ISSN (print) - 0131-7652

ISSN (online) - 2686-7605

Vol. 48 No. 4 (2018)
COVER STORY: DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH TERRITORIES AND THE ARCTIC

Russia on Spitsbergen: History of Studying, a Problem of Development of a Subsoil and Prospect on the Future

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  • A. Yevdokimov,
  • Ya. Kryukov,
  • A. Sirotkin
A. Yevdokimov
St. Petersburg Mining University
Bio
Ya. Kryukov
Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering, SB RAS
Bio
A. Sirotkin
the Polar sea prospecting expedition
Bio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30680/ECO0131-7652-2018-4-83-101

Published 2018-07-09

Keywords

  • SPITSBERGEN,
  • RUSSIAN PRESENCE IN THE ARCTIC,
  • GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH,
  • ECONOMY OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORIES,
  • NORWAY,
  • INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE ARCTIC
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How to Cite

1.
Yevdokimov А, Kryukov Я, Sirotkin А. Russia on Spitsbergen: History of Studying, a Problem of Development of a Subsoil and Prospect on the Future. ECO [Internet]. 2018 Jul. 9 [cited 2024 Nov. 24];48(4):83-101. Available from: https://ecotrends.ru/index.php/eco/article/view/1190

Abstract

The little-known Russian territories with the official status of own lands are located On Spitsbergen (Svalbard). Here are several coal-fields in which development are engaged the state trust Arktikugol on the field Barentsburg and Norwegian Sturre Norske near Longiyerbyuen. Russia has done all range of geological researches of the archipelago in Soviet period, paying the mainattention to mapping and a research of reserves of minerals: coal, oil, phosphorites, polymetals, gold. However, the Norwegian administration of the archipelago in every possible way brakes a possibility of their further studying and development, putting forward ecological motives not of a possibility of conducting exploration works. While reserves of coal will be over the Russian presence on the archipelago can be developed in implementation of scientific programs conducted with the new Russian research center formed in Barentsburg in 2014.
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