High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Steamer Pravda was a Soviet merchant freighter of about 3,100 tonnes displacement, which was active in the Soviet Arctic during the 1930s. This ship had been normally used for carrying timber. It was named after Soviet newspaper Pravda. In 1933, the newly formed Glavsevmorput' (Chief Administration of the Northern Sea Route) sent the Pravda, under Captain Kh. A. Belitskiy, to Nordvik on the first oil exploration expedition to Northern Siberia. This venture was led by N.N. Urvantsev who travelled on the Pravda along with his wife, Dr. Yelizaveta Ivanovna who was in charge of medical care. Pravda's cargo consisted of 2,430 tonnes of equipment and supplies for this important expedition, including four experimental NATI-2 half-track vehicles built by the Nauchnyy Avtotraktornyy Institut in Moscow. These were the first tracked vehicles to be used in the Russian Arctic in history. They would be used to haul the drill, buildings and supplies, from the landing site to the drilling site. Apart from the detachable drill rig and a fully-equipped drilling camp, Pravda also carried the rails, ties and rolling stock for a narrow-gauge railway.

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