However, he noted that the financing of the project could begin in 2021, reports TASS.
“Given that it will be created in about two years, it may end by 2023 or by the end of 2023,” Manturov said.
According to him, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia plans to allocate 5 billion rubles for the creation of three test sites, "including Murmansk, then in Yakutia and the Nenets okrug."
Earlier, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry for the Development of the Far East prepared proposals for incentive measures for the implementation of projects and development of deposits in the Arctic.