Published on: 2026-08-28
Source: Government of the Russian Federation –
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The modernization of housing and communal services is being carried out in the regions of Russia, including through the use of federal support instruments. Thus, thanks to attracting concessional loans from the National Wealth Fund (NWF) and support from the federal budget, works on the modernization of communal infrastructure at 52 sites in the Arctic zone regions have been completed, which has improved the quality of life for more than 200 thousand people. The operator of these programs under the supervision of the Ministry of Construction is the Territorial Development Fund. This was reported by Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.
“The work on the modernization of housing and communal services in the Arctic zone is a special responsibility. Despite all the difficulties, the regions are coping well with the assigned tasks. To date, two boiler houses, treatment facilities, as well as 64 km of water supply, heat supply, and wastewater networks have been built and modernized there thanks to the attraction of preferential loans funded by the National Welfare Fund amounting to 2.15 billion rubles and federal budget funds of 1.03 billion rubles. The commissioning of these facilities has allowed for the provision of quality heat and water supply services to more than 200,000 citizens living in Arctic territories, including the Murmansk region, Yamalo-Nenets and Chukotka Autonomous Districts, the Komi Republic, Karelia, and other regions. I am confident that a systematic approach to the modernization of housing and communal services facilities will enable the fulfillment of the President’s tasks to improve the quality of communal services for 20 million Russians by 2030,” said Marat Khusnullin.
The repayment of borrowed funds from the National Welfare Fund and the financial condition of resource-supplying organizations are under constant scrutiny. These issues are regularly reviewed at the government commission headquarters chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister.
“Loans from NWF funds are provided to regions of the Arctic zone at a preferential rate of 3% per annum, which makes infrastructure modernization more affordable for Arctic territories. Thanks to these loans and support from the federal budget, people in cities and towns of the Arctic regions receive reliable heat supply and clean water. For example, one of the key completed projects in the housing and utilities sector in the Arctic zone was the treatment facilities with a capacity of 650 cubic meters per day in the village of Snezhnogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai. This facility already ensures environmental safety and reliable wastewater disposal for hundreds of families,” said Vasily Kupyzin, CEO of the Territorial Development Fund.
The foundation’s specialists regularly monitor the work on housing and communal services modernization, including through on-site visits and analytics based on the FRT automated information system.
The modernization of utility infrastructure in the Arctic and the Far East is part of the national project “Infrastructure for Life.” The activities of the national project are synchronized with the party “United Russia’s” people’s program, which keeps the updating and construction of urban facilities and key utility infrastructure objects under constant supervision.
Work on the modernization of communal services continues. The focus of the Federal Project Team includes, among other things, the sustainable reduction of uninhabitable housing stock and the improvement of the reliability of engineering systems in the northernmost regions of the country.
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