The need for "heroes for the Arctic" was declared at the forum in St. Petersburg

"We are ready to help financially, but the other thing is that we need interesting projects. At the same time, they are not so much interested in scientific ones: universities and companies working in the Arctic are engaged in them, but rather those aimed at the individual development of young people.", – leads to FederalPress the words of the head of Rosmolodezh By Andrey Platonov.

Many grant competitions and projects are held under the auspices of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs. Platonov noted that the forum's platform is a unique opportunity, where participants can express themselves and make their projects heard.

"And there are people in the audience who, thanks to their speeches at previous forums, have received internships in large companies," he noted.

From the point of view of the indigenous peoples of the North, the government's task is to ensure the livelihood of people living in the region permanently.

"Of the 40 million indigenous peoples, 3 million are young people. And every year they go to big cities. The main issue for them is employment"- says the first Vice-president of the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East Nina Veysalova.

According to her, it has now been possible to achieve a steady course of the country's authorities to abandon the shift method of Arctic exploration.

"Times have changed. Romanticism will not lure you to the North now, even if they go for the mists and the smell of the taiga, they will quickly return. There must be conditions for a normal life for people: sports clubs, cinemas, kindergartens"- she thinks.

Director of the Architecture and Design Foundation Ivan Moskvin He noted that the Arctic needs international interest, and cooperation with UNESCO structures will help attract talented young people from Europe, Asia and America here. However, for now this is a matter of the future, and the conquest of the Arctic remains the business of Russian citizens. This is already being taught at a series of international engineering competitions, where young specialists evaluate Arctic business cases of companies, schoolchildren calculate how much electricity will be needed to develop the region, and students evaluate the attractiveness of developing the most complex deposits.

"Of the 5,000 people who participated in this project, 400 received internships at major Russian corporations"- said Artem Korolev, Director of the Reliable Change Charitable Foundation.