Military construction on the Kuril Islands. Construction of military facilities on the islands of the Kuril chain. The Pacific Fleet is recovering, but slowly

The Russian authorities intend to allocate an additional 16 billion rubles for the development of the Kuril Islands.
The governor announced this Sakhalin region Alexander Khoroshavin after a working meeting held in Kurilsk with the participation of members of the Russian government, dedicated to the implementation Federal Target Program “Socio-economic development of the Kuril Islands for 2007-2015”.

13 billion rubles of this amount are planned to be allocated from the federal budget, the remaining 3 billion rubles from the local budget. The Sakhalin Region also plans to attract funds from private investors for the development of the Kuril Islands. They, according to Khoroshavin, will be interested in the development of such industries as marine biological resources and tourism.

The volume of the Federal Target Program for the development of the Kuril Islands, valid until 2015, is 15 billion rubles (investments from the federal budget).
The main directions of the program are the development of transport infrastructure, social sphere and energy.

details about the new infrastructure of the Kuril Islands (many photos)

Kurile Islands- include 30 large and many small islands.
The population lives permanently only in Paramushir, Iturup, Kunashir and Shikotan.
Population of the Kuril Islands - 18,735 people

Kunashir Island- most south island The Great Ridge of the Kuril Islands.
Population - approx. 8000 people.
Yuzhno-Kurilsk- administrative center of the South Kuril Okrug.

A Friendship Center was built to receive delegations

Free social housing

House of Culture
(medical and educational expedition “Borders of Russia”, August 2010)

Opening of a new kindergarten
Governor of the Sakhalin Region Alexander Khoroshavin (right)

Port of Yuzhno-Kurilsk

New deep-water berth

The commissioning of modern deep-water berthing complexes in Kunashir and Iturup will lead to high-quality new level transport infrastructure in the Kuril Islands and will improve the quality of life on the islands.
The motor ship "Igor Farkhutdinov" moored at the new pier for the first time
(February 2011)

Airport "Mendeleevo"
The airfield was built by the Japanese when Kunashir Island was still under Japanese control and has hardly been rebuilt since then.
In 2006 it was closed due to complete deterioration of the infrastructure and destruction of the runway.
During the reconstruction, as part of the Federal Targeted Program for the socio-economic development of the Kuril Islands, a new passenger terminal, taxiways, a new apron, a runway, a landing system and lighting equipment were put into operation.

Operates on the island Mendeleevskaya GeoTPP(geothermal power plant), which provides the island with heat and electricity.
Volcano energy as a source of heat and light for humans is the operating principle of this station.
Commissioning of the second stage of the station in 2007 provided 100% of the heat demand in Yuzhno-Kurilsk.
By 2011, it is planned to modernize and introduce additional capacities, as a result of which the total capacity of the facility will almost triple - from 1.8 MW to 5 MW.

Iturup Island-island of the southern group of the Great Ridge of the Kuril Islands, the most large island archipelago.
Population - 6387 people.
Kurilsk

Kitovaya Bay

In 2006, the modern fish processing complex “Reidovo” was launched on the island..
Six air freezing chambers ensure the production of 74 tons of finished frozen fish products per day.

On about. Iturup also houses the Yasny fish processing plant, equipped with a one-of-a-kind freezing tunnel for air freezing of fish, allowing the continuous freezing of 210 tons of finished fish products per day.
There is a caviar workshop where 3 tons of caviar are produced per day. In addition, there is a salting shop with a capacity of 25 tons per day and a refrigerator with a capacity of 2300 tons of simultaneous storage.

The buildings of the Kuril Secondary School for 250 students have already been built on the island, as well as a modern central regional hospital with 50 beds and a clinic for 100 visits per shift.
New hospital

Sports complex

landscaping of a park in the city center

Governor's working trip

The construction of an airport continues in Iturup, which will be equipped with the latest technology. The new air gates are located on the sunny side of the island, which will allow easy access to Iturup even in bad weather. The extended 2.2 km long runway will accommodate all types of aircraft operating in the region.

Shikotan Island- the largest island of the Malaya ridge of the Kuril Islands.
Malokurilskoe- the administrative center of the island.
Population - approx. 2100 people.
Development of mooring infrastructure on Shikotan Island

The Krabozavodsk fish processing complex is equipped with the most modern equipment.

