Popular Maritime Magazine #1 in Russia www.ocean-magazin.ru www.океанжурнал. рф (495) 783 4711 [email protected] Russian Maritime Magazine Special issue © design. studio !ocEAn 2012 n EA oc Beautiful World of Ocean... ! studio . design © Photo: Sovcomflot SatelliteSatellite TV TVchannel Channel 1O,OOO,OOO1O,OOO,OOO viewers viewers EXPO 2012: discovery of OCEAN ThiS AmAzing ArcTic 4 ArcTic: climATE And icE cAp chAngE 48 ocEAnic rESEArch 86 EnErgy And rESourcES nATurE pArkS of ThE ThE frigATE pAllAdA 88 of ThE ocEAn 6 ruSSiAn norTh And fAr EAST 50 ThE frigATE pAllAdA: horizonS of SAkhAlin EnErgy 16 SAvE polAr bEAr! 64 rEAding clASSic AuThor 94 ThE norThErn SEA rouTE 20 diving in ruSSiAn norTh 68 SuccESSorS: SAil TrAining ShipS www.ocean-tv.su e-mail: [email protected] (495) 783-47-10 pAllAdA And nAdEzhdA 112 ATomic conquErorS uniquE And mySTEriouS bAikAl 78 of ThE ArcTic 26 vlAdivoSTok 118 partners lAkE voSTok rESEArch ruSSiAn columbuS in AnTArcTicA 84 vAryAg’S And korEyETz’S rElicS 120 of ThE ХХ cEnTury 38 цифровое СПУТНиКовое ТелевидеНие OCEAN have been attracting people minds from the ancient time. 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And every diving brings not only answers but new ergey Balakin s questions. from Past to photo: That is way the concept of Russian Pavilion at Expo 2012 is named: Future expo 2012 Korea, Yeousu – Worldwide exhibitions planet of ocean technology nature & ecology science deep water sailing city & sea 26 & discovery 4 16 Atomic 48 68 94 118 This Amazing Horizons of Conquerors Arctic: 78 Diving The Frigate Vladivostok of the Arctic vladivostok is the largest city on the Arctic Sakhalin Energy Russia is the only country operating Climate and Ice Unique and in Russian North Pallada: Reading Russian Pacific coast, the administra- The name Arctic comes from the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Swimming under the ice sheet on a nuclear-powered icebreakers. These tive center of the Primorye territory and Greek word «Arktos». This word means Ltd is implementing the Sakhalin-2 Cap Change Mysterious Baikal sunny day cannot be described with Classic Author powerful ships are real conquerors of Lake Baikal makes 20 percent of the The main result of long and dangerous the trans-Siberian railroad terminal. «bear», but not the animal, but celestial Project on the basis of the Production The Arctic may be the most sensitive words – the experience will always be the severe Arctic. world’s surface waters (excluding gla- trip is a book «The Frigate Pallada», It has more than 600,000 residents. constellation Ursa Minor, which in- Sharing Agreement (PSA) with the Rus- region of the planet, and local changes remembered by those who take a look ciers and ice of Antarctica). which was published in 1858. cludes the North Star. sian Federation. have an effect on the entire world. behind the crystal glass at least once… 6 ships & shipping history 50 84 history 112 memory Energy and Nature Parks Lake Vostok Re- Successors: Sail Resources 20 38 of the Russian search in Antarctica 88 training ships Pal- 120 The Northern Russian Columbus «The penetration into the subglacial The Frigate Pallada Varyag’s and of the Ocean North and Far East Lake vostok in Antarctica – is the «So, we raised the anchor. The sea lada and Nadezhda Sea Route of the ХХ Century Plenty of invertebrate, fish, bird and sea Long-lasting trips on a sailing ship – Koreyetz’s Population of our planet is growing world’s great achievement that is was heavy and yellow, the clouds were The exploration of the Arctic has They called him a carefree man, mammal species populate the Arctic. is a perfect hardening of future sailors’ every year, and the humanity needs re- comparable in scale with the landing on grey, impenetrable; the rain and snow relics always been a part of the national a darling of fortune and a Russian characters. The knowledge in technics sources for its development. At present Mars», vladimir Kotlyakov said. fell in rotation – that escorted us from Legendary Battle of cruiser varyag and history; the exploration was a must be- Columbus who made the planet’s last is well, but the sea has not changed. it exists using mainly land resources our native country. Shrouds and tackles gunboat Koreyetz against Japanese cause about 1/5 of the Russian territory great geographic discovery. They said It is, as before, formidable and wild that are not at all infinite. were frozen... Frigate with a creak and squadron that happened not far from is located in circumpolar areas. he was a bad sailor who did not know 64 groan, rolled from wave to wave, the power... Chemulpo (Incheon) on Feb.9, 1904 how to moor but he was one of the first Save polar bear! 86 coast near us was buried in mists», – shook the whole world. captains to traverse along the Northern described the beginning of his journey Sea Route. