Terrible Russian brought up copper and coating of lamina for incense boat (8)

'incense boat' is the definition.
(navicula can mean a boat-shaped incense holder)

'terrible russian brought up copper and coating of lamina' is the wordplay.
'terrible russian' becomes 'Ivan' (Ivan the Terrible).
'brought up' is a reversal indicator (in a down clue, letters go up).
'copper' becomes 'cu' (chemical symbol).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'coating of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (only the letters that coat the word remain).
'lamina' with its middle removed is 'la'.
'ivan' written backwards gives 'navi'.
'navi'+'cu'+'la'='NAVICULA'

'for' acts as a link.