MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, Ivanov visited the city of Tiksi in Russia's north to overlook progress of the construction.
"General work in Arctic is to be completed by the end of the current year," Ivanov said.
Ivanov stressed that building military facilities in Russia's north was a unique project in terms of extreme weather conditions.
According to the Russian military official, in 2015 Russian defense ministry completed construction of four military bases in arctic. Before bringing facilities to operation some 40 homes will be built to host military officers and soldiers.