The workshop's capacity allows it to receive and process up to 300 tons of raw fish every day.

New kindergarten for 70 places (2010)

New School (2006)

Construction of fuel supply systems is underway on all islands - Iturup, Kunashir and Shikotan

Paramushir Island- one of the islands of the Northern group of the Great Ridge of the Kuril Islands.
Population - about 2500 people.
Severo-Kurilsk- the administrative center and the only populated area of the island.
The fishing port and fish processing plant are the main production facilities of Severo-Kurilsk.
In 1952, the city was almost destroyed by a tsunami, but after that it was restored and exists to this day.
Monument to those killed in 1945

Fisherman's Day is one of the main holidays on the Kuril Islands

Transportation of goods and passengers to the islands is carried out by the motor ships “Igor Farkhutdinov” and “Marina Tsvetaeva”.

Construction plans for 2011
In 2011, a kindergarten for 40 places will be commissioned in the village of Reidovo on the island. Iturup, construction of the berth complex in Yuzhno-Kurilsk has been completed. The construction of the sea terminal building will continue, in a single three-story sea terminal complex with an area of more than 885 square meters. m will accommodate all services operating both domestic and international flights.
The “Construction and reconstruction of systems” facility will also be commissioned fuel supply O. Shikotan" in the village of Malokurilskoye.
This year the following will be built: a 6-apartment residential building in the village of Krabozavodskoye on Shikotan, a 10-apartment building and four 8-apartment buildings in Yuzhno-Kurilsk, two 8-apartment buildings on Iturup.
This year, a modular diesel generator power station will be completed and launched on the street. Nagornaya in the village of Malokurilskoye.
And as part of the regional fire safety program, the commissioning of a fire station in Yuzhno-Kurilsk is expected.

P.S. Of course, on the Kuril Islands, not everything is as rosy and positive as it looks in these photographs. I have collected here only new or renovated objects. In addition to large settlements by the standards of the Kuril Islands, there are also very small settlements, where, nevertheless, people also live.
But since the island development program was adopted until 2015 and the positive trend is obvious, there is every reason to believe that in all populated areas all 4 inhabited Kuril Islands will have decent living conditions.

Kuril Islands / Photo: riarealty.ru

A number of new military facilities will appear on the Kuril Islands of Iturup and Kunashir, reports the press service of the Federal Agency for Special Construction (Spetsstroy).

The press service noted that social infrastructure is also being built on the islands: dormitories for military personnel, cultural, leisure and sports centers.

The total construction area reaches 400 thousand square meters, in total it is planned to construct 392 buildings and structures. More than 500 builders and 100 pieces of equipment are involved in the construction of military infrastructure.

Also, according to Spetsstroy, all military facilities in the Kuril Islands will be equipped with the latest security system “Strelets-Sentry”, which will allow messages about emergency situations to be transmitted via secure communication channels, RIA Novosti reports.

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Sagittarius guarding military facilities and enterprises of the military-industrial complex

By the end of 2015, national superheroes will protect the borders of Russia using unique bracelets

Just recently, fantastic bracelets from superhero movies were just a utopia. However, the Sagittarius company managed to turn fantasy into reality.

Superhero bracelets are unique security points for receiving and transmitting information, which form the basis of an integrated complex technical means security "Sagittarius-Sentinel". Using bracelets, you can not only monitor the status of each guard (GLONASS sensor, immobility sensor), but also secretly notify him of an emergency situation at the facility with a vibration signal. In other words, the Strelets company was able to combine the entire complex of technical means of protecting an object directly with the person on combat duty. In the event of an emergency at the facility, an alarm signal will immediately be sent to the bracelet and to the control headquarters.

Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev gets acquainted with the Sagittarius-Chasovoy mobile complex at the Russian Ministry of Defense forum / Photo: i-korotchenko.livejournal.com

“We need to implement it!”

“We need to implement it!” – Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev succinctly stated after getting acquainted with the Sagittarius-Chasovoy mobile complex at the International Military-Technical Forum of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The Minister of Defense said that the complex has already been put into service and will enter the Russian army in 2015.

Today, the Sagittarius-Chasovoy complex is already used to protect the most important military facilities, for example, National Center Russian Defense Department in Moscow, as well as the Patriot Park in Kubinka.

