Overview
- Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin highlighted the cabinet‑approved program’s goals to rehabilitate the Azov Sea and raise living standards across seven regions defined as Priazovye.
- Vice‑Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said a basin‑wide pollution‑monitoring system will be created, with work targeting water shortages, shoreline reinforcement and upgraded treatment and storm‑sewer facilities.
- Master plans for major coastal towns and a unified development plan for the entire Azov coastline are now in preparation.
- The government set a target to complete new construction and reconstruction of key infrastructure, utilities and energy facilities by 2030.
- ASI, a co‑developer with VEB.RF, said the strategy includes 79 measures across 18 directions, projects 2.58 million people receiving better communal services, removal of 17 hazardous pollution sites, improved housing conditions for 750,000 residents, 23.6 million annual tourist trips by 2030, and a year‑round federal resort in Primorsk by 2040.