Some plant owners are lobbying the government to let them bring in Russian workers from Murmansk.
Their ships sailed from Loch Ewe in the north west Highlands to re-supply the Soviet ports of Murmansk and Archangel.
More than 3, 000 seamen died in Operation Dervish, which saw supplies delivered to the Soviet ports of Murmansk and Archangel.
Bound for Murmansk, an express was hurrying through from the south.
Jonathan Dimbleby, an accomplished British broadcaster, was by his frank admission in a state of considerable emotional turmoil when he travelled from the Arctic city of Murmansk to Vladivostok.
In June 2011, Novatek, Russia's biggest non-state gas company, sent 60, 000 tons of gas condensate from Murmansk to the Chinese port of Ningbo aboard the MV Perseverance on a three-week voyage.
For example, Murmansk to China's Ningbo port near Shanghai is 13, 000 km via the NSR, compared with 22, 000 km via the Mediterranean Sea, Suez Canal, Indian Ocean and Strait of Malacca.
The mission to keep supply lines to the Soviet ports of Murmansk and Archangel open was reportedly described as the "worst journey in the world" by former Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Already, most of the shipments through Murmansk's Barents Sea port to the north or Kandalaksha's White Sea port to the south is made up of metals and minerals, and the bulk is set to grow.
Just a week earlier the government reversed its position on pipeline ownership, giving him and his peers a provisional green light to build a 2m-barrel-a-day link from the oilfields of Western Siberia to the northern port of Murmansk.
Interestingly, most of the sides of the buildings that face large streets in Moscow and in Murmansk (the city where I spent all of my Russian life) are usually painted, but the sides that face small streets have not been painted in generations.
The week of programming kicks off with a special travelogue documentary Eye on Russia: Moving Forward where CNN's Moscow-based Senior International Correspondent Matthew Chance rides the train from the Arctic north of Murmansk down to the southern climes of Sochi by way of St Petersburg and Moscow, to offer a diverse range of reports.
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