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First snow falls in Norilsk

First snow falls in Norilsk

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The first snow in mid-September for the Arctic is not an anomaly, but a normal natural phenomenon. In previous years, before significant climate change, it even fell much earlier - in the first days of the month. However, inexperienced guests of the city run ...

In Krasnoyask Marfa bear prepared for family life

In Krasnoyask Marfa bear prepared for family life

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. After several years of staying in the Krasnoyarsk flora and fauna park, the polar bear became unrecognizable. Marfa became prettier, turning into a marriageable bride. Last fall, she was moved to an enclosure complex for polar bears - the largest in Russia and Europe. Zoologists ...

Rainy night gave Norilsk rare pink aurora

Rainy night gave Norilsk rare pink aurora

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Famous Norilsk photographer Mikhail Podolyak captured a rare pink aurora for the latitude of the polar city. He took the pictures on a rainy night from September 12 to 13. It is interesting that the natural phenomenon was observed almost simultaneously over the Moscow region, ...

Specialists tell about lemming season without lemmings

Specialists tell about lemming season without lemmings

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. This year there were a lot of interesting and unusual things in the area of the Pura biological hospital. As Larisa Stryuchkova, leading public relations specialist at the federal state budgetary institution Taimyr Nature Reserves, said, zoological observations and monitoring of soil conditions were ...

Norilsk photographer opened polar lights season

Norilsk photographer opened polar lights season

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The northern lights season continues in Norilsk. Local residents share pictures of the ‘solar wind’ on social networks and say that auroras are observed very often in Taimyr this fall. Famous Norilsk photographer Mikhail Podolyak also shared photographs of a successful hunt. The master says ...

This year mushroom season  please Norilsk residents

This year mushroom season please Norilsk residents

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The only thing that doesn’t grow here is the king of mushrooms – the porcini mushroom. It is believed that there are no poisonous mushrooms in Taimyr. This is explained by the fact that there are no toxins in permafrost soil that poisonous mushrooms absorb. However, ...

Putoransky reserve to be cleared of Soviet era garbage

Putoransky reserve to be cleared of Soviet era garbage

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Taimyr Reserves in 2024 will begin to clear the Putorana plateau from man-made debris left at the times when the territory was not yet specially protected. Waste remained, for example, on the lake Ayan shores after the Soviet geologists, geodesists, polar explorers’s expeditions and fishers. ...

Siberian geologists released sterlet fry into Yenisey

Siberian geologists released sterlet fry into Yenisey

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. To replenish the Yenisey biological resources, the Siberian Production and Geological Association (PGA) of the Rosgeologiya holding released about ten thousand sterlet fry into the river. This year, the Siberian PGO is conducting prospecting and appraisal work for solid minerals in the Yenisey basin and ...

Scientific expedition to study polar bears population

Scientific expedition to study polar bears population

#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In early September, a scientific expedition will set off from St. Petersburg to the Bear Islands archipelago, which will study the population of polar bears using drones, satellites and a neural network. Russian scientists are the first in the world to explore the Arctic ...