#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. An exhibition about mail in the Arctic has opened at the St. Petersburg Icebreaker Krasin Museum, a branch of the World Ocean Museum. It talks about the organization of postal services in the most inaccessible points of the Arctic region; photographs, envelopes and postcards with special cancellation marks are presented there.
The project, dedicated to the Franz Josef Land archipelago discovery’s 150th anniversary, was based on correspondence and other items from the personal collection of the leading researcher at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, head of the Open Ocean project, Maria Gavrilo.
Let us recall that in 1929, the Soviet Union founded the first year-round scientific station on Franz Josef Land in Tikhaya bay, and the northernmost post offices on Hayes island and Hooker island, which still exist today, are located there.
The museum exhibition will be open until the end of January 2024.
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Text: Maria Ivanova
