The Northern delivery (Russian: северный завоз, romanized: severny zavoz) is a set of annual measures to provide the population of the Russian Far North with basic goods (primarily food and fuel) for long and harsh polar winter.
[1] Northern delivery as a phenomenon is due to three reasons: In these conditions, the only possible is the centralized purchase and transportation of goods from the southern and central Russia to the Far North, which is responsibility of the federal government.
[1] Today, 70% of cargo delivered by the program is fuel.
[2] Northern delivery is carried out in 25 regions of Russia.
The main volume of supplies falls on four regions: Yakutia, Chukotka, Magadan Oblast and north of Krasnoyarsk Krai with a total population of about three million inhabitants.