“To date, more than 4,000 people have already acquired land for free under the Hectare in the Arctic program and are implementing their plans on it. As a rule, the land is used for the construction of homes, entrepreneurial activities and the implementation of tourism projects,” Yulia Tishchenko, Director of the Hectare in the Far East and in the Arctic Project Implementation Department of the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, said.
An important factor of the “Hectare law” is the possibility of creating so-called “technical agglomerations” – groupings of 20 plots of land located within a locality or no further than 20 kilometers fr om it. Despite the fact that the Hectare in the Arctic is only 1.5 years old, 33 such agglomerations have already been formed on the Arctic land, almost 2,000 people have acquired plots here. These are the promising areas wh ere, first of all, support is needed for the creation of infrastructure and the provision of support measures.
The Hectare program has been implemented since 2016. The land is provided free of charge, and an application can be made through the website OsvoyGektar.RF. The law presupposes the free choice of land and type of land use: for example, you can claim a plot of 10 hectares for the establishment of a cottage or the construction of an individual residence and run your own farm or 10 hectares by submitting a collective application for an agricultural or recreational project. To date, about 111,000 people have received land in the Far East, and more than 4,000 in the Arctic.