Sponsors.

Foreign companies:

• Nera Telecommunication – devices for satellite phone communication;
• Trimble navigation – navigation devices;
• Hewlett Packard – computers;
• Field Works, Incorporated under promotion of MNPCP "Trial" Inc. – a computer for extreme conditions;
• Motorola – radio equipment;
• Intеrnationаl Раint – paint;
• 3М – clothes, insulating materials;
• McDonalds – organisation of press-conferences; meals at the ports of destination;
• Yankee Polish – chemistry for everyday.

Russian enterprises and companies:

• State Enterprise "Morsvyazsputnik" – telephone net;
• State Hydrographic Enterprise, St. Petersburg – electronic navigation charts of the North-East Passage;
• Transas Marine, St. Petersburg – electronic navigation charts;
• "Aeroflot – Russian International airlines", Joint-stock Co. – air tickets;
• "BASK", scientific-producer`s Co. – clothes;
• "Kanat", Joint-stock Co., Kolomna – ropes and cables;
• "Savma", Joint-stock Co., Kimry – diesel generator;
• "Volzhskie Motory", Joint-stock Co., Ulyanovsk – boat engines;
• "UZEMIK", Joint-Stock Co., Ufa – rescue equipment;
• Yaroslavsky Radio Plant, Joint-Stock Co. – an emergency buoy;
• Podolsky battery plant – accumulators;
• VOSK, Tver – tackle, rig;
• "Arsenal-service", Tver – weapons;
• "Novaplan" – technical support of satellite communication means.

Information sponsors:

• Newspaper "Moskovskaya pravda";
• Morning channel TVC;
• "Radio of Russia";
• "Sozvesdye" agency, Тver.

The Yacht was built at the Tver carriage-building plant.

The sailing was carried out under support of the Russian NAVY; the Russian Air Force; the Government of Moscow; the Prefecture of the North administrative region of Moscow; the Governments of Tver town, Tverskaya and Kamchatskaya regions.

Also reach:

• 3-nd Circumnavigation of the yacht "Apostol Andrey"
• 2-nd Circumnavigation of the yacht "Apostol Andrey"