Arctic
Putorana Plateau project got competition final
The final of the Agency for Social Initiatives on creation of tourist and recreational clusters’ competition has ended in Moscow. The competition was supported by the Ministry of Russian Far East Development, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Federal ...
SFU started recruiting for International Northern School
The Siberian Federal University (SFU) has begun accepting documents for admission to the International Northern School (northern workers' faculty - rabfac) of the North and Arctic Institute for the 2020/21 academic year. "The school will prepare northerners, including representatives of the indigenous peoples, for admission to ...
Polar bears number stabilizes in Arctic
The number of polar bears in the Central Arctic has reached a stable level. Scientists don't expect it to rise or fall. This was reported by TASS with reference to the director of the Central Siberian Nature Reserve Pavel Kochkarev. “The bear is in such a ...
How Siberian rivers affect Arctic climate
Russian oceanologists have studied how the so-called plumes spread - this is desalinated water that arises in the Arctic seas due to the mixing of river and salty sea water. This was reported by the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology’s press office. The Ob, Yenisey ...
SFU scientists examined Norilsk-Alykel highway
The Wind Road project involves the creation of a wind structures system to be placed on the Norilsk-Alykel highway. Employees of five institutes of the Siberian Federal University (ecology and geography, engineering and construction, oil and gas, mining, geology and geotechnology, physics and radio electronics) ...
Maria Pronchishcheva bay to be renamed
It included the representatives of the Norilsk Development Agency (NDA), the administration of Taimyr, the researchers from the Museum of Norilsk and the Taimyr Nature Reserves, as well as historians, WWF experts, RussiaDiscovery and Panarctic Star tour operators. The Maria Pronchishcheva bay is located in the ...
Hottest summer came to Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Summer 2020 in the Northern hemisphere was the hottest in the history of meteorological observations. This was reported to TASS by the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, Roman Vilfand, referring to the results of the express analysis of Roshydromet. “The highest anomalies ...
New strait discovered in Arctic
Researchers from the Russian Geographical Society and the Northern Fleet have completed the tour of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago aboard the MB-12 sea tug. The scientists found that a small island separated from the Zherdi peninsula and a new strait was formed. Geographic objects were ...
SFU to help Norilsk fight snow drifts
The scientists of SFU have begun to carry out research and development work to reduce snow drifts of the Norilsk-Alykel highway. The corresponding agreement between the municipality and the leading Siberian university was signed in July. The Wind Road project involves the creation of a wind ...