MOSCOW, October 30. /TASS/. Comprehensive plans for development Arctic settlements to 2035 envisage 14 measures to create waste management facilities and eliminate accumulated environmental damage. The total financing is 21.5 billion rubles ($270 million), Deputy Minister for Development of the Far East and Arctic Anton Basansky said.

"The government has approved long-term plans for the integrated social and economic development of 15 agglomerations in the Arctic Zone. The plans contain 14 measures to build waste management facilities and to eliminate accumulated environmental damage, with funding of 21.5 billion rubles," he said at a meeting of the Council for the Development of the Far East, Arctic and Antarctic at the Federation Council.

Earlier, Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said the government had approved a comprehensive plan to develop settlements in the Arctic. Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev reported necessary financing for planned 516 long-term events was 2.9 trillion rubles ($36 billion).