Proposals for the Government Program on Promoting Voluntary Resettlement in the Russian Federation of Former Residents Now Living Abroad Svobodny Cosmodrome: a Potential Space Industry Cluster and Development Corridor in Russia’s Amur Region Institute of Demography, Migration, and Regional Development Yuri Krupnov 2007
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Proposals for the Government Program on Promoting Voluntary Resettlement in the Russian Federation of
Former Residents Now Living Abroad
Svobodny Cosmodrome: a Potential Space Industry Cluster and
Development Corridor in Russia’s Amur Region
Institute of Demography, Migration, and Regional Development
Yuri Krupnov2007
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Reversing the population outflow
President Vladimir Putin said in December 2006:
“Ultimately, all our plans must aim to make the Far East a comfortable and attractive place for people to live.”
• Reverse the outflow from the Russian Far East
• Promote internal immigration- from Russia’s Western regions- from among our compatriots living abroad
Turn the migration vector around180 degrees!
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Raise population densityand skill levels
Goals of the State Program:
Reverse depopulation Create skilled manufacturing jobs
Combined result: higher population density and skill levels in the border areas
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The population density objective
Current population density
Amur Region 2.4 per sq km
Heilongjiang Province 80 per sq km
OBJECTIVE – in 5 years, raise the Amur Region’s population density to 2.8 – 3.0 people per square km, from 873,000 inhabitants to 1,000,000.
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Five clusters — the technological basis for developing the Amur Region
The regional governor wants to organize tens of thousands of new high-skilled jobs in:
Timber processing Space services industry Machine-building Soybeans Transport and energy
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The core of the project to resettle the Amur Region The core of the project to resettle the Amur Region could becould be
creation of a full-fledged cosmodrome based oncreation of a full-fledged cosmodrome based on
the the SVOBODNY LAUNCH FACILITYSVOBODNY LAUNCH FACILITYand the military town of and the military town of
UGLEGORSKUGLEGORSK
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Competitive advantages of a Svobodny Cosmodrome
Greatest skilled manpower concentration in Russia’s eastern half
Best launch location in Russia – 52º North Latitude
Excellent available angles of launch
Empty areas for Launch Hazard Zones
Capacity to launch sun-synchronous or geosynchronous satellites, and manned spacecraft
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Strategic Region #1 − the western Pacific Oceanalong the coast of China
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THREE OPTIONSFOR THE SVOBODNY COSMODROME AND UGLEGORSK
Closing of the space
launch facility and Uglegorsk
Maintaining a small-scale
satellite launch center
Creation of the first Russian
National Cosmodrome
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The first national cosmodrome can be based on a space transport system
using Zenith-class rocketsand the Clipper shuttle,
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satellite launchesby light Start-class rockets,
and spacecraft control functions
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EASTERN DEVELOPMENT CORRIDOR
UGLEGORSK – KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR
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The “Long” Eastern The “Long” Eastern Development CorridorDevelopment Corridor