From left: Captain of the "50 Let Pobedy" icebreaker Valentin Daydyants; Artur Chilingarov, first vice president of the Russian Geographical Society, member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation and corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Marina Kovtun, Governor of the Murmansk Region, are at the ceremony marking the voyage of a nuclear-powered icebreaker carrying the Olympic flame to the North Pole.