At a press conference in Moscow arranged by the state-affiliated news agency TASS and Morflot, the Federal agency on Sea and River Transport under the Ministry of Transportation of Russia, Russia unviled its plan to build the Polar Express subsea cable, a 12,650km subsea cable. At a press conference in Moscow arranged by the state-affiliated news agency TASS and Morflot, the Federal agency on Sea and River Transport under the Ministry of Transportation of Russia, Russia unviled its plan to build the Polar Express subsea cable, a 12,650km subsea cable. At a press conference in Moscow arranged by the state-affiliated news agency TASS and Morflot, the Federal agency on Sea and River Transport under the Ministry of Transportation of Russia, Russia unviled its plan to build the Polar Express subsea cable, a 12,650km subsea cable along Russia's entire. "Polar Express" is a proposed Arctic 12,650 km long submarine communication cable connecting Murmansk and Vladivostok by traversing the Northern Sea Route with planned total capacity from 52 to 104 Tbit/s. The cable was proposed on October 26, 2020, by decree of the President of Russia and the. London — Over 95% percent of the world's internet traffic and voice and communication data flows through a vast network of fiber optic cables laid across the floors of oceans and seas. The new system includes 6 pairs of optical fibers with a capacity of 52–104 Tb/sec. Russia is constructing its own undersea cable link, the “Polar Express” to improve communications and infrastructure in the north of the country and supply a stable internet connection to its remote hydrocarbon-rich areas The work on the undersea fiber optics communication network started this. The cable link, scheduled to be completed in 2026, will cross Russia's long north coast for 12,650 kilometers (7,860 miles) from the village of Teriberka to the easternmost port of Vladivostok. August 10, 2021 A vessel sails along a coast line as it lays undersea fibre optic communications cable.