Arctic
Scientists choose suitable roofing material for Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The temporary research team of the Siberian Federal University, headed by Yury Zaharinsky, a senior researcher at the SFU and the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, reported on the Norilsk roofs study first stage. Krasnoyarsk specialists got acquainted with the roofs of ...
Geological studies to be conducted in Yenisey gulf
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Gazpromneft company received a license for the Ust-Yenisey section in the Kara sea, which connects geological exploration assets on the Gydansk and Taimyr peninsulas. The Ust-Yenisey section is located in the water area of the Yenisey gulf of the Kara sea, its area is ...
Ural atomic icebreaker goes on test
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Project 22220’s second serial and third nuclear icebreaker Ural, which was commissioned by Atomflot, went to the running tests, the Baltic Plant’s press service reports. The nuclear power vessel left the plant’s complementary embankment and began to implement the factory running testing program. The ...
Nornickel made three climate change scenarios
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the IX Ecological Forum in Moscow, the company’s vice president for working with the Nornickel’s investment community, Vladimir Zhukov, spoke about the climate change and the company’s specialized priorities. “We said that there is a global requirement - to reduce carbon emissions. The company ...
Scientists conduct Northern Sea Route ecological monitoring
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Researchers will supplement the Russian Arctic marine areas fauna data and the sea water state on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in the autumn-pre-winter period. The expedition set off on the Sevmorput nuclear-powered lighter carrier from St. Petersburg. According to the goarctic.ru portal, zoologists will ...
Arctic bus passed tests in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A pilot sample of an all-terrain vehicle for the Arctic by the Miass Ural automobile plant, South Ural State University and Bauman Moscow Technical University passed 8.5 thousand kilometers while testing it. Journalists tried it for the first time and shared their impressions, Rossiyskaya Gazeta ...
New illumination installed in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Nine arches 3.5 meters high were installed on the boulevard. It took more than two kilometers of the LED cable to install them. Earlier, at a town planning council meeting, a sketch design of architectural lighting on six apartment buildings at the city entrance from ...
Scientists to assess Arctic gulls’ stress level
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A joint expedition of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute and the Rosneft company to study the ivory gull has ended in the Arctic. This is a rare and protected species included in the Red Book of the Russian Federation and the Red List ...
Douglas got engine torn in plane crash
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In Novosibirsk, the specialists continue to restore the Douglas aircraft, evacuated from the Taimyr tundra by an expedition of the Russian Geographical Society’s regional branch. The restoration work on the future interactive museum exhibit has been held by the Novosibirsk company Heliocopter since December 2021 ...