Earlier, a private company had launched a project in this regard, but the project stalled. Now the Russian government itself has launched a plan to provide high-speed internet in the northern parts of the country through fiber optic wire.
Significantly, Russia has done much to improve infrastructure in the northern part of the mill in recent years, and there has been a significant increase in the Russian military presence there. Russia is improving the North Sea route of the mill and using it as a shipping route.
It is said that this project of fiber optic wire will be completed by 2026. It will start as a whole from the village of Teriberka, on the shores of the Barents Sea, and run along the country's northern coastline to the eastern Russian port of Vladivostok, 12,650 kilometers away.
The project, dubbed the "Polar Express", will be run by state-owned Morris Vyacheslav. Its job is to ensure a stable Internet supply in the Arctic region.
A senior official involved in the wire-laying and laying work said the project would cost a total of 9 889 million and would be fully funded by the state.
The wire is being manufactured in the Arctic city of Moramansk using Chinese optical fiber and Russian components. It has been reported that the laying work has been started since Friday. The project, however, will require additional connections to connect to the global communications cable network, and will likely rely on foreign investment.
Significantly, the Russian telecom company Megaphone had earlier launched a project called "Arctic Connect" with the Finnish infrastructure company Xenia. The 1 billion project was to link Helsinki and Tokyo to Russia, but was halted in May.