Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Russia has already recruited 5,000 builders in Uzbekistan. Nikita Stasishin, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of Russia, announced this. This was reported by Sputnik.

“Ten thousand are due to move in the next few months, and five thousand have already been taken away. They received the Sputnik Light vaccines, and as soon as they develop antibodies, they come here,” the Deputy Minister said.

Today, there is a need for workers at construction sites in Moscow, the Vostochny cosmodrome, in Tula, Kaluga and other cities of the country.

Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree on launching a pilot program to bring 10 thousand labor migrants from Uzbekistan to Russian construction sites. The first workers were expected to leave in October.