Arctic
Taimyr and ETU LETI sign cooperation agreement
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. From June 8 to 10 the Taimyr’s head Evgeny Vershinin takes part in the Sixth international Arctic summit The Arctic: Prospects, Innovations and Region’s Development. The event is held in St. Petersburg and timed to coincide with the period of Russia’s chairmanship of the Arctic ...
Dikson and Tiksi seaports to be reconstructed
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The dual-use seaports of Tiksi and Dikson on the Northern Sea Route will be reconstructed. This was stated by the commander of the Northern Fleet, admiral Alexander Moiseyev. “As part of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the Arctic and the implementation of ...
Russian Arctic museums to create mobile project
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. 20 Russian Arctic museums create a mobile exhibition project that travels to the Russian northern museums. Thanks to the Nornickel company’s help one of these exhibitions has already been delivered to Norilsk. The exposition is The Territory of the Brave: a Year at the ...
Fedor Konyuhov’s unique flight started
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Fedor Konyukhov’s unique transcontinental flight in the Clean Arctic federal project’s support has started in Arhangelsk on the World Environment Day. Let us remind that the Clean Arctic project’s ambassador and the international master of sports pilot Igor Potapkin plan to make a multi-stage flight ...
Global observation base tracks carbon fluxes in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. An international team of scientists, having studied carbon fluxes in the Arctic ecosystems, created a global database ABCflux. It is based on 6000 field works and will help to estimate and predict the carbon balance together with climate change. The study is published in ...
Scientists study Arctic impact on human body
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This year, members of the of the Arctic floating university expedition will make two voyages to high latitudes - to Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land. On the first voyage, on June 24, 50 people will go, including students, graduate students and scientists. According to ...
Indigenous peoples to study global warming
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This year, North Peoples Institute will be opened on the basis of Tomsk State University (TSU). One of its work areas will be the global warming study. North indigenous peoples representatives will take part in the research. “Scientists from various fields are working on ...
Taimyr tundra changes color to brown
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Since the end of the 90s of the last century, the Arctic tundra has begun changing into green color. Due to warming, shrubs and grasses are spreading to higher latitudes. A riot of greening can be observed in Alaska and Chukotka, but the landscapes of ...
Siberian Explorer to conquer Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The unique river-sea class vessel Siberian Explorer was built at the shipyard in Saratov on the individual order of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS). Now it is moving to Krasnoyarsk for sea trials, and its further fate will be connected with the Russian Geographical Society’s ...