Мурманская миля. 2016, № 3.

IN THE STRUGGLE WITH THE KARA SEA Photo essay by Pavel VISHNEVSKY The RV GEOLOG DMITRIY NALIVKIN has passed dozens of thousands nautical miles in the vast expanses of the World Ocean from the Arctic to the Antarctic. It has shot dozens thousand kilometers of the sea-bottom lines which were plotted on the marine geologic maps. For the last 30 years it has carried hundreds top-ranked specialists on its board who have gone through its school and treating it like home. But the honored steamboat (traditionally, Murmansk seafarers call any their vessel “steamboat” ) is not going to retire. Pavel Vishnevsky, the special correspondent of the Murmansk Mile journal, joined another expedition to the Kara and Laptev Seas which was carried out from July to November 2014. 40 CAPE NALIVKIN In the spring of 1985 I, being a correspondent of the Komsomolets Zapolyarya paper, was lucky to feast my eyes on the newest research vessel in the waters of the Kola Bay. Then the NALIVKIN was a ‘white steamboat’ in the truest sense of the word: it was a small and completely white ship 72 meters long and of the deadweight comprising 2,150 tons. It was just a remarkable fair lady in the harbor! And in 1988 I had an occasion to visit Pankratyev Island in the Northwest part of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. While I and my companions were studying the large-scale coastal map at the radiogeodesic station founded by other geological company based in Murmansk, AMIGE (Arctic Marine Engineering Geological Expeditions), we noticed Cape Nalivkin situated fifty kilometers to the north of Pankratyev Island. Wasn’t it the very Nalivkin MAGE’s new vessel was named after? It turned out it was him. Already in the 1930s the Soviet Arctic pioneers had memorialized the famous geologist on maps. And thus, in July 2014 I was lucky to pass this cape being onboard the RV GEOLOG DMITRIY NALIVKIN as the research vessel was passing from the Barents Sea to the Kara MURMANSK MILE • 3-2016