Engineering and Siting of New Industries in the Komi Republic (Experimental Approach)

The socio-economic development of the Komi Republic largely depends on timely structural transformation of production based on innovative technologies and the territorial organization of the economy relative to the northern environmental conditions. In this context, the background and prospects of an experimental scientific approach to the development and processing of mineral and biological resources are considered. The enterprises that have played a driving role in solving technical problems relevant to the country and in developing new research areas in the past are highlighted. Syktyvkar pilot shipbuilding yard has developed a technique for timber bundling and lifting sunken timber from the river-bed. Ukhta radiochemical plant in Vodny village was the only enterprise in the world where radium was isolated from mineralized groundwater; in fact, radiogeochemistry of groundwater originated here. At the Yarega oil and titanium deposit, thermoshaft extraction of the heavy high-viscosity oil was used for the first time and an attempt is being made to extract titanium from complex ores. The future of the republic’s economy is connected with the development and implementation of technologies for hydrocarbon chemistry, physico-chemical geotechnology, and organic chemistry. It is proposed to create experimental scientific enterprises and site them according to the issues of the Pechersk coal basin, the Arctic Ural and the Sysolo-Vychegodsky forest economic region. To successfully resolve these issues, a national-economy approach is required, in which the key driver of new industries development is a government order for programs and projects of a full investment cycle, including enterprise institutions. The novelty of the presented research lies in the development of methods for introducing scientific results into the practical economic activity by combining experimental scientific and common economic activities, taking into account the environmental conditions of the northern and arctic territories.