and small maneuverable icebreakers of the vitus bering series deliver the necessary cargo to the drilling platforms located there. today, sovcomflot is the world leader in ice-class vessels, oil tankers, gas supply tankers, one of the largest tanker companies on the planet, it is a modern and super-passable vessel that can even withstand the two-meter ice of the arctic ocean and the unthinkable arctic frosts. suffice it to say that the gas carrier is of the type of crosses. demar is rusting. this is 45. mw, power. we have new icebreakers 60 million. if imagine, here, uh, we are with you. uh, in our office about artferation. ah, the length of the tanker, creed maria, is 60 meters longer. and they are also specialists who set themselves a goal. seemingly impossible challenge at

the beginning of the new millennium. it was the transportation of oil and gas produced in the most difficult climatic conditions of the arctic and the far east, their current task is no less difficult in general. to fulfill the centuries-old dream of sailors to establish year-round navigation along the northern sea route, the most difficult and most promising direction of the new millennium. they are somewhat similar to cosmonauts in space because they also go into the unknown. today we are already one step away from fulfilling this task. well, how did it happen that it is the russian crews that make it impossible and it is not by chance that our country, sochi, is a difficult story. in the new millennium, she became the owner of a fleet that is capable of what no one else in the world dares to do and that is able to answer the most difficult challenges before it is possible. this is a feasible history of the modern commercial fleet of russia for 50

for years, i saw a lot of this and the birth in spite of the soviet planned economy and the threat of complete disappearance in the abyss of the nineties and its revival to what it is now, and the soviet merchant fleet and the russian merchant fleet lived, lives and will live in the interests of the country, the needs and economy in transport services first of all , the need for foreign trade, which led to its creation in 1973, was huge, although not obvious to the average soviet citizen of those years. actually it didn’t become obvious to the majority, just because the fleet that solved this problem. as a result, a catastrophic drought of the seventy-second year appeared, which led to a global food crisis, which also affected the ussr. a huge country began to lack what it

was famous for throughout the world of grain, we are now producing and exporting it in record volumes. and the soviet union in those days bought 50 million tons of grain, 50 million tons per year, ironically, in these volumes. it ended up at the main geopolitical the enemy of the ussr, the usa and canada, but geopolitics then it seemed not the only problem , the big question was how to deliver this grain from there to our own fleet. at that time, e was not enough and all the possibilities of its shipbuilding industry were the shipbuilding industry of the country. sef, they were also not enough to promptly solve this issue, how to solve american ships at inflated rates, to attract her to pay for this american fleet, and it took about 360 million dollars a year, therefore the logical question is how to reduce these

crazy costs and the logical answer is to get your own fleet as soon as possible with an offer. how can this be done to the chairman of the council of ministers alexei kosygin, then the head of the mines of the navy , timofey guzhenko, and the head of the foreign trade association, lie, nikolai zuev, their idea then seemed impossible to adopt in the ussr a commercial, that is, a capitalist fleet replenishment scheme. that is, we rent a vessel with the right to transfer ownership after paying it the cost of earning currency by these steamships is a very simple system. simple times are not very good for the planned soviet economy . obviously something out of the ordinary in

the politburo. this idea was received with hostility by many pernicious capitalism, but , nevertheless, alexei nikolaevich kosygin, whom we consider to be the actual creator of sovcomflot in march 1973, decided to sanction such operations, because he did what he did internally. considered right, and when a person is convinced that what he is doing is right? this can be achieved already 10 years after kosygin's decision , the soviet navy occupied the fourth place in the world. will go. it's a tremendous speed there. this is a colossal efficiency of 75%. by the end of the 1980s, sovkomflot, already a significant player in the world shipping market, became the first shareholder in the ussr. a society that worked according to international standards and earned

currency for the foreign trade of the country of the soviets, it was a time of great expectations and great hopes, then the end of the cold war was put, as it is believed to have happened in malta in 1989, the meeting of the leaders of the two opposing superpowers, mikhail gorbachev and george bush sr., took place on board a sovcomflot cruise liner . maxim gorky was a recession fool, one of these superpowers had very little time left. who managed not without loss, but to survive in the abyss of the nineties can be counted on the fingers of one of these there will be a sovkomflot. although then it was difficult for many to believe in 1991.

