Arctic

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On Saturday, November 21, bad weather happened in Norilsk: blizzard was raging, the thermometers showed an abnormal temperature for November in the Arctic - plus 1. Wind gusts exceeded 20 m/s. 13 car accidents were registered in two days. Flights to ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A new block-modular terminal has opened at Dikson airport. The project cost was 60 million rubles. Last year, the Krasnoyarye Airports company, which manages the airport on Dikson island, ordered a rapidly erected prefabricated structure for the Arctic air hub. In ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Bioplastic can be used in sub-arctic latitudes without harm to the environment, as it is capable of degradation thanks to soil bacteria. The ability of bioplastics to degrade in fragile ecosystems such as the Arctic will reduce environmental damage. This was ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Reduction in the area of ​​Arctic sea ice in October will lead to cooling and abnormally cold winters in Siberia and European Russia in December and January. Russian scientists found that observing ice in the Arctic can predict the onset of ...

The launch of the first Arktika-M spacecraft for environmental monitoring in the Arctic is scheduled for February 2021. “The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Fregat upper stage and the first Arktika-M satellite from the Baikonur cosmodrome is scheduled for February 28”, a source ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. #THIS IS TAIMYR. The Khatanga sea trade port, where the necessary equipment is unloaded and loaded during the northern delivery to the villages of Taimyr, is located on the right bank of the Khatanga river. When the river breaks open in the spring ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Experts of the Computer Modeling and Engineering in the Field of Energy and Power Engineering engineering center (Kazan) have developed an energy storage unit with a capacity of up to 300 kilowatts. The unit is designed for operation in the ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Feeling sleepy, fatigue is growing, nerves fail. The polar night is coming to the Arctic. It lasts from November to January, when the sun begins to rise slightly over the horizon. November is the period of entering the polar night ...

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The crew of the icebreaker belonging to the Polar Transport Branch (part of the Norilsk Nickel structure) helped rescue a convoy of seven ships of the Siberia-RechTrans transport company, trapped in the Yenisey river ice in the Igarka area. As a ...