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Russian Navy’s expeditionary unit goes on shore at Novaya Zemlya archipelago

MURMANSK, August 6. /TASS/. Expeditionary unit of Russia’s North Fleet went on shore on Monday in the Krestovaya Guba gulf on Novaya Zemlya Arctic archipelago, which separates the Barents Sea from the Kara Sea.

The naval expedition enjoys support from the Russian Geographic Society, the press service of the fleet said.

"The expedition unit arrived at the starting point of the route aboard the Georgiy Pobedonosets [St George the Victorious] big amphibious ship," the report said. "It made landfall in the gulf of Krestovaya Guba on an unimproved beach."

From the point of disembarkation, the expedition party will continue their voyage on five DT-10-P snow and swamp going cars. Their main objective is to cross Novaya Zemlya’s Northern Island from Krestovaya Guba to Neznayemy Bay by the path, which the Russian researcher of the Arctic, Vladimir Rusanov traveled for the first time 110 years ago.

From Neznayemy Bay, the expedition is supposed to move to Russkaya Gavan Bay where it will examine the paths of access to the Northern Island’s icecap and will install a memorial sign commemorating a trip of the Soviet North Fleet’s submarine detachment to the bay in 1936.

In the third leg of the voyage, the expedition will make a trek from Cape Zhelaniya to Ledyanaya Gavan [Icy Haven] bay to commemorate the Arctic trailblazers and Novaya Zemlya researchers like Willem Barents, Georgy Sedov, Vladimir Wiese, Mikhail Pavlov, Mikhail Yermolayev, and Vladislav Koryakin.

The party has about a month to complete the program. The backbone group of the expedition unit consists of the servicemen who took part in a similar expedition to Novaya Zemlya’s Southern Island in June.