On August 3, 2010, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the village of Mokhovoye in the Lukhovitsy District, Moscow Region. The village had been badly damaged by the wildfires. The prime minister told residents that CCTV cameras would be installed at the construction sites for round-the-clock monitoring.
The prime minister was clear that the cameras must show the construction sites and not "some corner or country road." "We and those who will monitor this work must see the real picture," Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with the Minister of Regional Development, Viktor Basargin, on August 18.
CCTV cameras were installed in 38 villages in the 12 constituent entities that suffered the most from the wildfires. The cameras were to send images of the construction process to the government website. Technical specialists maintained the cameras and moved them from finished sites to ongoing construction sites.
The prime minister set an objective to complete the construction by November 1 (except for communities that were damaged by fires in September). "Today, November 1, the work has been completed and all the houses are finished. Those who wanted new homes now have them," Vladimir Putin said from Verkhnyaya Vereya, on November 1. The prime minister visited the village to personally check on the houses and the social infrastructure.
The cameras installed to monitor construction will be removed from the sites that are finished. Twenty-four hour, online transmission from the Volgograd Region and the Altai Territory, where wildfires raged later, will continue until December 1, when construction there is to be finished.