INTEGRATED SECURITY PROVISION AND URBAN PLANNING IN EXPLOITATION OF RUSSIA’S ARCTIC SHELF RESOURCES

Issues of strategic national interests of the Russian Federation in the Arctic region, in particular in its shelf part, are considered. Subject: territory of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation and the water area of the Arctic Ocean. The main steps taken by the Russian Federation with regard to ensuring national security and urban development in the Arctic are highlighted. The dynamics of the changing international situation and the emerging confrontations with the countries that are members of the Arctic Council are described. Modern approaches to ensuring national security in the Arctic are discussed. Attention is paid to the issue of absence of a single executive body overseeing the Arctic region, including all northern administrative-territorial units, the so-called “Ministry of the Arctic”. Research objectives: analyze the role of economic and urban development of the Arctic in ensuring national security and modernization of Russia. Materials and methods: analysis of the current state of affairs in the field of security, national legislation, socio-economic and geographic location and prospects for environmental management in the Arctic region. Results: the natural-resource and transport-logistical potentials of the Arctic region, measures to ensure national security and urban development are analyzed. Conclusions: the results obtained are important for creating an integrated approach to ensuring integrated security and urban development in exploration of the resources of the Arctic shelf of the Russian Federation. Sustainable development of Russia’s Arctic zone in the fields of socio-economic, urban development, environmental management and environmental protection can be provided by scientific studies and monitoring. The problem of absence of a town-planning regulatory framework regulating the integrated development of the Arctic regions should be resolved by the bill “On the development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation”.