Arctic
Ice-resistant platform Severny Polus tested
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Ice-resistant self-propelled platform Severny Polus (Eng.: North Pole) has successfully passed control tests. It will improve the weather forecasts and ice conditions’ quality n the Northern Sea Route The platform’s first flight is planned on September 1. The crew is almost fully formed. The scientists’ ...
Digital building technologies to be used in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A unique for the Arctic zone project is being implemented in Norilsk: four six-story residential buildings will be built using information modeling technologies. The deputy minister of Construction of the Territory Elena Zvonareva told about this at the All-Russian forum Smart City. The houses will ...
Polar bear came in Dikson for help
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A polar bear in whose mouth a can of condensed milk was stuck came to the Dixon village inhabitants for help. The village head, Nikolay Burak, said that the locals tried to get the jar, but failed. The Rosprirodnadzor (the Russian federal nature preserving service) ...
Access to soft loans increased for investors in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Entrepreneurs implementing investment projects in the Far East and the Russian Arctic zone will be easier to obtain concessional financing. The corresponding resolution was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. “We are talking about the exclusion of requirements for the total investment and the minimum ...
Scientists to conduct unique research on Northern Sea Route
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists from the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISEA SB RAS) will collect material to assess the seabirds and mammals’ biological diversity and monitor their population along the Northern Sea Route (NSR). ...
Russian software to be developed for Northern Sea Route
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Greenatom together with Sitronics Group will create software systems for the Northern Sea Route. The Greenatom’s press service reports that this software systems ensure the operation of digital navigation management services, navigation safety, navigational, hydrographic, hydrometeorological, environmental and ice monitoring,. Sitronics Group software systems will ...
New safety measures developed for ships in polar waters
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has developed new security measures for ships in the Arctic and Antarctic waters. The requirements also apply to the fishing fleet. From 21 to 30 June, the ninth session of the IMO Subcommittee on Navigation, Communications, Search and Rescue (NCSR9) ...
Nornickel to help build ethnic site in Hatanga Bay
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. An ethnic site with a chum, a stage, flagpoles, street stalls and a children's playground will appear in the Syndassko village, a rural settlement of Hatanga. It will be erected as the Min Doiduum (My Homeland) project’s part, which won the World of Taimyr ...
Ecologists explore nature near hydrocarbon deposits in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Russian geographers and ecologists will explore nature in the hydrocarbon deposits’ areas in the Barents, Kara and Okhotsk Seas. Scientists will take more than a thousand water and bottom sediments samples, check the air conditions and assess the conditions in which local animals live. The ...