He told journalists about the implementation of the ‘Mountain Air’ development area, thought by the Sakhalin authorities to have the potential to make Sakhalin another ‘Krasnaya Poliana’. 5 aerial trams and 25 km of ski trails are to be built there between 2016 and 2018. The creation of the PDA also includes the construction of a ski village, hotels and restaurants. The first investment in the work at the construction site will be 2.9 bln rubles. By 2020 a balneo-therapeutic health resort, ‘Sinegorsk Mineral Waters’ and a recreation camp with a yacht club and a diving center will be constructed in Moneron natural park.
This will attract between 600,000 and 1m tourists a year to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. 980 new jobs will be created and 560.3m rubles of tax will flow annually to the treasury.