Industrial Development of the Arctic VS Traditional Way of Life: Experience of Managing Socio-Economic Development in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Abstract

 The paper reports the results of the analysis of the regional legislative framework for the development of the Arctic in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The main directions of regional regulation of the socio-economic development of the Arctic territories are: support of the indigenous population; regulation of the presence of subsoil users within the region’s authority and development of the social sphere. At the same time, insufficient attention is paid to the programs of development of entrepreneurship and increase of employment of the permanent population. Relations of the local population, including the indigenous population, with subsoil users are built mainly in the framework of compensatory interaction, and with the state – subsidized. Regional policy is more focused on the implementation of megaprojects and megaprograms without the involvement of local residents in the industrial development of the territories. To determine the strategic vector of the Asian Arctic development it is important to find points of convergence of interests and opportunities for interaction between all participants of the process: authorities of all levels, companies – subsoil users, the population of the Arctic regions, while paying attention to the systematization of regulatory and legal acts and their comprehensiveness.