Nuclear icebreaker Yamal to support research vessel Akademik Fyodorov (photo)

On July 30, 2014, nuclear icebreaker Yamal commenced providing icebreaking assistance to research vessel Akademik Fyodorov, press center of FSUE Atomflot says.

The expedition is to accumulate geophysical information on presence of oil-and-gas at Russia’s continental shelf beyond the 200-mile zone. The results will be used as a foundation for Russia’s application to UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.
  
The work is being carried out within the framework of the state contract signed between JSC MAGE (Marine Arctic Geological Expedition) and the Department of Subsoil Resources Management at Continental Shelf and Global Ocean of the Federal Subsoil Resources Management Agency. 

The area under research is about 350,000 square meters. 
  
The icebreaker will be involved up to the middle of September’ 2014.