And about. Director of Atomflot Irlitz named the hardest month for ice navigation

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The most difficult month for navigation on ice is May, Leonid Irlitsa, Acting General Manager of FSUE Atomflot, told socialbites.ca. According to him, the largest ice field is observed in May.

“[К маю] Ice is already frozen to a certain thickness. If the ice that has not melted since the summer remains frozen in the fall, the cold will accumulate around the poles and one ice floe grows with the other,” explained Irlitsa.

During this period, bumps begin to form under wind, current and cold. [ледяные глыбы, образовавшаяся при сжатии льдов. — «Газета.Ru»]which is difficult to overcome, especially if they are going to the “fields”.

“Two-metre ice floes pile on top of each other, growing to five or seven metres, sometimes even ten metres. Such bumps rise, freeze with each other. You look: just a fence of ice, a fence. you start knocking on the door [ледоколом]and you bounce like a concrete ball. These places are the scariest places for navigation,” he said. Director of Atomflot.

Is there ice that even an icebreaker can’t handle, and how will work be done to ensure year-round navigation along the Northern Sea Route? in an interview Leonid Irlitsa “Newspaper.Ru”.

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