary new construction equipment: truck cranes, excavators, bulldozers, dump trucks, etc. And the construction process began - both in the village of Goryachiye Klyuchi and in Burevestnik.

Excavation pits appeared and the foundations of buildings began to be built. But then for a while construction work Ah, there was a pause due to the fact that the Russian Ministry of Defense decided to increase the number of construction projects in all areas of the military-social infrastructure in the Kuril Islands. And this led to the need to expand the built-up areas and, accordingly, carry out additional surveys and design work.

Construction has resumed today. A residential complex of two-story buildings continues to be built in Goryachiye Klyuchi. At the first stage, six such buildings should be built. The basis for them is steel frames sheathed with lightweight hinged panels. Such structures are safe during earthquakes: they are designed to withstand tremors of up to nine points or more. In parallel, all engineering networks are connected to them: electrical, thermal, water supply and drainage.

It is planned to begin construction of a leisure and sports center in the near future; next in line is a hospital with 100 beds (recruitment of medical and nursing staff is already underway), a school and a kindergarten. Will be created and opened sports grounds. That is, everything will be done to ensure that military personnel and their families, as well as civilian service personnel, do not feel cut off from the mainland. One thing will be required of them - to serve and work more effectively than in the past. To intensify construction work in the future, another camp for 150 people should be installed (more than 300 people are currently working) and the number of construction equipment should be added in anticipation of the warm season that is already beginning. But in order to accommodate the above objects, that is, to prepare construction sites for them, according to the construction management, it is necessary to demolish a number of existing old buildings and relocate utility networks.

In addition to social facilities, active construction of military training camps and parks for military equipment, storage facilities and warehouses for various purposes. It is planned that some objects will be presented for acceptance by the state commission by the summer of this year.

It should be noted that more than 30 years have passed since the Soviet period of construction of military camps on the Kuril Islands. People with such experience have been out of work for a long time, and a new generation of military builders is only gaining experience in conducting construction work in a distant region with their own special climatic conditions. Of course, no one is happy about delays in the supply of building materials. It is the delivery of materials that accounts for a significant share of construction costs. Most of them are absent on the island, and those that are available on Iturup, for example, inert materials, according to laboratory findings of Spetsstroy of Russia, are not suitable for use everywhere due to their insufficient strength and frost resistance. Local materials can be used for backfilling, for some types of bases, for example, road ones. They cannot be used in the manufacture of critical structures, so military builders are forced to import the same crushed stone from overseas, from Vladivostok. It is clear that such logistics are very expensive, although the material itself is quite inexpensive.

The bulk of construction materials arrives on the island through the port terminal "Kurilsk", which allows JSC "Gidrostroy", which services it, to earn decent money from unloading ships. The port's cargo turnover in 2015 amounted to about 70 thousand tons, of which construction materials for military builders accounted for approximately 45-50 percent. A number of island entrepreneurs who have their own freight vehicles also make money by transporting cargo from the port to Goryachiye Klyuchi and Burevestnik (not the shortest shoulder by local standards). Of course, this is good for everyone involved in the delivery of materials. However, this situation does not suit the construction organizers much, and it is clear for what reasons. Let me remind you that during the years of the USSR, cargo ships were unloaded almost next to construction sites in Kasatka Bay; temporary mooring structures were used, which, by the way, coped well with the assigned tasks. Today we are talking about the need to build a capital deep-water berth similar to the one at the port of Kurilsk (after all, cargo needs to be delivered not only for construction, but also for the regular supply of troops), and such a decision, according to our information, has already been made. In a good way, such a pier was needed “yesterday,” but better late than never.

The builders were faced with an eternal Kuril problem- sending people on vacation when changing shifts and going on vacation. As always, there are difficulties in purchasing tickets in both directions, both for air transport and for sea transport. The management is trying to get around them, at least by organizing expensive charter flights, but this is not always possible, since everyone knows the situation with the availability of free “boards” at Aurora Airlines.

It must be said that due to the reduction in the winter of 2015-2016. construction work in Kurilsk and Reidovo, some people with construction specialties went to work at Spetsstroy of Russia in Goryachye Klyuchi. Of course, its personnel service does not hire everyone, but makes a selection, but there is an opportunity for employment for local people. Information about vacancies is submitted to the Kuril Employment Center.

Significant for the island budget is the fact that Spetsstroy of Russia has established its Iturup construction divisions (Main Department No. 2 and Spetsstroy-Service) in the Kuril region. So income taxes individuals workers working in these organizations will be supplied to the region.

We would like to add that Spetsstroy of Russia is carrying out almost the same amount of construction on the neighboring island of Kunashir.

The Japanese Foreign Ministry has already responded to this information, saying that Tokyo is “closely monitoring the movement of Russian troops” and is studying the issue of building a Russian Navy base in the Kuril Islands. So why does Russia need a base in the Kuril Islands, the appearance of which will certainly provoke discontent on the Japanese side, and where will it be located?

