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Crabbing Pioneers
Read moreAn Arctic Zone resident in Murmansk is building a fleet for harvesting Kamchatka crabs
Arctic mining is not limited to oil and gas
Coal mining enterprises also operate in the Arctic Zone.
One of those is currently developing the deposits in Chukotka. Over the past ten years, coal production in Russia has grown by over 30 per cent to reach 440 mln tons, and now the country is the third-largest producer of coal in the world.
An Arctic Zone resident in Murmansk is building a fleet for harvesting Kamchatka crabs
Prirazlomnoye is the first and only field on the Russian Arctic shelf where oil is extracted using an offshore ice-resistant fixed platform.