After The Disintegration of The Soviet Union
After the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, commercial navigation in the Siberian Arctic went into decline. More or less regular shipping is found only from Murmansk to Dudinka in the west and between Vladivostok and Pevek in the east. Ports between Dudinka and Pevek see virtually no shipping. Logashkino and Nordvik were abandoned and are now ghost towns.
Renewed interest led to several demonstration voyages in 1997 including the passage of the Finnish product tanker Uikku.
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