History of the Northern Sea Route in the contemporary international scientific edition

The paper discovers the contents of the international scientific edition, which was published in 2022 and devoted to the more than a thousand-year history of research, exploration and development of the Northeast Passage and Northern Sea Route. The author describes how this international scientific project was born over three decades of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The paper characterizes the structure of this collective monograph, the authors of which are scientists from four European countries. The book contains a bibliography of research on this topic, which consists of 26 pages of text and approximately 900 titles of works in different languages. The article characterizes the most significant milestones in the exploration and development of the Northeast Passage and the Northern Sea Route, which is embodied in seven chapters of the reviewed monograph: 1) 9^th - mid-16^th centuries; 2) mid-16^th - mid-18^th centuries; 3) mid-19^th centuries; 4) mid-19^th century – 1917; 5) 1917 – 1991; 6) the end of 20^th century – beginning of 2020s; 7) historical experience, modernity and prospects of the Northern Sea Route development. The author briefly characterizes the content of each of these parts and reveals the significance of this international scientific edition.