Memorable dates

1870	Murmansk fleet started its activity. Belomorsk-Murmansk Regular Shipping Line Partnership was established.
September 22, 1939	Murmansk State Sea Dry-cargo and Passenger Shipping Company of Narcommorflot (People’s Commissariat of Water Transport) was organized.
June 25, 1953	Murmansk State Shipping Company, Arkhangelsk Arctic Shipping Company and Murmansk Sea Office of the Northern Sea Route were combined into Murmansk State Arctic Shipping Company (MSASC).
March 4, 1954	The national flag of the USSR was hoisted on diesel-electric ship "Lena". It was the first carrier produced for arctic endurance cruise.
December 25, 1954	The national flag of the USSR was hoisted on icebreaker "Kapitan Belousov". It was the first icebreaker equipped with a diesel-electrical power plant.
January 5, 1956	Diesel-electric ship "Ob" was the first Soviet research ship that reached Antarctica.
December 3, 1959	The nuclear icebreaker "Lenin" was launched.
October– November 1961	The nuclear icebreaker "Lenin" sailed to central Arctic to organize the floating station "North Pole - 10". It was the first winter voyage.
January 27, 1964	MSASC was reorganized into Murmansk Department of Arctic and Icebreaker Fleet of Northern Shipping Company.
January 1, 1966	For the first time in history the Soviet diesel-electric ship "Indigirka" was awarded the prize of the port Montreal. The captain of the vessel was A.F. Pinezhaninov.
January 1, 1967	Department of Arctic and Icebreaker Fleet were expelled from Northern Shipping Company. Murmansk Shipping Company was established.
July- September 1967	The first transit sailing of m/v "Novovoronezh" via the Northern Sea Route (Hamburg – Japan – Murmansk).
1969	A regular line Murmansk – Dudinka – Murmansk for Norilsk Combine's cargo transportation was launched.
April- July 1973	An outstanding drift of diesel-electric ship "Ob" that was nipped by the Antarctica ice.
December 20, 1974	M/V "Mariya Yermolova", the leading cargo passenger carrier, was launched.
March, 1975	A regular line Murmansk – Rostock for apatite transportation was launched.
April 25, 1975	The national flag of the USSR was hoisted on nuclear icebreaker "Arktika"
February 13, 1976	Murmansk Shipping Company was awarded an Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
August 17, 1977	The nuclear icebreaker "Arktika" is the first surface vessel that reached the North Pole.
October 24, 1977	The national flag of the USSR was hoisted on "Dmitriy Donskoy", the leading arctic bulk-container carrier.
1978	The start of year-round navigation in Arctic – Murmansk – Dudinka – Murmansk.
May – July 1978	The first high-latitude arctic voyage of the nuclear icebreaker "Sibir" which escorted the carrier "Kapitan Myshevskiy" from Murmansk to Magadan.
November 13, 1982	The national flag of the USSR was hoisted on "Norilsk", the leading multipurpose icebreaking carrier.
May 8 – June 19 1987	Multipurpose, high-latitude arctic voyage of the nuclear icebreaker "Sibir" to the North Pole.
August 1990	The first commercial voyage of the nuclear icebreaker "Rossiya" to the North Pole with tourists on board. Such voyages have become regular and now they are carried out by nuclear icebreakers "Yamal" and "Sovetskiy Soyuz".
January 15, 1993	Reorganization of the business legal structure of the shipping company. JSC "Murmansk Shipping Company" was founded.
November 1998	JSC JSC 'LUKOIL Arctic Tanker', a subsidiary of oil company "LUKoil", bought controlling interest of the Company.
September 16, 1999	The Company was the first among the Russian shipping companies to obtain the "Certificate of Quality Management System Conformity" confirming the international level of its activity.
December 1999	MSCO purchased the tanker "Kotlas". It was the beginning of a new kind of activity – oil transportation.
August 2000	The first oil loading at the offshore Varandey Terminal in the Pechora Sea on tanker "Volgograd" was done. A new marine transportation route for exports of crude from Timan-Pechora oil-and-gas - beating province was launched.
March 26, 2002	An experiment of unconventional usage of the nuclear icebreaker as a offshore nuclear power plant was successfully performed. Electricity generated by the nuclear icebreaker "Sovetskiy Soyuz" was used by shore-based subdivision.
August 2002	Ice-strengthened class tankers "Alexander Sledzyuk" and "Georgiy Kononovich" entered the fleet.
September 2002	High-duty Arctic Submerged Loading Terminal started operating on Varandey.
October 2002 – May 2003	Export crude oil transportation in the Kola Bay started successfully. Oil Loading Terminal was constructed with a capacity of 5.4 million tons of hydrocarbon raw material per year.
July 4, 2003	Murmansk Shipping Company purchased the icebreaker "Vladimir Ignatyuk".
August 2003	Overhaul-period renewal of the nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika up to 175 000 hours and 32 years of operation was successfully finished.
July - September 2003	The company's fleet was increased by three ice-strengthened class tankers "Varzuga", "Indiga" and "Khatanga".
June 2005	Murmansk Shipping Company was awarded an order "Glory of Russia", the highest Russian award of public acknowledgement.
August 2005	The nuclear icebreaker "Arktika" passed the millionth mile for the first time since she has been launched.
October 2005	The national flag of the RF was hoisted on the tanker "Nataly", her deadweight is over 147,000 tons. There were no vessels of such deadweight, sailing under the flag of the RF, before this tanker has been purchased by Murmansk Shipping Company.
August 2006	The national flag of the RF was hoisted on the mv "Grumant", the leading ice-class bulker.
March 2007	The national flag of the RF was hoisted on the nuclear icebreaker "50 let Pobedy". The icebreaker was transferred to asset management of Murmansk Shipping Company .
August 2007	Renewal of the fleet. The national flag of the RF was hoisted on the mv "Pomorye", the second ice-class bulker, "Grumant" type. The national flag of the RF was hoisted on the tanker "Nadezhda", the second supertanker, "Nataly" type.
August 17, 2007	30 anniversary since the nuclear icebreaker "Arktika" has reached the North Pole
August 20, 2008	Renewal of the fleet. The national flag of the RF was hoisted on the mv "Zapolyarye", the third ice-class bulker, "Grumant" type.