The Northern Sea Route represents the standard route by sea connecting European and Far Eastern parts of our country. Shipping by sea is among the most efficient cargo transportation methods, for this reason, the use of the Northern Sea Route makes it possible to transfer the most valuable cargo in sufficient scale and in accordance with necessary deadlines. The first attempts to open the new trade route by sea were made at the beginning of the 16th century. Dmitry Gerasimov – a famous diplomat gave theoretical justification of feasibility of using the Northern Sea Route. Several decades later, numerous expeditions followed and by the end of the 19th century the entire route was covered with wintering off the coast of Chukotka for the first time. In the 30`s of the XX century passing along this most important sea transport corridor just once revived the economy of far-away regions of our state allowing to connect the farthest from one another ports of Murmansk and Vladivostok. The Gulf Stream that brings warm waters to the Arctic Ocean and preventing from forming the giant ice dam in the Kola Peninsula region helps to make provision for Arctic region’s navigableness.