Military facilities on the Kuril Islands work. Construction of military facilities on the islands of the Kuril chain. In the Kuril Islands - one owner

The Russian authorities intend to allocate an additional 16 billion rubles for the development of the 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- most south island The Great Ridge of the Kuril Islands.
Population - approx. 8000 people.
Yuzhno-Kurilsk- administrative center of the South Kuril Okrug.

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 accommodate all services working with 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, not everything on the Kuril Islands 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 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.

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 of what had existed since Soviet times.

Construction work in the active phase began in the second half of 2014. For relatively a short time With the help of contracting organizations: "Spetsstroy Rossii" and "Instrakt-Proekt" - a preparatory stage was carried out 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 canteens, bathhouses and laundries with dryers ( important point in the Kuril Islands with their unstable and chilly weather). The necessary contingent of qualified specialists was delivered, mainly from the mainland, and housed: 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 some time, there was a pause in construction work 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. Outdoor sports grounds will also be created. 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 construction organizers are not happy with it, 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.

Builders were faced with the age-old 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, working in these organizations, will come to the region.

Let us add that, with the help of Spetsstroy Rossii, almost the same volume of construction is being carried out on neighboring island Kunashir.

Illustration copyright AFP 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 Russian expedition had already visited the island. Geographical Society and the Pacific Fleet (PF). 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.

Illustration copyright Google 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 got it Soviet Union at the very end of World War II, when Soviet naval troops 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 Pacific Ocean, as if blocking the exit to him from south coast Russian Far East.

During World War II, a powerful system fortifications, airfields, naval bases. 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.

Illustration copyright Google Image caption Traces of Japanese field fortifications remain on Matua

IN Soviet time 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 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.

Illustration copyright NASA 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 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 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 the maintenance of ships, ideally a dock and ship repair plant, barracks for accommodating crews and base personnel, air defense units and 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.

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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.

Scope valid until 2015 Federal Target Program "Socio-economic development of the Kuril Islands for 2007-2015" amounts to 21 billion rubles.

The bulk of this amount is allocated from the federal budget. The Sakhalin Region also plans to attract funds from private investors for the development of the Kuril Islands. Private investment in the islands’ economy now amounts to a billion rubles a year, and by 2015 it will increase to 6 billion. details about the new infrastructure of the Kuril Islands (many photos) The Kuril 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 of the South Kuril Okrug.

Social housing

In August 2012, a ceremony for presenting warrants and keys to new apartments took place in Yuzhno-Kurilsk. The 10-apartment building was built with funds from the regional and local budgets under one of the regional programs.
House of Culture (medical and educational expedition “Borders of Russia”, August 2010)
New kindergarten Port of Yuzhno-Kurilsk New deep-water pier

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)
Construction is underway with funds from the federal program for the socio-economic development of the Kuril Islands and the budget of the Sakhalin region marine terminal on the territory of the constructed mooring complex in the South Kuril Bay. In addition to passengers, this building will house various services - a border checkpoint, a customs post, port supervision, administration and a control room. seaport. Completion of construction is planned for 2012.

Mendeleevo Airport The airfield was built by the Japanese when the island of Kunashir 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, within the framework of the Federal Target Program for the socio-economic development of the Kuril Islands, a new passenger terminal, taxiways, a new apron, a runway (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. The planned modernization of the Mendeleevskaya Geothermal Power Plant will increase its capacity from 3.6 MW to 7.4 MW.
On about. Kunashir operates two fish processing plants - LLC PKF "South Kuril Fish Processing Plant" and LLC "Delta". The Yuzhno-Kuril Fish Processing Plant has modernized its production processing lines. All fish and seafood caught by its own trawl fleet are delivered ashore without loss of quality. Integrated shift of 25 people successfully copes with large volumes of incoming raw materials. In 2011, the first kilometers of asphalt were laid on Kunashir Island.

