Participants in a meeting chaired by Minister of Regional Development Igor Slyunyayev discussed the implementation of the federal targeted programme to increase the durability of residential buildings, basic facilities and infrastructure components in earthquake prone areas in 2009-2018.
The Ministry of Regional Development, which has the status of a contractor and a programme coordinator, constantly monitors compliance with the specific deadlines of capital construction projects, financing terms under contracts signed with Russian regions, and ensures the targeted allocation of federal budget funding set for 2013.
In all, the federal targeted programme will receive 79.9 billion roubles. Twenty-seven Russian regions are involved in implementing the programme’s measures. Under the programme, favourable conditions are created and mechanisms are upgraded to ensure the required seismic safety levels during construction in earthquake prone areas. Residential buildings, basic facilities and infrastructure components, public facilities, other buildings and structures, and part of the emergency response system, are reinforced. Earthquake resistant facilities are built to replace those that can not be made earthquake resistant or upgraded.
Since the programme’s inception, 119 facilities have been opened. In 2013, the construction of Secondary School No 2 in Khorinsk in the Republic of Buryatia will continue. A school for 1,260 students will be built in the city of Karachayevsk in the Karachayevo-Circassian Republic. Secondary School No 3 in the rural town of Yandar in the Nazran District of the Republic of Ingushetia will be made earthquake resistant. A secondary school for 320 students in the village of Prigorodnoye in the Grozny District of the Chechen Republic will also be made earthquake resistant. Three 120-flat residential buildings will be constructed in the Vostochny Quarter of the city of Kyzyl in the Republic of Tuva. Two kindergartens will be built in the city of Kyzyl. And a kindergarten will also be constructed in the village of Saryg-Sep in the Kaa-Khem District of the Republic of Tuva. Other facilities will also be built. In 2013, there are plans to upgrade 25 facilities and to make them earthquake resistant as well as to build two new facilities.
Source: Ministry of Regional Development