At the official closing ceremony of the forum, the Strelets company was awarded the award “For its contribution to the preparation and organization of the international military-technical forum” / Photo: i-korotchenko.livejournal.com

Patriot Park under the sign of Sagittarius

All security systems of the Patriot Park: video surveillance, access control, perimeter security and personal alarm systems were implemented using Sagittarius-Sentry technology, including wireless.

As a result of the use of modern wireless technologies, Strelets LLC short time created a reliable security system at the international forum of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Uralmashzavod chose Strelets

The largest industrial enterprise of national importance was fully equipped with the Strelets radio channel system.

"Uralmashplant" / Photo: i-korotchenko.livejournal.com

Decisive factors for choosing Sagittarius:

Installation in a short time (no need to lay cable lines and wires).
No false alarms (for example, welding work leads to interference in long wires - a kind of antenna for interference).
Possibility of stage-by-stage reconstruction of buildings without disrupting communication lines of security systems.

Wireless and traditional technologies of the Sagittarius-Sentry system provide a qualitatively new level of security for defense complex facilities.

Illustration copyright AFP Image caption In 2010, the then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the Kuril Islands

Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Defense and Security of the Federation Council Franz Klintsevich announced the construction of a naval base in the Kuril Islands. This is not the first mention of a military facility on the islands; Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke about this earlier, but this is the first time this project has been talked about in the present tense.

“The decision has been made. It is under implementation,” Klintsevich said, without specifying where exactly the military facility will be located.

Perhaps he meant the island of Matua - a small piece of land in the center of the Kuril ridge. In 2016, Defense Minister Shoigu said that Russia intended not only to restore, but also to actively exploit this island.

By that time, a large expedition of the Russian Geographical Society and the Pacific Fleet (PF) had already visited the island. The second expedition began in the summer of 2017 and is still ongoing.

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“Specialists carried out more than 1,000 laboratory studies on physical, chemical and biological indicators, made more than 200 measurements of the relief and external environment. Radiation and chemical reconnaissance was also carried out, the fortifications of the island and more than 100 historical objects were examined. Divers carried out hydrographic research of the bays and bays of the island of Matua,” says the Russian Geographical Society’s website.

Illustration copyright Google Image caption Perhaps the naval base will be located on Matua island

The expedition reports talk a lot about the study of marine invertebrate animals and algae, the study of the activity of the Sarychev Peak volcano, but if the Ministry of Defense really intends to build a base on this island, then hydrographic studies of the seabed topography and the study of the remains of Japanese military structures are most likely especially important for it .

The new base will be capable of receiving any ships, including the first rank, Klintsevich said on Thursday, without specifying which ships will be based at this facility.

Ships of the first rank include aircraft carriers, destroyers, missile and anti-submarine cruisers, and nuclear submarines. For such vessels with deep draft you really need to carefully prepare the seabed.

The ownership of some of the Kuril Islands by Russia is disputed by Japan. They went to the Soviet Union at the very end of World War II, when Soviet naval forces landed on the islands. The ownership of some of the islands was not secured by international treaties.

Japan claims the Kuril Islands Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and a group of small Habomai islands, citing the Shimonoseki Treaty of 1855. The Matua island that Shoigu spoke about does not belong to the group of disputed ones - it is located in another part of the ridge, in its central region.

Russia insists that the islands belong to it, citing the inadmissibility of revising the results of World War II.

Island as a base

The Kuril Islands are located in a strategically important area: they separate the Sea of Okhotsk from Pacific Ocean, as if blocking the exit to him from south coast Russian Far East.

During World War II, a powerful system of fortifications, airfields, and naval bases was built on the islands. One of the objects was located just on Matua - coastal concrete fortifications, the remains of an airfield, warehouses, and shelters still remain on the island.

Illustration copyright Google Image caption Traces of Japanese field fortifications remain on Matua

IN Soviet time and until 2001 there was a border post on the island, but in last years the island remained uninhabited.

Currently, the 18th machine gun and artillery division (the only such formation in the Russian army) is deployed on the Kuril Islands with reinforcement units in Iturup and Kunashir. Recently, Bal and Bastion coastal missile systems, as well as Buk anti-aircraft systems, were deployed on the islands. The Bastion complex was located on the island of Iturup, and the Bal complex was located on Kunashir.

Matua is not the most comfortable place to live or even to build a military base. Strong winds blow on the island; there are no large convenient bays on the coast. Finally, all Northern part a small island - a volcano that last erupted quite recently - in 2009.

