The
ship lowered the ramp into the surf to let the troops disembark. Prior
to that, the area of water had been surveyed by the Vizir hydrographic
survey vessel. After the landing, the infantrymen trained to conduct
raids and then staged an island and arctic zone defense exercise.
"About 100 troops on 11 armored vehicles - BTR-82A armored
personnel carriers, MT-LBV tracked carriers, TTM amphibious swamp buggies/snowmobiles
and KamAZ and Ural high-mobility trucks - have participated in the amphibious
landing," the fleet’s press office added.
A similar scheduled exercise was conducted on Alexandra Land of the
Franz Josef Land archipelago in late September.
For the first time, the Arctic brigade of the Northern Fleet started
training to conduct raids in unfamiliar terrain in the Arctic last year.
An exercise in defending high-value industrial installations on the
Taimyr Peninsula and providing security for the New Siberian Islands
and Novaya Zemlya took place as part of the Arctic cruise of the fleet’s
task force made up of combatants and support vessels at the time.
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