Country leaders about the Project
D.A. Medvedev, President of the Russian
Extract from the opening speech at the meeting dedicated to the questions of social and economic development of the Urals Federal district
December 11, 2008, Kurgan
" ...I want to stress once again that all of the strategic social and economic development projects in the Urals Federal District must continue, including those concerning the development of the Arctic and sub-Arctic Urals. One of the most well-known of the projects already prepared is the Industrial Urals-Polar Urals project… This is a very forward-looking project that aims at streamlining the relations between the main links in the industrial production chain in the Urals, developing the minerals and raw materials resources of the eastern slopes of the Urals, supplying raw materials to the metals and machine-building enterprises of the mid and southern Urals, and increasing the entire region's economic and social stability in general..."
V.V. Putin, Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation
Extract from the opening speech at the meeting dedicated to the questions of social and economic development of the Urals Federal district
May 16, 2005, Chelyabinsk
" ...The Urals has undoubtedly been a locomotive of Russia's industrial development throughout its history… The well-established industrial potential of the district is so rich, that it ought to be one of the most thriving regions of Russia. One of the advantages is that district's production is in full demand both in the Russian domestic and the world markets.
Objectively the District should remain the center of investment attraction - both domestic and the foreign ones.
I am convinced that in order to put into operation all the richest potential of the Urals, to achieve its breaking through development, we need new in essence approaches and attractive prospective projects, laying the solid foundation of growth for decades. For that we need to widen the horizons of our possibilities, search both for the new spheres of capital investment and the additional sources of growth of the regional economy.
Development of transport system in the region should correspond with the strategic long-term interests of the whole Russian economy. The strong arterial grid is Russia's wide access to the world raw materials and production markets, as well as integration to the global transport corridors".
B.V. Gryzlov, Chairman of the State Duma
of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Extract from the interview with the newspaper "Parlamentskaya gazeta", 20.06.2007
" ...The priority should be given to those projects that are not simply oriented for raw materials' export, but propose to create general processing productions. And we have examples of such an approach. The "Ural Industrial - Ural Polar" Project, that was thoroughly discussed on the VII Congress of the "United Russia" party and gained unanimous approval, is among them. Construction of the new transport corridor along the Eastern slope of the Ural mountains - with the railroad as a core part of it - will give access to the rich Subpolar deposits. Owing to this the transport part used to deliver ores to the Ural metallurgical works will be shortened by more than 1000 km. This fact cardinally improves economic parameters of a whole range of investment projects in metallurgy, machine building and other fields..."
Extract from the interview with the "Moscow news", 27.07.2007
" ...One of the most striking examples is the "Ural Industrial - Ural Polar" project. Its basic objective is creation of facilities for industrial development of the Urals Federal District by drawing new deposits of industrial minerals into the economic turnover… The explored deposits allow satisfying Russia's needs in chromites and to a considerable degree - manganese ores. The Urals has oil, gas, phosphates necessary for fertilizers' production and many more. The "Ural Industrial - Ural Polar" projects offers a solution of this problem on the basis of private and state partnership… Implementation of this programme will significantly shorten by more than a thousand kilometers) the transport leg and, therefore, reduce the cost of raw materials. Owing to this fact the situation in the processing sector is going to improve. According to the specialists investments to the enterprises' modernization will rise 4-5-fold. This will allow using the competitive advantages of the region - that are made not only of mineral resources deposits, but also of high qualification of working personnel, rich traditions, culture of industrial production - in a more effective..."
Extract from the Speech at the XI Congress of the All-Russian Political party "United Russia", 21.11. 2009
" ...The major programme is the "Ural Industrial - Ural Polar". It is a real example of private and state partnership..."
N.A.Vinnichenko, Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Urals Federal district
Extract from the interview with the "Industrialist of Russia" magazine, 16.02.2010
" ...The main goal of the project is to create a unite infrastructure for further development of the northern territories, their economic diversification, completion of Russia's transport system formation… The comprehensive investment project implementation will become the basis of the Urals Federal District territories' economic modernization, improvement of life quality for people living in the Urals and Western Siberia..."
Extract from the interview with the "RBC" TV-channel, 09.03.2010
" ...Our project "Ural Industrial - Ural Polar" that will allow connecting economies of the northern regions into one whole and providing a modernization approach that will lay foundation for the future development of the regions, incorporated into "Russia's development strategy up to 2020", is the basic line of work on economic diversification..."