Northern Sea Route to see religious procession in 2013
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at a meeting with the head of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area Dmitry Kobylkin supported the idea of the regional authorities to carry out a religious procession along the Northern Sea Route, press center of the regional governor reports.
“The Northern Sea Route opens new opportunities not only for Yamal but for entire Russia as well. Our task is to transform the seaport Sabetta being currently built in the Area into a multifunctional hub,” Dmitry Kobylkin noted during the meeting. He underlined that in the future Yamal towns and districts linked in the framework of the Northern Latitudinal Railway will be also connected with Sabetta port thus providing the way from the southern regions of the Ural Federal District, Siberia, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan towards the Northern Sea Route.
