Gubkin University (Moscow, Russia)

Novoselov A. L., Professor, Doctor of Economic Sciences

Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (Moscow, Russia)

Potravny I. M., Professor, Doctor of Economic Sciences, ecoaudit@bk.ru

Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia)

Novoselova I. Yu., Professor, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor

The article discusses the issue connected with the harmonization of concerns of the subsoil users and local people in the course of mineral mining in the Arctic. The Russian mining, processing and transportation companies engage themselves in dynamic development of the previously commercially unaddressed Arctic regions where new deposits of hydrocarbons and rare earth metals are discovered. Economic activity in underpopulated regions in the Arctic requires that the interests of the parties concerned are coordinated through implementation of socially-oriented projects for the indigenous peoples. As a case-study of the Tiksi–Naiba agglomeration being developed as a logistics hub for transportation of minerals along the Northern Sea Route in the Arctic zone of Yakutia, an optimization model and an algorithm are proposed for compiling a set of social projects for the local population. The model includes the project scheduling with regard to their priorities, costs and implementation periods. The estimation mechanism is developed for the negative factors that affect the size of investment and the efficiency of projects. It is proposed to recalculate the sequence of projects and to perform their integrated outcome evaluation using the index of the lost benefit of population. This index is meant for the ranking of negative factors in the risk rating matrix for the further efficient management of the project implementation. The proposed algorithms and procedures are aimed at the materialization of terms and conditions declared in the Concept of Sustainable Development for the Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation over the period to 2036, approved in 2025.

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