An assessment of the condition of the Igarskaia Protoka on the Yenisei in 2018: side-scan sonar imagery interpretations and bathymetry

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
• Main Author: Goncharov, A E
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2020
• Subjects: Igarka; Protoka; Yenisei River; Northern Sea Route
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/822/1/012041; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/822/1/012041/pdf; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/822/1/012041

Abstract For almost eighty years, the town of Igarka on the Yenisei River had been an important timber industry center and seaport on the Northern Sea Route. Since the early 2000s, however, the town and its economy fell into decline resulting in the termination of timber export and, consequently, maritime navigation. In September 2018, a team of researchers from Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, headed by the author of this paper conducted a side-scan survey of the Igarskaia Protoka, which had been the port’s harbor, in order to access the current state of its aquatic environment. This paper describes some preliminary results of this investigation, which is the first study of the underwater environment of this particular body of water.