News – Government of Russia

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev spoke at a meeting of the College of Roshydromet “On the activities of Roshydromet in 2024 and tasks for 2025.” The Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that many spheres depend on the timeliness and accuracy of Roshydromet information, so you need to constantly build up competencies, improving the quality of forecasting.

“Over the years of its work, Roshydromet has built a multifunctional structure that unites human, scientific and technological potentials. As a result, today the Federal Service is included in the five best in the world. Such recognition from the professional community is very significant. You really implement unique projects that have no analogues. Among your priority tasks for 2025 and the prospect should be deepened by integration with other departments and taking into account their needs in the formation of forecasts. The possibility of prompt response to adverse natural phenomena – including floods, fires, abnormal precipitation or drought – is the issue of ensuring the safety of the population and the stable functioning of the economy, ”said Dmitry Patrushev.

Speaking about the development of an activity strategy in the field of hydrometeorology for the period until 2036, the Deputy Prime Minister recommended that experts from the maximum number of industries interested in forecasts.

In addition, according to the deputy chairman of the government, digitalization is given the possibility of developing interagency dialogue. Roshydromet operates more than 85 software products, also creates a single platform of industry services.

Dmitry Patrushev emphasized the importance of continuing the modernization of the state observation network. The relevant measures were previously laid down in the national project “Ecology”, there are separate directions in the new national project “Ecological well -being”.

“Improving your observation methods should be based on your own scientific and practical base. Roshydromet works quite actively in this part. In particular, at the Admiralty shipyards, at the expense of federal funds, an ice -resistant self -proper platform “North Pole” was built. This is one of the unique projects that have no analogues in the world. In 2024, the first drifting Arctic polar expedition was completed on its base, now the platform will be in the second expedition. It will make it possible to obtain additional data on territories that are never before They were examined by Russian scientists, ”said Deputy Prime Minister.

In 2025, specialists of the Russian Antarctic expedition already completely moved to the new wintering complex of the Vostok station in Antarctica. The station is equipped with the most modern equipment, thanks to which polar explorers can work comfortably, fully providing scientific research in Antarctica. In October last year, the ship “Ivan Frolov” was laid. It should be the largest scientific and expeditionary ship for the Antarctic.

In 2024, six meteorological satellites were launched, and there were 20 of them together. In 2025, preparations were planned for flying tests of several other spacecraft.

Roshydromet, as part of the implementation of the assignment of the President of Russia, created a state system of instrumental monitoring of many years of permafrost. Thanks to this, for the first time it became possible to monitor its dynamics.

Dmitry Patrushev emphasized that, on behalf of the President of Russia, 24 billion rubles will be allocated in the coming years on an increase in the level of salaries of Roshydromet workers in the coming years, and a separate “roadmap” is being developed to create a system of high -quality training on behalf of the government. Its implementation will lead to an increase in the set in specialized educational institutions and will help the industry to educate these professionals.