The main topics of the issue:

KAMENNOMYSSKOE-MORE: GOING OFFSHORE

The portfolio of the Russian Arctic’s projects has received another prospect – the Kamennomysskoye-More field. Scheduled to be put into operation in 2025, it puzzles the domestic oil industry with its complexity and scale.

IN CAUTION POSITION

August 15, 2018, Chairman of the Russian Government Dmitry Medvedev signed a resolution authorizing the launch of the concession agreement with NLR Ltd. for the purpose of the Northern Latitudinal Railway, the project to construct Obskaya – Salekhard – Nadym – Pangody – Korotchaevo railway and its related infrastructure.

GAS SUPPLY POTENTIAL

Until recently, the majority of industrial projects in the Arctic made use of petroleum products and coal as fuels for transportation and energy supply. Today’s environmental requirements, however, urge new solutions.

UNDER THE WING

The green sea of taiga and the whiteness of the Arctic ice are best to be observed from a bird’s eye view. In the localities reigned by frost and devoid of road net-works, aviation comes not only as the fastest and the safest but also the only af-fordable means of transport.

MACS ON THE ICE

Arctic tourism came into the spotlight in 2009, about the time when the  Russian  Arctic  National  Park  was  set  up.  Still,  it  enjoys  very  lit-tle popularity among the Russian travelers as compared to the Arctic tourism figures of Scandinavia.

THE DISTANT SHORES

The story of how northerners, the Pomors, appeared to be the first ex-plorers of the Russian Arctic has been the subject of many scholarly and popular articles. Yet, only few know that the culture of the Arc-tic navigation originates from far inland, the area far off the White Sea Coast.