OREANDA-NEWS. On the 20th of February, 2013, a delegation of the Royal Navy of the Great Britain led by Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, paid a social visit to Murmansk Region.

The guests took a tour of several nuclear facilities in the region: the missile cruiser Petr Veliky, the nuclear submarine Pantera and nuclear icebreaker-museum Lenin, which hosts the Atomic Energy Information Center of Murmansk.

During the icebreaker Lenin visit, Admiral Mark Stanhope had a meeting with Atomflot Director General Vyacheslav Ruksha and Deputy Director General Mustafa Kashka. They discussed issues of the international cooperation and interaction of the fleets.

The guests also visited the Atomic Energy Information Center in Murmansk and the exhibition “The Kola Atom” where the Director General of Atomflot familiarized the British with the nuclear industry enterprises, radiation situation in Kola Peninsula, and presented on nuclear icebreaker fleet’s operations in the Arctic.