The research vessel "Akademik Treshnikov" owned by the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet) set sail from Arkhangelsk on July 28, 2014 on her first Arctic voyage, the service Northern department said.
In Arkhangelsk, the expedition team consisting of specialists from Roshydromet's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), Granberg Research Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean, the RAC's Institute of Geography, as well as helicopter reconnaissance crew from Avialift Vladivostok came aboard adopted expedition.
The Arctic mission is aimed at obtaining new data on hydrometeorological and ice conditions in the Kara, Laptev and Chukchi seas, necessary for the safety of maritime activities on the Arctic shelf. The voyage is said to take 82 days and the vessel is scheduled to return to St. Petersburg on 10 October.
The RV Akademik Treshnikov will call at the port of Kiel, Germany and then will bound for the marginal seas of the Russian Arctic from Novaya Zemlya to Wrangel Island.
The RV Akademik Treshnikov was built at the Admiralty Shipyards for Roshydromet. In the future, the research vessel will replace the RV Akademik Fedorov that has worked more than 20 years in Antarctica and in the Arctic.