“Yandex” can launch a taxi in the Norwegian Svalbard

Service “Yandex.Taxi offered to start work on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. About this “RIA Novosti” told head of the Arktikugol trust Ildar Neverov during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Arktikugol approached the company with ideas to launch a service in the archipelago, the head of the trust wrote a letter to the head of Yandex. According to Neverov, Yandex will not be required to pay any costs, since the settlements of the Russian presence have the necessary snowmobiles and special equipment.

“This is an image story, they don’t need any costs, just connect us to their system, we would do everything ourselves and transport people on all-terrain vehicles or snowmobiles,” Neverov said.

In addition, Neverov toldthat in August-September a charter flight from Russia can be launched to the archipelago, work is already underway.

Artikugol is the parent Russian organization in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, covering an area of ​​61,022 sq. km. The company is engaged in coal mining. In the archipelago, the trust owns an area of ​​251 sq. m, on which the operating mine “Barentsburg” is located. In 1920, the international legal status of Svalbard was determined and Norway’s sovereignty over the archipelago was recognized.