OREANDA-NEWS. April 10, 2012.  Prior to the meeting, Vladimir Putin spoke with students of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Marine Cadet Corps who participated in last year's trans-Arctic expedition The Path of Orion, sponsored by the Russian Geographical Society. The expedition travelled across all northern seas, including those near Alaska, Canada and Greenland.

Responding to the prime minister's questions, the students said they travelled on an inflatable trimaran and covered some 10,000 km across Arctic seas. The students said the expedition was indeed difficult, but interesting. "Job well done!" Vladimir Putin said.

One of the students presented the prime minister with a report on the expedition as a memento and invited him to visit the Cadet Corps in Ivanovo. Prime Minister Putin said he would do his best to make a visit.