Extreme North (Russia)

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Extreme North or Far North (Russian: Крайний Север, Дальний Север), a part of Russia located mainly beyond the Arctic Circle.

The Far North features extremal climate, and people who work there, other than the indigenous population involved in traditional occupations and inmates of labor camps (e.g., gulag of the Soviet Union), used to receive and extra grade of payment, "Northern Bonus" (Severnaya nadbavka), as well as other benefits, including extra vacation, extra disability benefits, extra retirement benefits, and housing benefits.

Formally, the regions of the Extreme North are the whole Yakutia, Magadan Oblast, Kamchatka Oblast and Murmansk Oblast, as well as certain parts and cities of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Komi Republic, Tyumen Oblast, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, as well as all islands of the Arctic Ocean, its seas, as well as of the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk.

Some other territories of Russia with harch climate are defined to be "equated to the conditions of Extreme North", in terms of labor compensation.

The Russian Far North has enormous mineral and natural resources.

In January 2007 the State Duma Commitee for Issues of North and Far East approved the proposed law "About the List of the Regions of the Extreme North and Territories Equated to It" («О перечне районов Крайнего Севера и приравненных к ним местностей»)^[1] as part of the package of laws about the labor compensation, inlcuding «О государственных гарантиях и компенсациях для лиц, работающих и проживающих в районах Крайнего Севера и приравненных к ним местностях», «О районировании Севера РФ» ans well as a law about the corresponding changes in the Russian Labor Code. According to the List, the Extreme North territories will be subdivided into two categories: "zone of absolute discomfort" and "zone of extreme discomfort".