otto schmitt , is it possible to travel the northern sea route on an icebreaker container ship, unliker icebreakers? fishing, which in sectors and are busy escorting other cargo ships there, regularly travels in arctic waters from and to west to east for 2.5 weeks there the same amount back, if you draw an imaginary line between the island of vaiga and the archipelago. new earth is exactly in this flow it. maybe only a vessel with a permit for independent sailing or a request for icebreaking assistance. this is an iron gate, as in the annals the strait between the new land and the island of vaygach was most likely called today the dakar gates, novgorodians. they went back in the eleventh century to the thirteenth century, the settlers completely pushed the karelians in a coma and the lapps and began to be called pomors, the ocean was their main breadwinner, but the pomors had to defend the right to fish from the viking normans, they were not afraid of cold weather, winds storms, wintering on the islands and knew the oparia very well. there was simply no other sea of the russian state