The island is located at a great distance from supply bases, and communication with it, especially in the winter months, is difficult due to the fact that the Sea of Okhotsk freezes in this place.

Illustration copyright NASA Image caption Eruption of the Sarychev Peak volcano on the island of Matua in 2009

In any case, building a large base on it will be extremely expensive.

However, Russia appears ready to spend. On the one hand, the Kremlin has long been striving to expand its military presence in the World Ocean. And the Pacific region, which has attracted more and more attention in recent years, is extremely important for Russia.

For example, one of the two amphibious helicopter carriers that Russia intended to purchase from France was to be based in the Pacific Fleet.

"When I served in Far East, the issue of placing a naval formation of the Pacific Fleet in the Kuril Islands was considered. It is profitable to create a base on the islands for the only reason - direct access to the ocean. Of the places that were determined to be suitable for it in terms of geometry, the difficulties were as follows. The first is difficult ice conditions in winter. The second is the ebb and flow of about six meters. The third is strong winds,” former commander of the Baltic Fleet Admiral Vladimir Valuev said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

During the times of the USSR, which had a larger Pacific Fleet than Russia now, on the Kuril Islands is larger military base was never built.

Russia's second goal is to gain a foothold on the Kuril Islands themselves. The unresolved issue with the Kuril Islands hinders the development of relations between the two countries; it is raised every time by Moscow and Tokyo and clearly makes both sides very nervous.

What kind of base can Russia afford?

Speaking about the scale of the future facility, Senator Franz Klintsevich said that the new base will be capable of receiving any ships, including the first rank.

At the same time, Klintsevich used the word “base”, that is, he meant a fairly large facility, which should include not only berths, but also infrastructure for the maintenance of ships, ideally a dock and ship repair plant, barracks for accommodating crews and base personnel, air defense units and airfield.

And all this is on an island with an area of 52 square kilometers, a significant part of which is occupied by a volcano.

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Senior researcher at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the Higher School of Economics, Vasily Kashin, told the BBC that as a result, only a small logistics and technical support center for ships may appear on Matua, in Syria, and Russia will invest money in already existing bases of the Pacific fleet.

There are five of them in the Far East - in Vladivostok, Fokino, Vilyuchinsk (nuclear submarines are based there), Sovetskaya Gavan and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

“Maybe it will be a harbor where there will be several piers, again we don’t know how many; there will be an icebreaker and a couple of tugs, and some small forces will be constantly deployed,” he said.

At the same time, Kashin noted that even if, for example, a large anti-submarine ship (first rank) can approach the island, it is still unknown how many such ships can be serviced there at the same time and what volume of service they can receive there.

Image copyright AFP

Image caption In 2010, the then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the Kuril Islands

“The decision has been made. It is under implementation,” Klintsevich said, without specifying where exactly the military facility will be located.

By that time, a large expedition of the Russian Geographical Society and the Pacific Fleet (PF) had already visited the island. The second expedition began in the summer of 2017 and is still ongoing.

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Image copyright Google

Image caption Perhaps the naval base will be located on the island of Matua

The new base will be capable of receiving any ships, including the first rank, Klintsevich said on Thursday, without specifying which ships will be based at this facility.

Ships of the first rank include aircraft carriers, destroyers, missile and anti-submarine cruisers, and nuclear submarines. For such deep draft vessels, the seabed really needs to be carefully prepared.

Russia insists that the islands belong to it, citing the inadmissibility of revising the results of World War II.

Island as a base

The Kuril Islands are located in a strategically important area: they separate the Sea of Okhotsk from the Pacific Ocean, as if blocking access to it from the southern coast of the Russian Far East.

Image copyright Google

Image caption Traces of Japanese field fortifications remain on Matua

During Soviet times and until 2001, there was a border post on the island, but in recent years the island has remained uninhabited.

Matua is not the most comfortable place to live or even to build a military base. Strong winds blow on the island; there are no large convenient bays on the coast. Finally, the entire northern part of the small island is a volcano that last erupted quite recently - in 2009.

The island is located at a great distance from supply bases, and communication with it, especially in the winter months, is difficult due to the fact that the Sea of Okhotsk freezes in this place.

Image copyright NASA

Image caption Eruption of the Sarychev Peak volcano on the island of Matua in 2009

In any case, building a large base on it will be extremely expensive.

