VLADIVOSTOK. Sept 2 (Interfax-AVN) - Cargo has been delivered to the Wrangel Island and the Otto Schmidt Cape to support the deployment of permanent Arctic bases of the Russian Pacific Fleet, fleet spokesman Capt. 1st Rank Roman Martov told Interfax-AVN on Tuesday.
"The Valery Vasilyev vessel has unloaded its cargo and departed for Arkhangelsk. Cargo will be unloaded from the Capitan Starostin, Gennady Tsygankov and Johann Mahmastal ships within days. In all, approximately 3,000 tonnes of cargo of various purposes will be brought to the shore," Martov said.
He said the unloading was being done under complicated conditions on a swampy terrain. A 35-tonne crane is unloading dry-cargo ships without mooring, which is unprecedented under such circumstances.
The Navy flag was hoisted at the Pacific Fleet base on the Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean on August 20 by the crew of the Marshal Gelovani research ship on a hydrographic mission.
"Symbolically, the flag which attributed the island to the Soviet Union was raised 90 years ago, on August 20, 2014. Since then the Wrangel Island has been regarded as a Russian territory," Martov said.