Rebuilding two airports in the Murmansk region will be a key stage in developing local transport infrastructure. The regional government told TASS this will be a part of a project to develop the region’s planned transport-logistics cluster project.

The reconstruction of the international airport in Murmansk would take priority. Here modernization would be shouldered by the federal budget and private investors.

The proprietors will invest about 280 mln rubles (about $4.9 mln) into the Murmansk airport’s modernization program over the next five years. First investments will be made in a fleet of specialized vehicles.

The Khibiny airport in Apatity will be under reconstruction for three years (2017-2020), to better handle the rising flow of passengers and cargo in the central and southern parts of the Murmansk region, as well as tourists going to the Khibiny ski resort. The project will include redoing the terminal and of the port’s infrastructures, and the international terminal, the engineering facilities, as well as upgrading machines and equipment.