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navigation - activity involving the use of vessels on inland waterways for the transportation of cargo, passengers and their luggage, mail, towing of vessels and other floating objects, conducting search, reconnaissance, and mining operations, construction, track, hydraulic, underwater technical, and other similar works, pilotage and icebreaking assistance, rescue operations, carrying out measures to protect water bodies and prevent their pollution and contamination, raising sunken property, conducting control activities, scientific research, educational, sports, cultural, and other purposes;

Source: "Code of Inland Waterway Transport of the Russian Federation" dated 07.03.2001 No. 24-FZ (as amended on 28.07.2012)

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