world's ChAnnel Four lABorAtory For Moving AnniversAries State-of-the-art ships ForwArd oF vityAz for fundamental scientific How to support intensive growth History of the legendary scientific researches of the Institute of the market for internal cruise and research vessel, now the main exhibit of Oceanology p. 8 tourism in Russia p. 30 of the World Ocean Museum p. 22 INFORMATION BULLETIN FOR THE SPIEF-2019 FEATURE ONE THE NATURE UNIFYING THE WORLD Alexey rAkhMAnov: AdvAnCed shiPBuilding – A PAss to the oCeAns p. 6 strength and power at sea addReSS: 115184, MOScOW, bOlSHaya tataRSkaya, bld. 11Б jSc USc’S pReSIdent alexey RakHManOv cHIef edItOR: alIya kaRIMOva execUtIve edItOR: MaRIa aRSenyeva www.aoosk.ru deSIgn and MakeUp: ‘klIMOv deSIgn StUdIa’. tel.:+7 (499) 740-60-18. WWW.klIMOv-deSIgn.RU tHe vIeWS Of tHe aUtHORS May dIffeR fROM tHe pOSItIOn Of tHe edItORIal Staff. tHe fROnt cOveR: fROM www.shutterstock.com shutterstock INForMAtIoN BuLLetIN sPIeF-2019 TIME FOR MODERNIZATION / page 02 Denis MANTUROV, Russian Minister of Industry and Commerce NEW RUSSIA’S FLEET IN THE WORLD OCEAN / page 03 The balance of forces for researching ocean resources ADVANCED SHIPBUILDING – A PASS TO THE OCEANS / page 06 The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum will discuss effective use of ocean resources WORLD’S LABORATORY / page 08 Research of the World Ocean and national security THE ARCTIC NEEDS A FLEET / page 12 How to incite the economic growth of the region SCIENCE WORK PLATFORM / page 14 "Vympel" design bureau designed a floating "science club" at the North Pole OCEAN – THE TERRITORY OF SCIENCE / page 18 Modernization of the largest research fleet of Russia THE AGE OF VITYAZ / page 22 The largest museum research vessel VIityaz A MERCHANT, VOYAGER, AND WRITER / page 25 A merchant of Tver Afanasy Nikitin and his legendary "Journey beyond three seas" (khozhenie za tri morya) FLOATING POWER UNIT: FUTURE OF SHIPBUILDING AND POWER INDUSTRY / page 26 On final phase of works at Akademik Lomonosov floating power unit CRUISE TOURISM AS A DRIVER OF ECONOMIC GROWTH / page 30 Cruise shipping in the Caspian Sea, sea transport and inland waterways of Russia ROMANCING AN ICEBREAKER / page 34 The 135TH anniversary since the birth of Evgeniy Zamyatin, a russian writer and chiff surveyor of the first russian icebreacers building ”ICE CONTINENT” / page 36 The 200TH anniversary of Antarctica discovery by Russian circumnavigatory naval mission under command of Bellingshausen and Lazarev HIGHER LEAGUE / page 38 Season V of National Sailing League race Hi-tech commercial vessels, ranging from fishing to research and to cruise, are constructed at Russia’s shipyards very intensively. Between the Baltic Sea and the Pacific Ocean, TIME FOR the recognized leader in shipbuilding is the United Shipbuilding Corp. accounting for most of Russia’s MODERNIZATION shipbuilding capacity, provided by numerous design bureaus, special research centers, shipyards, ship-repairing and mechanical-engineering enterprises. The state policy goal in this field is to meet the needs of citizens, business and state in modern ships and vessels. Effective exploration of the World Ocean To support shipbuilders in Russia, state authorities take is contingent on modern fleet, developed and a whole range of measures, already starting bearing fruits. competitive shipbuilding industry The year 2018 saw the growth rate of commercial shipbuilding in Russia at 128.1 percent and we expect it to hold in 2019. Denis MANTUROV / Russian Minister of Industry and Commerce / 2 I Informational bulletin Informational bulletin I 3 Georgiy Poltavchenko / Chairman of the USC’s board of directors / neW RUSSIa’S F leet In the WoRlD ocean The role of the World Ocean is coming to the fore, and this is linked primarily to the breakthrough development of shipbuilding technologies, which permit to have a new look at the water force and continue its exploration, understanding that many things are now within the scope of abilities of a human being et we are not controlling the ocean, but we are moving to This decision of the country’s leadership came very unexpectedly a considerable extent towards peaceful coexistence with for him as a person who was so much devoted to the Navy. Then he it. Present-day vessels allow us to study the ocean depths, recommended me to choose another profession as he did not realize explore the shelf of the Arctic Region, search for natural at that time what will be the destiny of the Fleet and how the naval resources, lay down underwater pipelines, which are science will develop further. As a result, my destiny was different, but Yimportant for the country’s economy. the passion for the fleet has not disappeared ever since. When in 2019 The sea and ships have been present in my life practically President Vladimir