The Arctic and the Northeast Passage in History, Fiction, Culture and Political Science

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Main Authors: Alekhina, N V, Andrianova, M D, Stepantseva, O A, Uspenskaya, A V
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Northeast Passage
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/434/1/012006; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/434/1/012006/pdf; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/434/1/012006

Abstract The article traces the thousand-year history of the development and settlement of the Arctic, noted the most important research and expedition. Territorial disputes and attempts to redraw Arctic borders begin to intensify with the onset of the 20 th Century. The issue of the territorial partition of the Arctic in the late 20 th and the early 21 st century is particularly acute, as the possession of Arctic territories gives control over the Northeast Passage and a superior right to extract minerals, a large the number of which is concentrated in the Arctic shelf. Besides, it is here that almost half of the world’s fish products are produced. The article also examines the understanding of the Arctic as an ancestral Russian territory in Russian literature, which in many ways forms mass consciousness.