Regions of the Far North of Russia are waiting for workers

From the school bench, we all know where the north is and how cold it is. But there are territories that are called "regions of the Far North." They are located beyond the Arctic Circle, where there is a forest-tundra, tundra and an arctic zone with a very severe climate, in which it is not so easy to acclimate. In the vast territory of our country in some regions there are areas that, in their natural and climatic characteristics, are equated with the conditions in which the regions of the Far North are located. For example, Ulagan and Kosh-Agach administrative districts in the Altai Republic, located in the high-mountain zone and the distribution of permafrost.

Features of the natural conditions of the north

The north of Russia is known for its harsh climate, for living and working in which you need to have excellent health. The peculiarities of the natural conditions and climate of this territory include: extremely low winter air temperature, severe and prolonged winter, cold short summer, ultraviolet deficit, violation of photoperiodicity (duration of day and night). This can also include light fasting in the polar night and light excess on a polar day, oxygen starvation and rarefied air, sudden jumps in the values of humidity and temperatures, atmospheric pressure. Here, geomagnetic and gravitational perturbations are strongly pronounced, the influence of the cosmos is adversely affected.

Adaptive stress of the body

All these factors, as well as the forced reduction in motor activity, frequent and prolonged flights (with shift work), periodic climate change reduce the efficiency, immunity and health of people coming to the Far North. This is most often manifested in the person's acquisition of cardiovascular diseases, hormonal and metabolic disorders. According to the doctors, it takes several years to adapt a newcomer to the northern climate.

Work in the Far North

In the Soviet period, the Far North could be reached by a Komsomol ticket, enlisted voluntarily to construction sites, geological expeditions, oil and gas and gold mining enterprises. Among the visitors there were also those who were forcibly settled for re-education by labor and harsh living conditions. Work in the Far North and now, as they say, there is no end to it. In general, the work is related to the extraction of oil and gas, with the laying of oil and gas pipelines, the construction of roads, residential and industrial premises. Firms-employers for shift work recruit people young, surveyed in a medical institution and having a medical report on the state of health. Medical examination of workers is carried out periodically. In the north demand, mainly, working specialties: truck drivers and special vehicles, drillers, welders. To work in the northern conditions, the pregnant women and mothers with children under three years of age, guardians of underage children, male fathers engaged in the upbringing of children without a mother, as well as those who do not meet the age requirement, are not allowed to work in the northern conditions on a rotational basis.

Benefits for working in the Far North

For all able-bodied northerners residing there permanently or working on a rotational basis, a number of benefits have been established at the legislative level, divided into 2 groups. Benefits of the first group are cash payments for severe natural and climatic conditions of the territories where the regions of the Far North of Russia are located. Such benefits include: increased district coefficient, monthly and growing with the length of the salary increment, surcharges for temporary incapacity for work, additional leave, benefits to pensions, benefits for entry into a housing construction cooperative. The privileges of the second group are used only by workers of a certain category who moved north due to a public appeal with the conclusion of a contract of employment for a period of 3 years (or 2 years if the labor activity takes place on the island territory of the Arctic Ocean). This group of benefits includes: compensation for relocation, reimbursement of the costs of returning to the place of former residence at the end of the employment contract, a one-time benefit in the event of renewal of the contract for another period, booking of housing at the place of former residence, benefits for calculating the length of service at retirement. Some of these benefits will also be used by family members working. In the employment contract, the employer may also specify other benefits.