Iturup Island-an island of the southern group of the Great Ridge of the Kuril Islands, the largest island of the archipelago. Population - 6387 people. Kurilsk- the administrative center of the island. In recent years, a modern microdistrict “Severny” has been built in the village of Kurilsk. It is planned to build within its boundaries Grand Palace culture and sports, under the roof of which there will be a sports complex, a swimming pool, a cultural center and other institutions. 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, which allows 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. There are several other fishing enterprises, the largest of which are Skit, Bug, and Continent. The buildings of the Kuril Secondary School for 250 students have already been built on the island, as well as a modern central regional hospital with 50 beds and a clinic for 100 visits per shift. New hospital
Sports complex

improvement work

In February 2012, two 8-apartment buildings were put into operation
New airport“Iturup” is located on the sunny side of the island, which will allow you to easily get to the island even in bad weather. The extended 2.2 km long runway will accommodate all types of aircraft operating in the region. Near Kurilsk there is a geothermal spring with radon waters.
A few years ago, the springs consisted of two concrete vats for salting fish, in which vacationers took baths, not forgetting to litter the surrounding area with broken bottle glass. Geothermal springs were improved by the company "Gidrostoroy"
Shikotan Island- the largest island of the Malaya ridge of the Kuril Islands. Malokurilskoe- the administrative center of the island. Population - approx. 2100 people. Using funds from the federal program, a deep-water pier has already been built and is being operated in Malokurilskaya Bay on Shikotan, and in the neighboring Krabozavodskaya Bay on the same Shikotan, the construction of a pier is nearing completion on co-financing terms - the own funds of Gidrostroy JSC and the regional budget.

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 places (2010)

with each construction project it becomes more and more difficult to count... As previously reported, Spetsstroy was going to rebuild a number of military facilities in the Sakhalin region, among them completely autonomous military camps with residential buildings and dormitories, barracks, related infrastructure, cultural, leisure and sports institutions. How these intentions are being implemented in practice can be learned from the November publications related to the Ministry of Defense. They, in particular, say that the management of the Federal Agency for Special Construction of Russia and the director of Spetsstroy, Volosov A., after an inspection trip to the Southern Kuril Islands in the middle of the year, assured that the problems with construction had been resolved, the timing and order of delivery of social and military facilities had been determined, and thus Thus, everything that is planned for the rearmament of the group of Russian troops in the Southern Kuril Islands will be done! There are a lot of plans, judge for yourself:

Kitovaya Bay.

On Iturup, in the military town of the village of Kitovoe, a contract dated 2012 provides for the construction of dormitories for officers and soldiers, a division headquarters, a checkpoint, a first-aid post, storage facilities and depots for fuels and lubricants, a food plant, training parade grounds and grounds, a large educational building, a sports training complex, etc. . according to the tender for the comprehensive development of a military camp. All this must be completed and put into operation by the contractor. no later than November 15, 2015. More than 3 billion rubles were transferred in advance for construction under the terms of the contract. However, not a penny reached the subcontractors. There are no design estimates for which the general contractor is responsible, no technical conditions and working documentation for the projects, and no working resources: of the required number of 700 builders, about a third are on site. The general contractors of the FSUE Spetsstroyengineering, GUIR No. 2 (organizations subordinate to Spetsstroy) arrived at the construction site only in July of this year, as if preparing for the inspection check.

military unit in the village of Goryachiy Plyazh. Kunashir

The delay in completing planned work is colossal; almost a year, it is impossible to catch up with such a backlog in local conditions, in addition, failure to meet deadlines is fraught with the collection of a large penalty. Well, the military will not receive many long-awaited residential infrastructure facilities - dormitories and barracks facilities. It turns out that soldiers and officers will have to serve in tents, as is now happening in Primorye due to the fault of Spetsstroy? At the facilities of the economic zone, training and material base, missile and artillery weapons warehouse, the territory where a group of support vessels is based and engineering and technical support facilities construction works didn't start at all. Or maybe in Kunashir the contractors of Spetsstroy “Spetsstroyengineering” and GUIR No. 2 meet the deadlines?

military unit in the village of Lagunnoye, Kunashir.

Here, under a similar contract from 2012, the same military-based infrastructure must be delivered by 2015. The advance for this project was also received in full, but by November a temporary administrative camp had been set up for only 20 people and some construction materials had been brought in. Construction in Kunashir requires about 600 specialists, but only 30 people work. A strange situation has arisen... For some reason, the Military Department is tolerating the unrest and confusion occurring in Spetsstroy. And endless commissions, meetings, approvals between the military and the management of the builders are simply meaningless. For the reason that, according to the military, different people constantly come to all these events, often having nothing to do with the fulfillment of the contract. Since 2012, four subcontractors have changed at the Kuril construction sites, while the military department has not received any reports on the funds disbursed from any of them.... Meanwhile, the disruption of work on the islands of Kunashir and Iturup directly affects plans for military construction and ensuring national security on our eastern borders.