The Northern Sea Route is a shipping route about 5,600 kilometres long, defined by Russian legislation as running from the entrances to the Novaya Zemlya straits in the west, along the Russian Arctic coast above Siberia through the Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea, and Chukchi Sea, to Cape Zhelaniya on the Bering Strait, at parallel 66 ° N and meridian of 168 ° 58′37 ″ W.The entire route lies in Arctic waters and within Russia's exclusive economic zone, and is included in what has been called the Northeast Passage, analogous to Canada's Northwest Passage. Wikipedia