The trips will run until at least 2018, the company revealed.
Its president Nikolay Saveliev said that the vessel’s owner, Russian state nuclear agency Atomflot, made the decision to extend tourism on the ship this month.
This is due to the earlier-than-planned deployment of a different icebreaker, the Soviet Union.
Poseidon had already announced that following next summer’s departures, the vessel would be used for scientific exploration and transport in hard-to-reach areas of the arctic and the North-east Passage.
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