Let's start with the fact that from a military point of view, the Kuril Islands should be considered a strategic territory, if only because on these borders with our closest neighbor Japan we still do not have a peace treaty, and the islands of Kunashir, Shikotan, Iturup and the Habomai Tokyo archipelago are still considers it its “northern territories”. At the same time, the United States has its military installations on the territory of Japan itself.

In particular, it is of great strategic importance for the United States Japanese island Okinawa. In fact, this is the Pentagon's outpost in the Pacific Ocean. It has a whole network of military bases, training grounds and airfields. There is a US military airbase called Kadena, which plays an important role for the American presence in Southeast Asia. In addition, approximately 16,000 U.S. Marines serve at Camp Hansen, Camp Schwab and Camp Zuckeran. In total, about 30,000 thousand American troops are stationed in Okinawa - approximately half of the entire US military contingent in Japan.

Even if we theoretically assume that a potential enemy seizes the Russian Kuril Islands, this immediately opens up for him a direct path to the entire territory of Russia from the side Pacific Ocean. That is why during the Soviet era the Kuril Islands were reliably protected by large groups of troops. In particular, a powerful division was stationed there Marine Corps. But then, with the collapse of the Union, the number of troops in the Kuril Islands began to rapidly decrease. It was expensive to supply troops from the center, the authorities rarely got there for inspections, and numerous reformers preferred to “cut” and “optimize” rather than prove the need to strengthen the Far Eastern group. So, in essence, the current decision to create a naval base here is just the restoration of the “status quo” - the previously existing situation.

It is known that today the 18th machine gun and artillery division, numbering up to three and a half thousand people, is based in the Kuril Islands. It is well equipped with self-propelled artillery, air defense systems, rocket artillery and tanks. An attack from the sea on the island of Kunashir can be repelled by the Bal complexes, and on the island of Iturup by the Bastion complexes.

In addition to missile systems, coastal units are reinforced with universal, highly automated Leer-3 complexes, which include control stations and Orlan-10 drones, which can be used by different types of troops - from motorized infantry and tank crews to electronic warfare units.

However, according to the military, for the anti-landing defense of the islands, as well as for a more tangible Russian military presence in the area, especially taking into account the fact that the Japanese still lay claim to them, it is still necessary to strengthen the naval group.

Now parts of the Pacific Fleet there are actually divided into two components - one is based in Vilyuchinsk, the other in Vladivostok. “An intermediate base is absolutely necessary,” says Alexander Khramchikhin, deputy director of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis.

It is not yet clear which of the Kuril Islands will become the location for the deployment of a new military facility for the Russian fleet. But the military department has been thinking about this task for a long time. Our sailors have more than once conducted multi-month expeditionary trips around the Bolshoi Islands Kuril ridge with the goal (Sergei Shoigu himself spoke about this) to study the possibility of a future basing of Pacific Fleet forces.

In particular, the joint expedition of the Ministry of Defense and Russian Geographical Society(by the way, like the military department, it is also headed by Sergei Shoigu) visited the island of Matua, which the Japanese used as a naval and air base during World War II.

Matua is an island in the middle of the Kuril chain, formed by volcanic activity. By the way, Japan does not lay claim to it, which is important if we consider the island as a potential location for a Russian Navy base. From this point of view, Matua is located very well. Three runways there still remain from the Japanese. And the participants of the joint expedition were quite surprised when they found that, taking into account the wind rose, even the most modern aircraft in almost any weather conditions.

According to a number of military experts, it is this island that will most likely be considered as the location of the new Russian base Navy.

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Image caption In 2010, the then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the Kuril Islands

Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Defense and Security of the Federation Council Franz Klintsevich announced the construction of a naval base in the Kuril Islands. This is not the first mention of a military facility on the islands; Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke about this earlier, but this is the first time this project has been talked about in the present tense.

“The decision has been made. It is under implementation,” Klintsevich said, without specifying where exactly the military facility will be located.

Perhaps he meant the island of Matua - a small piece of land in the center of the Kuril ridge. In 2016, Defense Minister Shoigu said that Russia intended not only to restore, but also to actively exploit this island.

By that time, a large expedition of the Russian Geographical Society and the Pacific Fleet (PF) had already visited the island. The second expedition began in the summer of 2017 and is still ongoing.

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“Specialists carried out more than 1,000 laboratory studies on physical, chemical and biological indicators, made more than 200 measurements of the relief and external environment. Radiation and chemical reconnaissance was also carried out, the fortifications of the island and more than 100 historical objects were examined. Divers carried out hydrographic research of the bays and bays of the island of Matua,” says the Russian Geographical Society’s website.