For example, one of the two amphibious helicopter carriers that Russia intended to purchase from France was to be based in the Pacific Fleet.

“When I served in the Far East, the issue of placing a naval formation of the Pacific Fleet on the Kuril Islands was considered. It is profitable to create a base on the islands for the only reason - direct access to the ocean. Of the places that were determined to be suitable for it in terms of geometry, the difficulties were the following. The first - difficult ice conditions in winter. The second is the ebb and flow of about six meters. The third is strong winds,” former commander of the Baltic Fleet Admiral Vladimir Valuev said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

During the times of the USSR, which had a larger Pacific Fleet than Russia now has, a large military base was never built on the Kuril Islands.

What kind of base can Russia afford?

Speaking about the scale of the future facility, Senator Franz Klintsevich said that the new base will be capable of receiving any ships, including the first rank.

And all this is on an island with an area of 52 square kilometers, a significant part of which is occupied by a volcano.

There are five of them in the Far East - in Vladivostok, Fokino, Vilyuchinsk (nuclear submarines are based there), Sovetskaya Gavan and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

with each construction project it becomes more and more difficult to count... As previously reported, Spetsstroy was going to rebuild a number of military facilities in the Sakhalin region, among them completely autonomous military camps with residential buildings and dormitories, barracks, related infrastructure, cultural, leisure and sports institutions. How these intentions are being implemented in practice can be learned from the November publications related to the Ministry of Defense. In particular, they say that the authorities federal agency special construction of Russia and the director of Spetsstroy, A. Volosov, after an inspection trip to the Southern Kuril Islands in the middle of the year, assured that the problems with construction had been resolved, the timing and order of delivery of social and military facilities had been determined, and thus, everything that was planned for the rearmament of the group Russian troops it will be done in the Southern Kuril Islands! There are a lot of plans, judge for yourself:

Kitovaya Bay.

On Iturup, in the military town of the village of Kitovoe, a contract dated 2012 provided for the construction of dormitories for officers and soldiers, a division headquarters, a checkpoint, a first-aid post, storage facilities and depots for fuels and lubricants, a food plant, training parade grounds and grounds, a large educational building, a sports training complex, etc. . according to the tender for the comprehensive development of a military camp. All this must be completed and put into operation by the contractor. no later than November 15, 2015. More than 3 billion rubles were transferred in advance for construction under the terms of the contract. However, not a penny reached the subcontractors. There are no design estimates for which the general contractor is responsible, no technical conditions and working documentation for the projects, and no working resources: of the required number of 700 builders, about a third are on site. The general contractors of the FSUE Spetsstroyengineering, GUIR No. 2 (organizations subordinate to Spetsstroy) arrived at the construction site only in July of this year, as if preparing for the inspection.

military unit in the village of Goryachiy Plyazh. Kunashir

The delay in completing planned work is colossal; almost a year, it is impossible to catch up with such a backlog in local conditions, in addition, failure to meet deadlines is fraught with the collection of a large penalty. Well, the military will not receive many long-awaited residential infrastructure facilities - dormitories and barracks facilities. It turns out that soldiers and officers will have to serve in tents, as is now happening in Primorye due to the fault of Spetsstroy? Construction work did not begin at all at the facilities of the economic zone, training and material base, missile and artillery weapons depot, base area of a group of support vessels and engineering support facilities. Or maybe in Kunashir the contractors of Spetsstroy “Spetsstroyengineering” and GUIR No. 2 meet the deadlines?

military unit in the village of Lagunnoye, Kunashir.

Here, under a similar contract from 2012, the same military-based infrastructure must be delivered by 2015. The advance for this project was also received in full, but by November a temporary administrative camp had been set up for only 20 people and some construction materials had been brought in. Construction in Kunashir requires about 600 specialists, but only 30 people work. A strange situation has developed... For some reason, the Military Department is tolerating the unrest and confusion happening in Spetsstroy. And endless commissions, meetings, approvals between the military and the management of the builders are simply meaningless. For the reason that, according to the military, different people constantly come to all these events, often having nothing to do with the fulfillment of the contract. Since 2012, four subcontractors have changed at Kuril construction sites, and the military department has not received any reports on the funds spent from any of them.... Meanwhile, the disruption of work on the islands of Kunashir and Iturup directly affects military construction plans and ensuring national security on our eastern borders.

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