sovcomflot ships transported about 1 million tons, and the carrying capacity of the fleet was already about 3 million tons, that is, imagine this. this means that we were somewhere at the bottom completely already, and foreign trade was disrupted. and the reservation of cargo was violated , this was the time when the russian commercial fleet could cease to exist altogether, multimillion-dollar debts, lack of funds from the soviet fleet, then many expected only one thing to sell the ships and give up their role by a foreign carrier. what the west openly pushed us to do, but again it was impossible to do. can you imagine the atmosphere of the 1990s, a complete mess, everyone is looking for what where and how to

profit, and in these conditions my task was to save. uh, and it was saved. if perseverance devotedly did not work, then in the nineties it would not have been possible to simply operate its modern look as one of the leaders in sea transportation of energy carriers sovcomflot i started buying in the mid 2000s. it was a period when the country was forming a new market entry channel. here is this important

nomenclature for us. this was due to the development of the pipeline system of our country at the same time we practically. witness the beginning of the development of sakhalin projects of the arctic projects varandey new port. uh, pozlomnaya e of the yamal novatek projects. each of these projects had objective needs for sea transportation of produced oil and liquefied natural gas sovcomflot again sets itself the possible task of satisfying these needs. even more impossible. this task turned out to be because it was the most difficult region of the arctic . the factors of energy production are important

- energy consumption, but no less important factor . this is transit. uh, how is the energy resource available to customers and sovcomflot along with the modern pipeline transport of the russian federation , this task has been completed. and ensuring the strategic interests of the russian federation , the new era began with the 2008 project the first batch of oil produced on the russian arctic shelf was shipped to the first arctic tankers of the fleet of the vasily dinkov series, among which the vessel already known to you is named after the minister of the navy of the ussr timofey as early as next year , the first russian plant for liquefying natural gas was launched on sakhalin lng transportation the modern gas carrier granta niva started from there. well , another vessel, which is part of the

sovcomflot group of companies, in 2010 got into all the world news bulletins. somali this morning pirates seized the tanker moscow university, owned by the novorossiysk shipping company, carrying 86,000 tons of oil and 23 sailors. the plan of the armed bandits, namely, to take hostages and then demand a ransom for their release, was not destined to come true, thanks to the brave actions of unarmed sailors, repelling several attempts to board the ship and type by order of the captain. closed in the engine room help was close. register only the speed. do not lose speed, do not get lost in less than a day the ship and the crew were liberated by the russian military from the anti-submarine ship that arrived in time for the sos signal marshal shaposhnikov the captain of the tanker , yuri tulchinsky, was later awarded the order of courage. his team received medals for

courage based on this story , an action-packed feature film, 22 minutes, will be released a few years later. let's. in its business, the moscow university tanker became famous for the fact that it was he who received the first batch of oil from the far east terminal. casino having opened an important page in the history of the country's development, we begin loading. descent figuratively speaking, sovcomflot, uh, is participating in taking over the baton to me in technical deliveries from pipeline transport over the past 10 years, about 200 million tons of oil and oil products have been shipped from the sea terminals of the transneft system to sovcomflot tankers and another pioneer tankers mikhail ulyanov and kirill lavrov built

at the admiralty shipyards. thanks to the soviet fleet, the names of the people's artists of the ussr in 2014 entered the history of the development of the arctic field during the broken ones , i can say that it really was very a difficult task and few companies in the world. if we talk about sea carriers that were able to cope and solve this problem, sovcomflot successfully coped with this task. well, a breakthrough in the history of the development of the northern sea route happened in 1920 and 21. for the first time, the tanker krest to juniper was on a commercial voyage, that is, with a cargo of liquefied gas of more than 170,000 cubic meters from the terminal of the yamal lng plant, through the most difficult seas of the arctic ocean, the kara laptev east siberian chukotka through the bering strait, first in may, and then in january-february, in the language of athletes. these were absolute

world records. the captain of the tanker sergei will later be awarded the fourth class order of merit for the fatherland for this. having spent 400 years on the development of the northern sea route, it was probably laid down by the entire course of history that we should be pioneers here. this is probably our destiny . sovcomflot has been preparing for these flights, which have already become regular , for more than 10 years, together with the ministry of transport, the atomic fleet and novatek in 2010. the first experimental passages on skf tankers took place. baltika and vladimir tikhonov who went down in history as the world's first large-capacity vessels that carried out transit along the entire route. everyone on the sea route in the east direction, it was the headquarters of comfort, namely

