INTERNATIONAL BANK FINANCES THE RESETTLEMENT OF RUSSIAN CITIZENS FROM
UNITING CITIES OF THE HIGH NORTH








NORILSK, 2 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent Boris
Iwanow /. a group of experts of the international bank for
reconstruction and development (IBRD) completed the four-day work in
Norilsk, a polar city.  Together with the administration of the city
and the guidance of the Norilsker mining company alterations at the
pilot project assumed in former times were made for IBRD participation
in the financing of the resettlement of a section of inhabitants by
Norilsk after southern areas of the region Krasnojarsk and in cities
of the European section of Russia.

As the deputy mayor indicated von Norilsk Arkadi Genkin of the RIA "
Nowosti ", Norilsk have to leave over 4000 families in accordance with
the pilot project, whose conversion is to already begin in this
October.  The IBRD has the intention of supplying for the building of
dwellings for it in different cities of the country 38 million dollar.
It is assumed that the IBRD Direktorenrat must make the final decision
over the supply of this total in the middle of April.

At the same time the IBRD guidance plans to make decisions over the
financing of two other pilot projects for the resettlement of
inhabitants from such large northern cities as Magadan and Workuta.

Experts mean that the optimal number of the population of Norilsk is
not to exceed 150,000 to 160,000 inhabitants.  But today it is around
80,000 inhabitants more.