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- Russia has launched the first tourist train to Arctic region.The train will travel through Russia’s Arctic region on to Norway. It set off from St. Petersburg station with passengers aboard.
- The train has been named as Zarengold.It has two restaurant cars and the whole trip is expected to take 11 days and will allow passengers to discover areas difficult to access by other means.
- The tourists came from seven countries including the US, Germany, Norway and Russia.
- Russia hopes to become the top economic and military power in the Arctic region foreseeing new trading routes as global warming breaks up glaciers.
- According to the U.S Geological Survey,Arctic region holds oil and gas reserves equivalent to 412 billion barrels of oil and about 22% of the world’s undiscovered oil and gas.



