Severny Gorod examined how China’s state media — from the Xinhua news agency to Global Times — tell their readers the story of developing the Arctic and the Northern Sea ...
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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 ...
Nornickel implements large-scale Clean Norilsk program
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Last year, the Nornickel launched a large-scale ten-year Clean Norilsk program for sanitary cleaning and improvement of industrial areas, which later became part of the Clean Arctic federal project. During the spring and summer, more than a million square meters of land were cleared ...
Northern Maritime Museum sent polar station to Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Arhangelsk mobile exposition - Territory of the brave. A Year at the Polar Station - reproduces the life of winterers in the middle of the last century and is dedicated to the ice drift of the North Pole-1 station. The exhibition at the Museum of ...
Arctic cities could be quite different
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Severny Gorod media company, together with the Norilsk Museum, within the framework of the project Enrichment Factory Lecture Club, invites everyone on April 8 to a meeting with Ekaterina Kalemeneva, candidate of historical sciences, the St. Petersburg National Research University Higher School of ...
Permafrost brought together leading Russian scientists in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The second scientific and technical conference Experience and Prospects for the Construction of Buildings and Structures on Permafrost Soils at the Polar State University after N.M. Fedorovsky united university science and production. The forum was opened by the report of Zhanna Petuhova, the Research Center ...
Scientists renewed Arctic earthquake epicenters map
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists have processed archival data and calculated the locations of the earthquakes that occurred in the Arctic from the beginning of seismic observations from 1904 to 1919. The updated data turned out to be relevant for the modern assessment of seismic hazard in the ...
Associate professor from Benin lectures in Dudinka
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Moscow State University Geology Faculty’s associate professor Aniset Gabriel Kochofa (Benin Republic Extraordinary Ambassador to Russia and CIS countries) came to Taimyr to participate in the Arctic Challenge grant project of the Taimyr College, which is supported by the Our Norilsk endowment fund. The project ...
Russia suggests Arctic digital Red Book creating
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Red Book of the Arctic should be in the format of a database. Such an initiative was announced at a meeting on the Arctic and biodiversity conservation of the Federal Supervisory Natural Resources Management Service’s (Rosprirodnadzor) Scientific and Technical Council at the Project ...
Scientific ice platform to start first voyage in September
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The North Pole self-propelled ice platform is able to be in autonomous navigation for about two years. This is where the importance of the project lies: the vessel will provide long-term access for scientific teams to the Central Arctic, which is still an underexplored ...