NOME, Alaska (CNN) A Russian tanker carrying fuel arrived in Nome, Alaska, Saturday night with the help of a U-S Coast Guard ice breaker.

The tanker is filled with one-point-three-million gallons of petroleum products.

It is the first-ever attempt to supply fuel to an Arctic Alaska settlement through sea ice.

The cutter had to break through almost 300-miles of ice to lead the tanker to Nome.

Nome has enough fuel to last until March -- but officials say the trip would have been more difficult by then