#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Employees of the Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic in St. Petersburg have opened an exhibition dedicated to scientific instruments for studying the environment in the Far North. The exhibition consists of four sections and tells about the weather service and weather stations.
The exhibition Principle of Operation: Meteorological Instruments in the Arctic has opened at the Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic. The exhibition is organized as part of the national project Culture and is dedicated to meteorological instruments from the museum’s collection, an explanation of the operating principle of some of them, as well as the history of the Russian Hydrometeorological Service in general.
Most of the items on display are artifacts from many famous Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Thus, equipment from the researcher Vladimir Rusanov’s campaigns in 1912–1914 is presented, as well as from drifting stations that worked in the Soviet Union before and after the Great Patriotic War.
At the exhibition you can learn that in June 1921, the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR adopted a decree on the organization of the meteorological service of the RSFSR, which became one of the key stages in the development of the weather study in Russia, reports the National Projects resource.
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Text: Denis Kozhevnikov, Photo: author
