This is Mr Sokolov's personal choice, of course.
His paternal grandfather Pavel Maximovich Sokolov was a Russian Orthodox priest from the Tver region.
Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov confirmed there were no survivors
and said DNA tests would be needed to identify the dead.
Boris Sokolov is designed to cope with the extreme cold of the Arctic,
where the temperature can fall below minus 50 degrees.
In the coming days, the Boris Sokolov will join Dynacom Tankers Management's fleet
and begin its voyage from China to the Arctic along the Northern Sea Route.
Egyptian Prime Minister Sharif Ismail said experts had confirmed that the militants could not down a plane at the 30,000
feet while Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said the claim“cannot be considered accurate”.
Soviet scientist Sokolov back in the late fortiesyears of the last century
developed a theoretical description of the device intended for visualization of opaque objects- the"ultrasonic" microscope. Based on these studies, in the mid-1970s specialists from Stanford University created a prototype of a scanning acoustic microscope.