To the question about the Northern Sea Route in the history of the Polar expedition of V. Rusanov
The article describes the stages of formation and development of the ideas of the famous polar explorer, geologist V. A. Rusanov, which formed the basis of the plans of his last expedition in 1912. Based on Russian Arctic expeditions in 1909−1915 period (including the 1<sup>st</sup> and 2<sup>nd</sup> New Zemlians), and modern data on the Arctic navigation and weather conditions of the Kara Sea, the author puts forward and often justified the route cutter version ‛Hercules' to the shores of the Taimyr autumn of 1912, winter 1912−1913 and the return trip to navigation in 1913