Arctic
Unforgettable adventure
Because of the pandemic, the journey to St. Petersburg from the Arctic turned into an unforgettable adventure for the Russian scientist. Alexey Niubom had to sail by ship, travel by train, bicycle and taxi ordered by the border guards. 32-year-old engineer Alexey Niubom is an employee ...
Russian schoolchildren discovered island in Arctic
The organizations’ representatives are now conducting a joint expedition to the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. The geographical discovery belongs to the RiskSat project group, which consists of eight schoolchildren from St. Petersburg, Venev, Dedovsk, Gatchina, Troitsk, Tula and Yakutsk under the guidance of the candidate of technical ...
Northern Fleet ships welcomed in Taimyr
The Arctic grouping ships of the Northern Fleet under the deputy fleet commander vice admiral Oleg Golubev command stopped at the port of Dudinka on the Saturday morning, 15 August. Previously, the ships had left the port of Dikson, where a small part of the ...
Arctic oil: three scenarios of development
The RF Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East has prepared a financial and economic justification for a bill on the mining operations on the Arctic shelf liberalization. According to the new concept, both Russian and foreign companies will be able to work ...
Polar bears filmed in Arctic
The scientists from the Russian Arctic National Park on the Mechanic Yartsev vessel studied the soil and mammals on the Novaya Zemlya and Franz Josef Land archipelagoes. According to the park director Alexander Kirilov, the expedition primarily observed marine mammals and avifauna. “On the island of ...
How freshwater organisms got to Arctic
Based on the information collected, experts will be able to predict how climate change and the development of the region will affect the life of Arctic freshwater organisms in the future. This is reported by TASS with reference to the head of the laboratory of ...
Ice minimum registered in the Arctic
The scientific director of the hydrometeorological center of Russia Roman Vilfand informed about the absolute minimum of ice coverage. According to the scientist, in this regard, the Northern Sea Route opened a month earlier – it usually happens at the end of August or in ...
Arctic waters to become cleaner
Rosatom plans to take six most radiation-hazardous objects out from the bottom of the Russian Arctic waters in eight years. These are the reactors from submarines K-11, K-19 and K-140, two intact submarines K-27 and K-159 and spent fuel from the reactor of the icebreaker ...
New Arctic record on the way
The polar captain Daniil Gavrilov is planning to make a risky journey alone. Now he is preparing for sailing his Arctic Fury racing yacht. The start is scheduled for July 2021. In the interview with the Petersburg Diary, the traveler said that no one had done ...