Northern Sea Route the main responsibility for the Northern Sea Route to Rosatom which through its ROSATOMFLOT subsidiary manages the Russian nuclear powered icebreaker fleet. Northern Sea Route The Northern Sea Route (, "Severnyy morskoy put", shortened to Севморпуть, "Sevmorput") is a shipping route officially defined by Russian legislation as lying east of Novaya Zemlya and specifically running along the Russian Arctic coast from the Kara Sea, along Siberia, to the Bering Strait. The entire route lies in Arctic waters and within Russia's exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Parts are free of ice for only two months per year. The overall route on Russia's
Akhmatov Fjord Akhmatov Fjord Akhmatov Fjord, also known as Akhmatov Bay (, "Zaliv Akhmatova"), is a fjord in Severnaya Zemlya, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. This fjord is clogged by ice most of the year. The fjord was named in 1913 after the Russian hydrographer who surveyed it in the course of the Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition led by Boris Vilkitsky on behalf of the Russian Hydrographic Service. Akhmatov Fjord is a fjord with a wide entrance in the northeastern area of Bolshevik Island, the southernmost island of Severnaya Zemlya. It is located southeast of Cape Unslicht on the Laptev Sea shore of the