In the area of Yamal and Taimyr in the 20th century, a large industrial center developed. At the same time, the Eastern regions of the Arctic and Siberia remained outside the country’s integrated economic system. Only gold and diamond mines work here. In the 90s, the organizational structure of economic relations disintegrates, and the region finally turns into a raw material appendage of the country — and this is a large part of its territory. Currently, falling interest of Western countries to Russian energy; the tangle of problems, the indicator of which was the Arctic, has generated the second crisis (a sharp in-depth “breakdown" of internal and external communications for pandemic COVID-19), impending disaster, as the natural ending of the impasse singularities, completes the life cycle of any system [1]. The article collects and analyzes information on the current situation in the production of energy resources, the state of transport, the demography of the region, and assesses prospects for its further development and restoration of the integrated mechanisms of the economy.