Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev tours a new housing development during his working visit to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev chairs a meeting “On improving the earthquake resistance of residential buildings, infrastructure facilities and vital support systems in the earthquake regions of the Russian Federation”

Dmitry Medvedev said he had decided to extend the programme to increase the quake resistance of residential buildings, infrastructure facilities and other systems in Russia’s quake-prone regions to 2018.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visits the Inter-Regional Centre for Collecting, Processing and Sharing Monitoring and Forecast Information on Earthquakes in the Far East and Tsunamis

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visits the Ocean national children’s centre in the suburbs of Vladivostok while on a working visit to the Far East

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visits Vladivostok Airport to inspect the new terminal built for the 2012 APEC summit

Dmitry Medvedev inspects regional hospital during his visit to the Sakhalin Region

Dmitry Medvedev holds meeting with Sakhalin Region Governor Alexander Khoroshavin

The main topic of discussion was the development of the region and above all transport issues. The prime minister stressed in this regard that “Sometimes you have to take decisions which may require additional funding but which will allow transport access to be maintained for a significant number of people.”

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev holds a meeting in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on the socioeconomic development of the Sakhalin Region

“I consider it extremely important for members of the government of the Russian Federation to visit the Kuril Islands. We have done this in the past, and naturally, this practice will be continued by the new government. The reasons for this are obvious: this is a very important part of the Sakhalin Region and of our Russian land as a whole.”

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visits the South Kuril island of Kunashir, where he inspected a local fish processing plant and hospital, visited a church under construction and talked with local residents

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev holds trip’s final meeting at Mendeleyevo Airport on Kunashir Island