Most of sheets of the state Geological Map of the Russian Arctic Shelf in scale 1:1000 000 (new edition) were published during the last 6-8 years, and their remaining part is ready for publishing. They integrate, in the GIS Arc-View form, all the available geological-geophysical data, providing, in this way, possibility to appraise the mineral resources with the higher geological certainty and to evaluate the environmental conditions at the new areas at the start of their economic development.
