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 ...
Arctic
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 ...
Royev Ruchey to spend 30 million on polar bears
The Roev Ruchey flora and fauna park is looking for a contractor to decorate the polar bears’ enclosures. The information appeared on the public procurement website. The maximum contract price is not more than 29.73 million rubles. For this money, it is necessary to equip three ...
North and Arctic to be studied at SFU
The North and Arctic Institute, created on the basis of the Siberian Federal University, is officially opened, the regional government’s press office reports. The institution will conduct training and advanced training of specialists to study the North and the Arctic of the region. The institute is ...
Space monitoring company to study permafrost
Nornickel has signed an agreement with the leading Russian space monitoring company Sovzond. For two seasons, the experts will study the condition of soils under industrial and infrastructure facilities. “The autumn season, before the hard frosts, is the period when individual deformations can be traced. Another ...
Arctic routes become popular
The expedition to the Arctic on yachts dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory reached Salehard in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region. “We are in Salehard. Our Arctic sailing expedition has arrived in the capital of the Yamal-Nenets autonomous region from Archangelsk and completed the sea ...
Business to get Arctic resident status
The President of Russia signed a package of federal laws on the system of preferences in the Arctic on July 13. It includes the federal law On State Support for Entrepreneurship in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation and amendments to the Tax Code. ...
Bread barrels and sausage boxes
The food depot was left by the researchers of one of the first Arctic expeditions. The expedition of the Russian Geographical Society and the Northern Fleet found on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago a 150-year-old grocery store, in which there were nine barrels for bread, seven ...
Arctic needs to be met
51 enterprises of the Northern capital signed contracts for 700 million rubles with eight regions of the Arctic, including the Krasnoyarsk region. This was reported by the St. Petersburg Committee for Arctic Affairs. “The contracts were made based on the results of open tender procedures organized ...
Looking for a century-year-old loss
Scientists from the joint expedition of the Russian Geographical Society and the Northern Fleet to the Arctic archipelagos have completed their studies of the underwater object, which was found in the Yenisey gulf. On August 19, the expedition members using sonar in the area of cape ...