Congratulations to all polar explorers of Russia on their professional festive day!
For more than 500 years, our country has been the world's leading Arctic power. Russian explorers and pioneers - from Dmitry Gerasimov and Semyon Chelyuskin to Ivan Papanin and Artur Chilingarov - ensured the exploration and development of the Arctic.
We have built the largest polar cities and the most powerful nuclear icebreakers in the world, established navigation along the Northern Sea Route, and learned to extract minerals necessary for the global economy in the extreme conditions of the Far North.
Today, this work continues. Complex mining projects are being implemented in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, high-tech enterprises and liquefied natural gas plants are being built, modern research stations and floating nuclear power plants are being created.
All this became possible thanks to you, your daily responsible and hard work, love for Russia and your chosen profession.
On this festive day, I want to thank you once again for this and wish you good health, endless enthusiasm, energy and new victories for the benefit of our country!
Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation - Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District
Yu. Trutnev