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The impact of facilities of various branches of Russia’s fuel and energy complex (FEC) on the Arctic permafrost zone and their stability due to climate change and the state of the upper horizons of the permafrost zone are discussed. Effective approaches are described in the design, construction, and operation of FEC facilities in permafrost. For the most significant subsectors of the energy sector (oil and gas production and transportation, electricity provision), an assessment of the economic damage as a result of changes in engineering and cryological conditions under the influence of natural and anthropogenic factors was carried out. The necessity of introducing new design and construction methods, carrying out complex background and geotechnical monitoring at the FEC enterprises, and creating a center for analyzing the received data is shown.
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RAS Academician Vladimir Pavlovich Mel’nikov is Head of a research field at the Institute of the Earth’s Cryosphere, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS SB ECI); Head of the Department of Methodology for Interdisciplinary Cryosphere Research at the Tyumen’ Research Center, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS SB TyumRC); and Research Supervisor at the International Institute of Cryology and Cryosophy, Tyumen’ State University (TyumSU). RAS Academician Viktor Ivanovich Osipov is Research Supervisor at the Institute of Environmental Geoscience (RAS IEG). Anatolii Viktorovich Brushkov, Dr. Sci. (Geol.–Mineral.), is Head of the Geocryology Department, Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University (MSU), and a Leading Researcher at the International Institute of Cryology and Cryosophy, Tyumen’ State University (TyumSU). Svetlana Vadimovna Badina, Cand. Sci. (Geogr.) is a Researcher at the MSU Faculty of Geography and a Senior Researcher at the Plekhanov All-Russia University of Economics (RUE). Sergei Aleksandrovich Velikin, Dr. Sci. (Eng.), is Head of the Vilyuisk Permafrost Research Station, Mel’nikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS SB PFI). Dmitrii Stepanovich Drozdov, Dr. Sci. (Geol.–Mineral.), is Deputy Director for Research at RAS SB ECI and Acting Head of the Engineering Geology Department at the Ordzhonikidze All-Russia State University for Geological Prospecting (RSUGP). Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dubrovin, Cand. Sci. (Geol.–Mineral.), is Chief Specialist at the Center for Monitoring of the Condition of the Subsoil Gidrospetsgeologiya. Oleg Valer’evich Zhdaneev, Cand. Sci. (Phys.–Math.), is Deputy Director General of the Russian Energy Agency, the Russian Ministry of Energy, and an Associate Professor at the Gubkin All-Russia State University of Oil and Gas. Mikhail Nikolaevich Zheleznyak, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and Dr. Sci. (Geol.–Mineral.), is RAS SB IPF Director. Mikhail Evgen’evich Kuznetsov, Cand. Sci. (Econ.), is Vostokgosplan Director, the Ministry for Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic. Aleksei Borisovich Osokin, Cand. Sci. (Geol.–Mineral.), is Deputy Head of the Gazprom Dobycha Nadym. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Ostarkov is a Leading Specialist of the Ministry for Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic. Marat Rinatovich Sadurtdinov, Cand. Sci. (Eng.), is RAS SB ECI Director. Dmitrii Olegovich Sergeev, Cand. Sci. (Geol.–Mineral.), is Head of the Geocryology Laboratory at RAS IEG. Elena Valer’evna Ustinova, Cand. Sci. (Geol.–Mineral.), is an Associate Professor at the Industrial University of Tyumen’ (IUT) and a Senior Researcher at RAS SB ECI. Roman Yur’evich Fedorov, Dr. Sci. (Hist.), is a Leading Researcher at RAS SB ECI and a Leading Researcher in the Department of Methodology for Interdisciplinary Cryosphere Research at RAS SB TyumRC. Konstantin Nikolaevich Frolov is a Project Manager at the Competence Center for Technological Development of the Fuel and Energy Complex, Russian Energy Agency, Russian Energy Ministry. Rudol’f Vladimirovich Chzhan, Dr. Sci. (Eng.), is a Leading Researcher at RAS SB PFI.
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Mel’nikov, V.P., Osipov, V.I., Brushkov, A.V. et al. Decreased Stability of the Infrastructure of Russia’s Fuel and Energy Complex in the Arctic Because of the Increased Annual Average Temperature of the Surface Layer of the Cryolithozone. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 92, 115–125 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331622020083
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