Indigenous Tent in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia

SM Korchunov

 

«The Northern Forum is a key platform for addressing relevant issues of the Arctic territories development and northern nature conservation».

 

Nikolay Korchunov,

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Kingdom of Norway

News

What is the Power of Siberia?

Details

мап-силасиб

On September 1, the president of Russia Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, Vice Premier of Chinese State Council Zhang Gaoli and  top management of Gazprom state corporation have visited Yakutsk to launch the new gas project “Power of Siberia”. 

This scale project aimed at opening of new markets in the Asia-Pacific region, “Power of Siberia” will be a general gas- transport system to Irkutsk and Yakutsk (Chayanda field) gas production centers and will transport  gas via Khabarovsk  to Vladivostok.

At the first stage there will be main gas pipeline “Yakutia- Khabarovsk- Vladivostok”, which is planned to be operational in 2017. The second stage is connection of Irkutsk gas pipe line center with Yakut center.
The track of “Power of Siberia” will go along the route of existing ESPO pipeline. The pipeline will made of domestically produced pipes. On the construction of the first “Power of Siberia” will be involved approximately 11 700 specialists, moreover this pipeline will be used about by 3000 people.    

Technical characteristics of the pipeline:

The length is about 4,000 km (Yakutia-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok-about 3200 km, Irkutsk Oblast (Irkutsk region)- Yakutia, about 800km)
Pipe diameter 1420 mm;
The working pressure is 9.8 MPa (100 ATM.);
Performance – 61 billion cubic meters of gas per year.

Source: http://news.ykt.ru/article/24214

 

The scientific and practical confe...
15 Apr 2025
The scientific and practical conference

On April 11, 2025, the XVIII school scientific and practical conference "Tagore Readings" was held on the basis of the Secondary School No 653 with in-depth study of foreign languages (Hindi and English) [ ... ]

News
Model UN in Yakutia was held on Ma...
09 Apr 2025
Model UN in Yakutia was held on March 26-28, 2025

On March 26-28, Open Educational and Research Conference of Schoolchildren on Diplomacy and International Relations "Model UN in Yakutia" was held. The venue of the conference became the hall of the Academic [ ... ]

News
Results of the XIV Interregional O...
08 Apr 2025
Results of the XIV Interregional Olympiad

The results of the XIV Interregional Olympiad "School of Life in the North" have been summed up. The theme of the Olympiad was "Climate Change: Challenges, New Opportunities". 100 students from 11 schools [ ... ]

News
Vladimir Vasilev addresses a sessi...
27 Mar 2025
Vladimir Vasilev addresses a session of the 6th International Arctic Forum, The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue international forum

 

Today, 27 March, Vladimir Vasilev, Executive Director of the Northern Forum, addressed the session on the development of international cooperation within the framework of Vladimir Vasilev spoke [ ... ]

Northern Forum
Vladimir Vasilev met with Director...
24 Mar 2025
Vladimir Vasilev met with Director of the Department of Pan-European Cooperation Vladislav Maslennikov

 

Today, 24 March, Northern Forum Executive Director Vladimir Vasilev met with Vladislav Maslennikov, Director of the Department of Pan-European Cooperation, the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry.

News
The business and scientific forum ...
20 Mar 2025
The business and scientific forum

 

On 20 March, the main event of the Northern Forum-India programme - the business and scientific forum "Uniting North and South for Sustainable Development" - began in New Delhi, India.

Northern Forum

Announcements

Business and scientific forum will ...

The Northern Forum Regional Coordin...

UN Climate Change Conference 2024 C...

The 5th NSDF - Yakutsk, September 2...

More

Upcoming Events

Disclaimer

The events list is provided as an non-parcial overview of upcoming events in and about the Arctic and the North, for the interest and benefit of all stakeholders.
The events listed and their administration are the responsibility of the individual events organisers.
All content on the events website, a link may be provided to through this events calendar, is the sole responsibility of the individual organiser.

  

Members News Partners News Youth Forum News Northern Forum News

Members of the Northern Forum

6th Northern Sustainable Development Forum

II half of 2025
Yakutsk, Russia

Board of Governors
Regional Coordinators Committee (RCC)
Business Partners
Goodwill Ambassadors
Northern Youth Forum

Northern Youth Forum

The Northern Youth Forum (NYF) is a youth wing of the Northern Forum, consisting of representatives of young people from the age of 16 to 40 years.

Mission of the NYF is to strengthen the spirit of trust and cooperation between young representatives of Northern regions and countries at the stage of personal and professional views’ formation.

Goal of the NYF is to promote the interests and views of young people in solving the problems facing the Northern Forum by using the potential of international youth cooperation.

Read more