The Northern Sea Route in the context of new geopolitical challenges

Recent changes in the geopolitical situation have led to corresponding changes in functions and directions. prospects for the development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). The reduction of the transit function in the Western European direction increases the opportunities for the development of domestic transportation, the high socio-economic importance of which is determined regardless of the state of international transit. The main function of the NSR is to unite the most important waterways of the Russian Federation into a single transport and logistics system and gradually switch part of transit water transport to inland waterways.