the crews of the soft, comfort, uh, were, uh, participants. yes, they responded to our calls e here on this kind of e. challenges let's go let 's go in may. let's look at caravan. let's go in january. in a sense , one can say yes, pioneers, without whom today it would be impossible to say that, uh, the northern sea route is getting a new life, because they provide us with sovereignty in this area, the opportunity not only to mine ourselves. e, but also deliver to the consumer for these products and of course for the role of e sovcomflot. here is the key to mastering. e key e deposits of liquefied natural gas. in the arctic, first of all , the tanker crosses. yes, the major ship is unique in many ways in terms of stern- forward patency. it can overcome food with a thickness

of more than 2 m, and this is not the limit, but also a vessel. can e pass through the growth, and up to 15 m high, blurring it. with its technical characteristics, this ship is already partially responding to the demands of the energy of the future, which unequivocally relies on natural gas. now it is mainly supplied through pipelines, but according to estimates, by 2050. this proportion can change exactly the opposite . the arctic port of sabetta is the youngest seaport in russia , part of the yamal lng project. side of the omsk bay, the gydan peninsula is located a little less well-known than yamal. and this is the place for the implementation of another ambitious project. arctic lng-2 and they say

here the plant in terms of capacity will not be inferior to this without a fleet, none of the arctic projects for the extraction and processing of hydrocarbons was specialized vessels. it is possible that the tanker of crosses domoderi was built specifically for the yamal spb project, just now its tanks are being loaded, which can hold 172,000 cubic meters along this red line. as i understand it, do not pour it higher, moreover, natural gas for this giant ship is both cargo and fuel. that is, we climbed loaded what evaporates there. you use for your own movement, liquefied natural gas due to its properties. one of the most environmentally friendly fuels, non- toxic, non-flammable, colorless, odorless. if you don’t like physics very much, but you have a good spatial imagination, then

imagine in order to transfer all the gas that is contained here in tanks but not in liquid form, but in the usual gaseous form, then, in principle, you will need the same vessel, but no longer 300 m long, but 18. kila meters, and this unique tanker also has a position that you will not find on any other neo-orctic vessel. this is the ice advisor. here he is really called the ice captain and for a reason sergey ivanovich what the ice captain does the duties of the ice captain before each sailing in the ice, depending on the flights, i evaluate together with the captain of the ice conditions. i myself was a captain, i know this is why i try all the loads associated with ice navigation. i'm like to take on, but how it turns out in tandem to work in tandem is one of the first skills that you need to learn to work in

the arctic once again. you yourself are almost an icebreaker, whether you like it or not, you are responsible, not only for yourself behind us, it means that you are still following, so, uh , so 1 2. and five ships and we are already helping them unequivocally. you can't work in the arctic without helping each other. it has already developed into lumps such an unspoken arctic law. follow those who are stronger or follow the beaten path that icebreakers of the rosatom fleet make every day in the ice or vessels of an increased ice class , sovcomflot will soon have many such ships . an even more advanced gas carrier has been developed and is being built specifically for the arctic lng-2 project. here, the unique experience that we gained formed the basis of a new project of modernized arctic gas, adapted for year-round navigation . in the eastern sector of the arctic, the project was

specially adapted for construction at a new russian shipbuilding enterprise. it's more complex. well, i think that we will finish with honor and it will be whole. no, it is already known that the lead tanker of fifteen vessels will be named after alexei kosygin, who once gave the start to the development of the country's modern commercial fleet, and now it is he who plans the soviet fleet and realizes the main dream of the conquerors of the arctic, but we are on the threshold of the beginning of year-round sustainability sustainability of navigation along the entire route of the northern sea route. and that will be the question. well, in the very near future , a new tanker is being built for the ships of the zvezda shipyard in primorye , and the point here is not at all about sanctions, as some probably thought of building a new generation of arctic gas carriers. we started here back in the 21st year and is one of our most important partners. which was ordered

