Arctic
New environmental problem appears in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Microplastics are already found in everything – food, water, even alcohol. Humans are made up of almost one-tenth of one percent microplastic particles. Scientists say that the coming decades will be humanity's constant struggle to reduce microplastics in the environment. It will be especially ...
Ice drift in Dudinka expected on June 2
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The chief specialist of the Nornickel company’s center for supervision of hydraulic structures’ hydraulic engineering laboratory Igor Suhov, spoke about the flood situation development. “The situation with ice movement this year repeats the year before last. The difference in edge advancement is only about twenty ...
Food storage facilities to be created in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Russia plans to create food bases to supply residents of the Arctic regions. The issues of developing products enriched with useful substances and preserving them in permafrost were discussed at a conference dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first laying of modern ...
Russia developed special coating for aircraft engines in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Engineers of the NTI competence center Digital Materials Science on the basis of MSTU named after N.E. Bauman created an impact-resistant and anti-icing coating for turbojet engines. Its erosion resistance is at least twice as high as that of foreign analogues. According to the ...
Solid waste is important topic for Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The program of the working visit of the Ecology, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Committee’s first deputy chairman includes a trip to Dudinka, where, along with other issues, Vladimir Burmatov will discuss the construction of landfills for solid waste disposal. “The topic is a sore ...
North-2024 expedition starts working on Severnaya Zemlya
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The North-2024 polar expedition’s first flight arrived at the airfield of the research station Ice base Cape Baranov on the Bolshevik island of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago on a special flight from Hatanga. It consists of 11 scientists from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute ...
New Russian all-terrain vehicles tested in Taimyr
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The RAS institute’s Clean Arctic - Vostok - 77 expedition has completed winter field research and testing of equipment on the Taimyr section of the route. One of the tasks is to test equipment produced in Russia for the Arctic. The expedition participants test the ...
Eastern Development Ministry proposes to create permafrost law
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. To respond to permafrost degradation in Russia, it is necessary to create a comprehensive law. This was stated by the Eastern Development Ministry’s first deputy head Gadzhimagomed Guseynov. At a meeting of the State Duma Committee for the Development of the Far East and the ...
Northern Fleet pilots set several records in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Russian Armed Forces’ book of records has been replenished with several achievements by the Northern Fleet mixed air corpse’s pilots in the Arctic. In particular, in August 2023, for the first time in history, naval fighter aircraft crews on the Su-33 flew to airfields ...