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Source: Government of the Russian Federation – Government of the Russian Federation –
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Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order approving the Far East Demographic Policy Strategy for the period up to 2030 and for the period up to 2036.
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Order No. 170-r of February 2, 2026
The new strategy, developed as a follow-up to a similar document in effect until 2025, defines the key mechanisms of state demographic policy in the Far Eastern regions. It was developed taking into account the geostrategic significance of the macroregion, its spatial, natural, climatic, and socioeconomic characteristics, as well as the current demographic situation.
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The strategy aims to achieve demographic stability in the Far East by improving the standard and quality of life, ensuring the accelerated socio-demographic development of the macro-region, increasing the birth rate, improving the system of support for families with children, facilitating the successful reconciliation of professional and family life, fostering a healthy lifestyle culture, and creating conditions for attracting students and qualified specialists.
The document contains a number of specific measures aimed at achieving the set objectives.
Thus, to ensure accelerated socio-demographic development, it is proposed to maintain the competitive advantages of preferential regimes for attracting investment and entrepreneurship, continue housing construction support programs, including those tailored to the needs of families with children, improve transport connectivity, and implement urban master plans, rural development programs, and improvement projects that create a new look for communities and a comfortable living environment. It is also proposed to expand programs for environmental and fire safety, as well as monitoring and forecasting natural hazards.
To increase the birth rate, additional support measures for large families are planned, as well as a targeted approach to providing additional support to families with special needs, including single-parent families, adoptive families, and families with disabilities of a parent or child. Subsidized mortgage programs and the Far Eastern demographic package, which includes a one-time payment for the birth of a first child and additional regional maternity capital for the birth of a second child, will also continue to be implemented.
To ensure young parents can successfully combine family and professional fulfillment, efforts to develop preschool education will continue, including major renovations and the construction of new kindergartens. Social support measures for families with children will be expanded, including through the development of social services for daycare for children up to three years old and extended-day groups in elementary schools. Support mechanisms for student families and the families of young academics will be developed.
As part of the program dedicated to improving public health and fostering a healthy lifestyle, it is proposed to increase access to medical care for residents of remote and hard-to-reach areas, modernize health centers, women's clinics, perinatal centers, children's clinics, and hospitals, ensure greater access to medications and medical products on preferential terms for people with cardiovascular and endocrine diseases and neoplasms, and increase staffing levels in medical organizations.
To create conditions conducive to attracting students and qualified specialists to the Far East, we plan to facilitate the opening of branches of leading Russian and international universities in the federal district, create the necessary infrastructure for the study and recreation of students and young scientists, and, in conjunction with employers, launch mechanisms to encourage the employment of young specialists at Far Eastern enterprises, including through relocation and settlement allowances and the provision of rental housing. We also plan to develop programs that allow students to visit the Far East and gain work experience there.
In addition, the strategy proposes to improve the effectiveness of the "Zemsky Doctor," "Zemsky Paramedic," "Zemsky Teacher," and "Zemsky Cultural Worker" programs and extend their terms to other categories of specialists in demand in the macro-region.
The primary mechanism for implementing the strategy will be a comprehensive action plan, which the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East will develop and submit to the Government within the next three months.
Commenting on the decision takenmeeting with deputy prime ministers on February 9Mikhail Mishustin noted that, as a result of extensive work in the Far Eastern Federal District, it has been possible to ensure accelerated growth rates in key economic and social sectors. The birth rate there has exceeded the Russian average.
"Certainly, we need to achieve sustainable momentum in this area. The main goal is to have at least 7.86 million people living in the Far East regions within the next 10 years," the Prime Minister emphasized.
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