Physical characteristics of the Caspian Sea basin determine specific features for commercial shipping. Currently, merchant marine fleets in the Caspian Sea are represented by different types of vessels such as bulk carriers, oil tankers, barges, road and rail ferries. The majority of ships operating in the Caspian Sea is mixed river-sea navigation vessels, which has relatively small tonnage – 3-5 thousand tons. However, low-tonnage ships could not provide the appropriate level of oil cargo transportation, which is the most profitable part of the commercial shipment in the Caspian Sea.
Lydiya Parkhomchik (nee Timofeyenko) was born on February 9, 1984 in Zelenodolsk city, located at the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia). Since 1986 she became resident of the Republic of Kazakhstan. She graduated the high school in 2001 and at the same year she admitted to Abylai khan Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages. She graduated from International Relations Department with specialization of analyst with knowledge of a foreign language in 2006 and after that started to work as a lecturer at the Chair of International Relations of KazUIR & WL.