Putin suggested that I should become the head of since its very beginning. My father Sergey Petrovich Poltavchenko the board of directors of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, I was was a graduate of the M.V. Frunze Leningrad Higher Naval School not surprised at all. The life journey was different, but I finally came to and devoted his life to the naval service. He served at a base of this profession and in a certain way I do continue our naval dynasty of the USSR’s Black Sea Fleet in the Georgian town of Poti. The top the Poltavchenko family. of his career was the position of the commander of a detachment It was not by chance that I shared this story. Just over the past few of anti-submarine ships. We always had discussions about the sea decades, first the Soviet and then the Russian fleet went through several and the fleet in our family, and it was quite natural that, being a small milestones, the essence of which can be expressed in the formula: from boy, I wanted to step after my father and cast in lot with the sea almost complete disintegration to revival. And in this article I would like and the fleet. to dwell on some, in my opinion, important aspects of the development When I was an adult person already, we had a serious of the Russian Navy and merchant fleet, because right now the turning talk with the father, and I shared with him my desire to continue point has come when, as it is written in the USC motto, we are building the dynasty of naval officers in the Poltavchenko family. But a fleet of a strong country it was the year 1961 when Nikita Khrushchev, the first secretary Many serious achievements became possible exactly due to of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet the development of shipbuilding technologies, appearance of computer Union, launched a fleet reform, and my father’s anti-submarine modeling and design. Russian shipbuilders are possessing unique detachment was supposed to be disbanded. The party and competences on construction of complicated ships, starring from the government decided to focus on missile weapons. The Navy the atomic icebreaking fleet, creation of different oceanic platforms fell into disfavor, and many officers were informed that their for the extraction of natural resources, as well as for the needs service is to be completed. My father was among those officers. of hydrometeorology. 2 I Informational bulletin Informational bulletin I 3 Research-expedition vessel of project 22280 “Academician Treshnikov” the current geopolitical situation pose to our country, perhaps the most important question, on how to keep the balance of forces in the World Ocean. Peaceful explorations of the oceanic vast are not feasible without Russia’s naval presence in the main economic areas. Therefore, the modernization and construction of the military component of the fleet must continue. We have already made significant progress on this path. As Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Sergey Gorshkov noted in his book “The Sea Power of a State”, “It is a mistake to try The launching ceremony of the leading to create a fleet following the experience and pattern even of the trawler-seiner of project SK-3101R “Leninets” at the Yantar most powerful maritime state and to determine the requirements Baltic Shipbuilding Plant in the construction of ships for the own fleet based exclusively on the quantitative criteria and correlation of the types of ships… Each country has its specific need in naval forces, and only that need, determined by the tasks of the fleet, may serve as a basis for the development of branches, forces, classes of ships and weapons.” What is the main purpose of the Navy today? It seems that our main strategic task (by the way, the President of Russia has repeatedly spoken on this) is primarily to ensure our economic interests and create conditions under which the Russian Navy would be the guarantor of a calm and peaceful study of the World Ocean. Our Navy has never been and will never be a baton fleet. We are not going to threaten anyone. We just want to guarantee our right to work in the World Ocean in a reliable way. And our country Cruise passenger vessels of project PV300 has such a right historically, and we will not leave the world water area. The USC is building a fleet of the far sea zone, is engaged in projects that provide reliable research of the Arctic latitudes. Therefore, the creation of modern types of warships is headed in the only right direction: every ship is a guarantor of the peaceful development of the World Ocean. Shipbuilding is one of the leading Russian industries. Over the past fifteen years the country has managed to move forward seriously in the re-equipment of its Navy, which is why the issues of the merchant fleet are coming to the fore now.