Figure 2. The various Northern Sea Route options

The Northern Sea Route Its Development and Evolving State of Operations in the 1990s

THE NORTHERN SEA ROUTE ADVANTAGE

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Key Straits in Russian Arctic Seas G R E E N L A N D

A K atochkin Shar

C Yara Gate (Karskiye Vorota)

D Sugorskiy Shar

F Sorisa Vil'kitskogo

H L mitriya Lapteva

Figure 1. The Russian Arctic.

ver-the Pole Route

Figure 2. The various Northern Sea Route options.

into the Commonwealth of Independent States

inexperience with free enterprise and reductions

(CIS). One way to address these problems may lie

in state subsidies have resulted in unemployment

in the Commonwealth's ability to stimulate do-

and excess capacity in all sectors of the economy,

mestic growth and attract foreign trade. Although

including the Arctic marine transportation system.

it is fortunate that authority over the entire NSR

Historically, the USSR claimed that crucial sec-

transferred intact to the new Russian Federation,

tions of the Northern Sea Route passed through

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