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus), which Oceanic Research are the symbols of the Arctic, could on the frigate Pallada the writer I.A. From space, from surface, probably disappear from our planet by Goncharov. A journey, from which the from deep water… the end of this century, the reason be- honored sailing boat could not come ing continuous global warming. back... COvER: Russian SCF Sakhalin icebreaking platform supply and standby vessel. Photo: Sovcomflot. CONTRIBUTORS: Paulsen Publishing House, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (vNIRO), Russian Geo- !ocEAn maritime magazine was registered with the Federal Service for Supervision over Observance of Law in the Area of Mass Communications and Protection of Cultural Heritage of Russia. graphical Society, Museum of the World ocean (Kaliningrad), International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Alexander Aristarkhov, Sergey Registration certificate ПИ № ФС77-41670 dated August 13, 2010. Founders: Andrey Podkolzin, Daniil Borodin. Balakin, Anton Kostin, Nikita Kuznetsov. Publisher: ADN ltd. 103, volokolamskoye str., 125371 Moscow, Russia. Editor-in-Chief: Sergey Balakin ([email protected]). Art Director: Yury Drobyshev ([email protected]). PHOTOGRAPHERS/AGENCIES: Sovcomflot, Rosatomflot, Gazprom, Sakhalin Energy Investment Co, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, Editorial office: 103, volokolamskoye str., 125371 Moscow, Russia. Tel. +7(495) 783 4711. E-mail: [email protected] www.ocean-magazin.ru Lukoil, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Alexander Aristarkhov, Olga Belonovich , Alexei Konopelko , Yury Maslyaev, vladimir Melnik, vyacheslav Nemyshev, Igor Shpilenok, Printed in Russia. Printing-house: Lev Tolstoy, Tula. vladimir vertyankin, Dmitry Utkin. Copyright: all rights reserved. © !ocEAn maritime magazine, 2012. Russian Maritime Magazine !ocEAn 2 www.ocean-magazin.ru www.океанжурнал.рф !ocEAn 3 www.ocean-magazin.ru www.океанжурнал.рф planet of ocean This Amazing Arctic The name Arctic comes from the Greek word «Arktos». The longest railway bridge north of the Arctic Circle was built This word means «bear», but not the animal, but celestial con- on the Yamal Peninsula across the Yuribei River. Its length is stellation Ursa Minor, which includes the North Star. • 3.9 kilometres and it is part of the main road to Yamal’s largest gas condensate field Bovanenkovo. • Unlike the Antarctic, the Arctic is constantly moving. The most numerous and varied colony of sea birds nests Or rather, the ice in Arctic Ocean is moving – from the east in the Arctic on the famous Rubini Rock that is located in the from the Bering Strait to the west to the Fram Strait. That is why Tikhaya Bay near the Hooker Island. The bird colony on this it is so hard to get on the ice to the North Pole from the nearest rock contains up to 18,000 murres, guillemots, kittiwakes and islands – Franz Josef Land and Greenland. • other seabirds. • The Arctic Ocean’s impost depth is 5,527 metres. And the Arctic Tern is the only bird that seasonally migrates from the thickness of perennial sea ice – 4 metres. • Arctic, where it nests, to Antarctica for wintering and back, cov- ering a record distance of 70,000 kilometres over the year. • The biggest difference between the winter and summer air The Franz Josef Land archipelago is the northernmost temperatures on Earth – up to 100 degrees, has been record- Eurasian land, consisting of 191 islands with a total area ed in the Arctic. The winter air temperatures can drop to 68 de- of 16,090 square kilometres, 80% of which is occupied by grees Celsius below zero, and the summer temperatures can glaciers. The world’s northernmost post office – «Arkhangelsk rise above 30 degrees Celsius above zero. The North Pole’s 163100» works on one of the islands. It opens for 1 hour from average winter temperature is 35 degrees Celsius below zero, 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and and the summer average temperature – about zero degrees Friday. Celsius. Water in the Barents Sea near the southern islands of • Franz Josef Land and at the northern tip of Novaya Zemlya can warm up in July to 6–8 degrees Celsius above zero. • Natural gas reserves in the Arctic by the middle of the 21st The largest land carnivorous animal is the polar bear.