Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Nuclear and diesel icebreakers ensure year-round accessibility to 16 freezing seaports of the country and the safe movement of ships in their waters. A meeting was held at the Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport (Rosmorrechflot) under the chairmanship of the agency head Andrey ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The volume of northern deliveries in 2024 has been fulfilled by 99 percent, says Gadzimagomed Guseinov, the first deputy minister of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic. “In total, the volume of cargo for 2024 amounted to 3.4 ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The main source of methane emissions in the Northern hemisphere are the Eastern Arctic seas - this is the conclusion reached by Russian scientists. This was reported by Tatyana Polivanova, a junior research fellow at the International Scientific Center for Ecology and Climate Change ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Arctic Floating University has revealed the secret of warm currents in the Arctic Ocean – this unique phenomenon is called Atlantification, and it began at the beginning of the 20th century. As the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper writes with reference to scientists, the North Atlantic ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. During the polar night, the sun does not rise above the horizon for 45 days, from November 30 to January 13. At the 69th parallel, in Norilsk and Dudinka, residents will observe a slight clearing only in the afternoon. In Norilsk, everything – people, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Russian traveler Fedor Konyukhov intends to go on a solo expedition to Smolensk island (Livingston) in Antarctica in December 2025 to study the problem of microplastic pollution. “This island is about twenty kilometers long and six kilometers wide. And there’s no one there. Just a ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 2024, a team of scientists from the Arctic Floating University was the first in Russian and international science to search for giant viruses in high latitudes, exploring the islands of the Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya archipelagos. The researchers collected unique samples on ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Sredne-Nevsky shipyard in St. Petersburg continues to build two passenger ships for the Krasnoyarsk-Dudinka route. The Krasnoyarsk region governor Mikhail Kotyukov, who visited the plant, was told about the progress of the work. “This is an absolutely new product of Russian shipbuilding. Electrical installation ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Russian scientists have developed a frost-resistant biopolymer material to improve the strength of roads in the Arctic, reports Georgy Lazarenko, head of the closed-loop technology competence center of the Advanced Engineering School of Novosibirsk State University (NSU). As the developer noted, temperature changes often cause ...