Arctic
Ancient ice floe to help predict climate change
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The 567 000-year-old ice core was brought to St. Petersburg by scientists from the 67th Russian Antarctic Expedition. According to the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, the ancient block was raised from a depth of 3453 meters from the lake under the Vostok ...
Taimyr makes Krasnoyarsk region world’s most important oil and gas province
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Governor Alexander Uss took part in the video conference on the development of the Arctic, chaired by the president. The Arctic zone area in our region is more than a million square kilometers. This is 46.3 percent of the entire territory of the region ...
Kremlin discussed Russian Arctic future
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The North should be provided with all goods: food, fuel, medicines, building materials. President Vladimir Putin said that the Arctic territories supply must remain uninterrupted. A special law on northern delivery will be developed to regulate all issues of delivering goods to hard-to-reach territories. In ...
Arctic farm becomes best family business for tourists
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The family company Farmer's Sloboda, founded by an Arctic resident in the small village of Levkovka near Arhangelsk, was included in the top 30 Russian enterprises in April according to the results of the Industrial Tourism Accelerator and won the Best Family Business for ...
By 2024 Arctic to be provided with satellite communications
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Russia Digital Development Ministry plans to launch the federal project Providing Internet Access Through the Development of Satellite Communications entirely at the expense of budget money. But this does not mean that there will be no extrabudgetary funds in the project at all. “The ...
Arctic expedition Sever-2022 sets off for Severnaya Zemlya
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The main research objects of the April expedition from St. Petersburg will be glaciers, numerous rivers and lakes, as well as geomorphological and paleogeographic work, organization of monitoring of permafrost soils. A group of twelve scientists will be based on Bolshevik island, mapped by Norilsk ...
Imported salmon to be replaced with domestic ones
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The main fish imports are Atlantic salmon and trout: they account for about 17 percent of supplies. Among other significant items: frozen shrimp, mackerel, frozen herring. Premium types of fish and seafood are also imported, for example, certain types of tuna, sea bass, lobsters, ...
Fyodor Konyuhov to set world record in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Fyodor Konyuhov will set a new world record - a traveler wants to overcome 500 kilometers in ten hours on a two-seater paraglider. If this succeeds, the polar explorer will beat the result of Polish pilots in non-stop flight - 427 kilometers. As lenta.ru writes ...
Norilsk scientists study permafrost under buildings
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In Norilsk, the work on the permafrost under residential buildings study is proceeding at an active pace. Monitoring will allow scientists to develop measures to preserve the city's high-rise buildings. Soil research is carried out using sensors and thermostabilization tubes. Experts drill a well deeper ...

