A giant flag of the USSR – a state that collapsed 35 years ago – greeted the first passenger ship of the season as Russia begins direct travel from Murmansk to Svalbard.
The first of ten voyages this year allowing Russian citizens visa-free access to the Norwegian archipelago departed Murmansk on Sunday.
A man wearing an Arktikugol anorak walks through a blizzard in Barentsburg, on Norway’s Svalbard archipelago. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP) A giant flag of the USSR – a state that collapsed 35 years ago – ...
MOSCOW, June 2. /TASS/. The Professor Molchanov scientific research vessel departed from the Murmansk port heading for the Spitsbergen archipelago, press service of the Arktikugol Trust Company said. ...
According to travel agents, Russians prefer trips to Krasnodar and Stavropol territories, Moscow, Murmansk and Kemerovo regions. The compatriots plan to visit Turkey, Uzbekistan and Abkhazia abroad.