“The economic development program has been prepared. We looked at it as a first approximation yesterday: the volume of investments amounted to 16 billion rubles, somewhere around 2.8 thousand jobs, it implies in all settlements, ”RIA Novosti quotes Mutko as saying.

Mutko also noted that the government is considering the creation of a territory of priority social and economic development in Irkutsk Tulun.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting on flood management in the Irkutsk Region and the Far East, demanded to explain why only 50% of certificates for overhaul repairs after the flood were issued to victims in the Angara region.