Two Sputnik correspondents recently visited Belozersk, one of the most ancient Russian towns located on the shore of the Beloye Lake in the Vologda Region

An operational team of the Russian Federal Agency for Fishery decided to continue searches for the bodies of sailors who went missing after the Onega trawler sunk in the Barents Sea, the country's agency of sea and river transport said on Thursday

Most sailors who went missing after Russia's Onega ship sunk in the Barents sea on Monday may still be inside the vessel that is approximately at a depth of 426 feet, a spokesman of the Emergencies Ministry told Sputnik on Tuesday

Russia's fish trawler Onega that sank in the Barents Sea was fully operational when leaving port, all the necessary procedures were implemented, the All-Russian Association of Fisheries Enterprises, Entrepreneurs and Exporters said on Monday, citing the ship owner

All the 17 missing crew members of Russia's Onega vessel that sank in the Barents Sea are believed to be dead, while the condition of the two saved people is satisfactory, a spokesman for emergency services told Sputnik on Monday