The first center to start operating will be the one in Murmansk, which should be in business from October 2015, Roskosmos´ website reads.
Centers for handling data from satellites are being established in the Arkhangelsk region, in Komi, Yamal-Nenets and in Khanty-Mansiysk, and two more are planned in Dudinka in the Krasnoyarsk region and in Anadyr in Chukotka.
The centers will provide imagery that can give valuable information about the situation in the Arctic in fields like climate change, ice conditions, topography, industrial objects etc, and which can also be invaluable for emergency response and disaster relief.