The role of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) for the Russian population is huge, but there is still a lot of work to be done in this direction. Sergei Ivanov, the Russian President’s special representative for environmental protection, ecology and transport, spoke about the results of the project’s development at the session “The World Transport Northern Sea Route” on 11 September as part of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF).
“Our boats have been surfacing at the North Pole for a long time and effectively, and only we and no one else in the world know how to shoot from the North Pole – this is our know-how,” Ivanov noted.
He also reminded that Sovcomflot’s ice-class vessels have been travelling along the eastern sector already in February-March and successfully passed. According to Ivanov, there is still a lot of work to be done, but the first results have already been achieved.
Ivanov also noted that a climate change monitoring system is now being created and climate polygons are being set up. Most of them, as the politician notes, should be located in the Arctic zone, as the issue of permafrost is a theoretically serious problem and should be seriously investigated.
“Created also the world’s first vessel, which is actually a floating platform, which is now frozen in the Arctic. The Soviet era, when our polar explorers were sitting on ice floes that regularly split, and it was necessary to urgently rescue with huge money this expedition – it has passed. We have modern methods of studying the Arctic,” Ivanov said.
The Northern Sea Route is the shortest water route between the European part of the Russian Federation and the Far East.
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