Upgrading russian icebreaker fleet: an acknowledgement of business conditions or a strategic requirement?

... conditions of solid ice cover. Expectedly, such wide opportunities would facilitate data collection necessary to comprehend the climate evolution as well as tectonic and paleographic Earth development . *** Russia, as a country with the access to the Arctic Ocean, cannot do without an icebreaker fleet destined to carry out nationwide tasks in search-and-rescue operations, support of polar research expeditions, weather monitoring, as well as to accomplish missions assigned to the Russian Navy. However, whether the icebreaker vessels ...