The Arctic 30 leave a marshaling yard close to St. Petersburg Ladozhskiy Station, bound for the city's detention centres. The Arctic 30 arrived aboard a railway prison wagon and were transferred to prison vans.

The 'Arctic 30' (twenty-eight Greenpeace International activists, as well as a freelance photographer and a freelance videographer) face charges of piracy and hooliganism for a peaceful protest against oil drilling in the Arctic.