The Northern delivery () is a set of annual measures to provide the population of the

Russian Far North The Extreme North or the Far North is a large part of Russia located mainly north of the Arctic Circle and boasting enormous mineral and natural resources. Its total area is about , comprising about one-third of Russia's total area. Formall ...

with basic goods (primarily food and fuel) for long and harsh polar winter. Northern delivery as a phenomenon is due to three reasons: *Absence of its own production base for most industrial and agricultural products in the Far North *Remoteness of the main industrial areas by thousands of kilometers, which makes it difficult and expensive for private entities to deliver goods even in the summer *Complete absence of roads and railways in most regions of the Far North. In these conditions, the only possible is the centralized purchase and transportation of goods from the southern and central Russia to the Far North, which is a responsibility of the

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. Delivery is carried out mainly by air, as well as river and sea, including the

Northern Sea Route The Northern Sea Route (NSR) (, shortened to Севморпуть, ''Sevmorput'') is a shipping route about long. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) is the shortest shipping route between the western part of Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific region. Ad ...

. Today, 70% of cargo delivered by the program is fuel. Northern delivery is carried out in 25

regions of Russia In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and ...

. The main volume of supplies falls on four regions:

Yakutia Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million ...

, Chukotka,

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and north of

Krasnoyarsk Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a krai) of Russia located in Siberia. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Krasnoyarsk, the second-largest city in Siberia after ...

with a total population of about three million inhabitants.

References

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