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Image caption Perhaps the naval base will be located on the island of Matua

The expedition reports talk a lot about the study of marine invertebrate animals and algae, the study of the activity of the Sarychev Peak volcano, but if the Ministry of Defense really intends to build a base on this island, then hydrographic studies of the seabed topography and the study of the remains of Japanese military structures are most likely especially important for it .

The new base will be capable of receiving any ships, including the first rank, Klintsevich said on Thursday, without specifying which ships will be based at this facility.

Ships of the first rank include aircraft carriers, destroyers, missile and anti-submarine cruisers, and nuclear submarines. For such deep-draft craft, the seabed really needs to be carefully prepared.

The ownership of some of the Kuril Islands by Russia is disputed by Japan. They went to the Soviet Union at the very end of World War II, when Soviet naval forces landed on the islands. The ownership of some of the islands was not secured by international treaties.

Japan claims the Kuril Islands Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and a group of small Habomai islands, citing the Shimonoseki Treaty of 1855. The Matua island that Shoigu spoke about does not belong to the group of disputed ones - it is located in another part of the ridge, in its central region.

Russia insists that the islands belong to it, citing the inadmissibility of revising the results of World War II.

Island as a base

The Kuril Islands are located in a strategically important area: they separate the Sea of ​​Okhotsk from the Pacific Ocean, as if blocking access to it from south coast Russian Far East.

During World War II, a powerful system of fortifications, airfields, and naval bases was built on the islands. One of the objects was located just on Matua - coastal concrete fortifications, the remains of an airfield, warehouses, and shelters still remain on the island.

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Image caption Traces of Japanese field fortifications remain on Matua

During Soviet times and until 2001, there was a border post on the island, but in last years the island remained uninhabited.

Currently, the 18th machine gun and artillery division (the only such formation in the Russian army) is deployed on the Kuril Islands with reinforcement units in Iturup and Kunashir. Recently, Bal and Bastion coastal missile systems, as well as Buk anti-aircraft systems, were deployed on the islands. The Bastion complex was located on the island of Iturup, and the Bal complex was located on Kunashir.

Matua is not the most comfortable place to live or even to build a military base. Strong winds blow on the island; there are no large convenient bays on the coast. Finally, all Northern part a small island - a volcano that last erupted quite recently - in 2009.

The island is located at a great distance from supply bases, and communication with it, especially in the winter months, is difficult due to the fact that the Sea of ​​Okhotsk freezes in this place.

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Image caption Eruption of the Sarychev Peak volcano on the island of Matua in 2009

In any case, building a large base on it will be extremely expensive.

However, Russia appears ready to spend. On the one hand, the Kremlin has long been striving to expand its military presence in the World Ocean. And the Pacific region, which has attracted more and more attention in recent years, is extremely important for Russia.

For example, one of the two amphibious helicopter carriers that Russia intended to purchase from France was to be based in the Pacific Fleet.

“When I served in the Far East, the issue of placing a naval formation of the Pacific Fleet on the Kuril Islands was considered. It is profitable to create a base on the islands for the only reason - direct access to the ocean. Of the places that were determined to be suitable for it in terms of geometry, the difficulties were the following. The first - difficult ice conditions in winter. The second is the ebb and flow of tides of about six meters. The third is strong winds," former commander of the Baltic Fleet Admiral Vladimir Valuev said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

During the times of the USSR, which had a larger Pacific Fleet than Russia is now, a large military base was never built on the Kuril Islands.

Russia's second goal is to gain a foothold on the Kuril Islands themselves. The unresolved issue with the Kuril Islands hinders the development of relations between the two countries; it is raised every time by Moscow and Tokyo and clearly makes both sides very nervous.

What kind of base can Russia afford?

Speaking about the scale of the future facility, Senator Franz Klintsevich said that the new base will be capable of receiving any ships, including the first rank.

At the same time, Klintsevich used the word “base”, that is, he meant a fairly large facility, which should include not only berths, but also infrastructure for technical ship maintenance, ideally - a dock and ship repair yard, barracks for housing crews and base personnel, air defense units and an airfield.

And all this is on an island with an area of ​​52 square kilometers, a significant part of which is occupied by a volcano.

Senior researcher at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the Higher School of Economics, Vasily Kashin, told the BBC that as a result, only a small logistics and technical support center for ships may appear on Matua, in Syria, and Russia will invest money in already existing bases of the Pacific fleet.

There are five of them in the Far East - in Vladivostok, Fokino, Vilyuchinsk (nuclear submarines are based there), Sovetskaya Gavan and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

“Maybe it will be a harbor where there will be several piers, again we don’t know how many; there will be an icebreaker and a couple of tugs, and some small forces will be constantly deployed,” he said.

At the same time, Kashin noted that even if, for example, a large anti-submarine ship (first rank) can approach the island, it is still unknown how many such ships can be serviced there at the same time and what volume of service they can receive there.