Tractor Transport in the Soviet Arctic

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Urvantsev, N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1936
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Norilsk; Reno; norilsk; Polar Record; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400034598; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400034598

Mechanical transport was first used by the author of this article at the time of the investigation of the Norilsk mining field (Lat. 69° 20′ N., Long. 88° 8′ E.) in 1925 for the purpose of taking goods from the port of unloading to the village of Dudinsk on the River Yenisei over a distance of 85 km...