here at the shipyard by the star, including the espal in the northern version of the arctic today. we handed over for sovcomflot in the twenty-second year in december. first tanker. the so-called green afromax has a displacement of 114,000 tons, and it is already working in the interests of rosneft under concluded contracts. at the same time there is a huge order. sovcomflot's fleet, which will operate lng tankers, are gas carriers. arctic design - these are high-tech ships not just of the arctic class arseniy these are space technologies, that is , russian ships made at russian shipyards by the hands of russian specialists work in tandem, as in the arctic, together for the benefit of our economy and those who want to build with our country partnerships, taking into account those forecasts for economic growth in terms of

consumption growth. not in the world of energy, even though for development. there, solar wind generation hydrocarbons will remain, well, from the key ones in the energy balance for a long time to come, therefore, our products will be in demand, we are sure of this, and without uh, russian energy resources or products that are processed from it into final products, it will be difficult to provide uh economic development in the world. there is an improvement in the quality of life. uh, power supply energy security. this is how, according to the ministry of natural resources , the reserves of the arctic chief of russia are distributed seven and three tenths of a billion tons oil. this is about 53 billion barrels, more than 2 billion tons of condensate and about 55 trillion cubic meters of gas. these figures, of course, are approximately estimates of up to 17 billion tons of liquid hydrocarbons and up to 85 trillion cubic meters of gas. there is one truth, but rather,

two of these gigantic volumes. need to get more. and this is not easy in order to work in the arctic to extract. there, hydrocarbons have to solve a large number of complex tasks and various challenges, including complex geology. this is the harsh climate - this is the remoteness from infrastructure and these two volumes. it still needs to be delivered to the consumer from there. and how to do it? this is already the next impossible task and work on how to solve it is already going on now, after all, as you know. the main thing in life is that which has yet to be done. we are on the spot. we can not stand, i think the future. right now at the base. e works with this solution, of course , engineering solutions are born for the following projects, which may well be different from those solutions that were effective for this period.

they are now studying to implement the following projects at the leading maritime academies of the country in vladivostok , novorossiysk-st. petersburg , future graduates face no less ambitious and impossible tasks. at the same time , the northern sea route is no longer called. er, of course, it's not an easy track. there you need to study the depths. this can be done by our coregraphers. there you have to go on large ships. this can be done by our navigators, ship mechanics, it is necessary to build ports, and they will be built with the help of our hydraulic engineers. gotta work in port. this will be done by our porters. but tell me, here you are, you want to become a captain, right, of course, we are going to this maria, a fifth-year student, another no less famous maritime university ushakovka, which is located in the tanker capital of our

country in novorossiysk, already has significant plans for the future u already have an understanding of where you will work? or there are already some offers of invitation. why, come to us to work first in the sovcomflot and do the second internship, also in the sovcomflot. do you mean some kind of guaranteed there is a workplace. we are just leaving the university, that is, the future conquerors of the arctic and not only will have a lot of work, because it is not just about laying a route, but to turn the northern sea route into a broadband road the northern sea route is, in fact, a lot of logistics corridor for all mankind. okay for the government of the russian federation in the development of the northern sea route. it provides for more than one and a half trillion investments, to be honest, their state is a huge program that we are engaged in and

will try to keep within the allotted time. according to the plan for the development of the northern sea route, the deadlines are set until 2035. this is the development of fields and the production of energy resources, ensuring their operation, the transportation of oil and gas, as well as the supply of a whole range of complex tasks in not the simplest climatic conditions without the experience of safe operation without a specialized reliable and environmentally friendly fleet, these tasks. indeed, the twelfth century would have been largely unfeasible . this is the age of the ocean and the sea. in this part relevance of the future of the fleet. it does not cause any doubts, it will be in demand.

wanted to do everything possible to prevent it was always considered with russia more than 20,000 people a day biblo during the great patriotic war we are at a very dangerous moment in human history what is happening now in ukraine the lessons textbook 2018 edition of june 22 marked as the beginning of the german -soviet war. well , ukraine has nothing to do with the lessons of the past. otherwise, we will repeat it, politicians who use speculators from history accept decision based on.

we continue to review the news president aslanbzhaniya of abkhazia fully supported the actions of the russian authorities during the events of june 24 , he stated this in a telephone conversation with vladimir putin dzhane. he expressed full support for the actions taken by the russian leadership to protect the rule of law and the constitutional order to ensure the security of citizens and stability in the country. during the conversation, topical issues were also discussed. bilateral agendas, including the implementation of the outlined plans for the socio-economic development of abkhazia