Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The American military transport board, crashed on Taimyr in 1947, after restoration will become the central exhibit of the future North development park-museum on Molokov Island in Krasnoyarsk. The S-47 Douglas aircraft, aka Tyurikov's Board, was evacuated from the Taimyr tundra to Krasnoyarsk in 2016–2017 ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Russian Geographical Society confirmed that the icebreaker Vaigach (sank in 1918) is found in the Kara sea. The icebreaker Vaigach was laid down in St. Petersburg in 1907 at the Nevskii shipyard and launched in 1908. It entered service in 1909. And in 1913, ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The event operator was the Roscongress Foundation. The organizers are the Ministry of Transport together with the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia). The seminar was attended by the transport authorities and the Arctic Council member countries organizations, the Arctic Council Working Group on Sustainable ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Strong winds, blizzards and snowfalls are common everyday life for residents of polar Norilsk. The ‘black blizzard’ word combination entered the lexicon of the Norilsk people in 1957, and every Norilsk schoolchild knows what a due-to-weather day off is. In just two months of ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. An ice crossing was opened on Taimyr near the village of Dikson - so far the first one in the region in 2021. Because of the weather, the ice on the rivers has not yet matured, because persistent frosts have recently come even to ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Transport infrastructure is a key component of the socio-economic development of any territory and state, since the goods produced should be delivered to the consumer, as well as the consumers themselves need to be transported to their desired destinations. Water transport is actively ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Nornickel will hand over the Taimyr nuclear icebreaker to Atomflot's disposal for a rescue operation to withdraw ships trapped in ice in the eastern part of the Northern Sea Route(NSR). As a reminder, in November, difficult ice conditions led to the blockage of several vessels ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Big Norilsk’s district - Oganer - can become a testing ground for new construction technologies, which will subsequently be used in Arctic settlements around the world. The proposal is being considered within the framework of the International Competition for Architectural and Planning Solutions. ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Gas carrier Boris Davydov on the way from China to Sabetta freed the scientific expeditionary vessel Mikhail Somov, which was frozen on the Northern Sea Route (NSR). This is reported by TASS with reference to a correspondent who is on the expedition. Now, in the ...