#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Scientists from Roshydromet have begun a field research season in the Western Arctic – in June, expeditions in the northern seas and coastal zones are looking for sunken submarines, a disappeared city, and also collecting garbage that has accumulated over decades for removal.
Currently, work is being carried out in the White and Barents seas – researchers are finding out how the state of the environment has changed in the areas of facilities with spent nuclear fuel, including sunken nuclear submarines. Among them is the nuclear submarine K-159, which sank in 2003 near the island of Kildin.
Researchers take water samples at different depths, sediment samples and aerosols. The material will be checked for the content of man-made radionuclides, and in the future the level of radioactive contamination of the environment will be determined.
In addition, a team of researchers and scientists from the Pomeranian shipbuilding partnership set off from Arhangelsk on a carbass to the ‘gold-boiling Mangazeya’, the fur-bearing capital of Siberia in the 17th century, which disappeared from the map of Russia. Under sail and oars, participants will cover three thousand kilometers in the footsteps of the Arhangelsk pomors. The passage runs through the White, Barents and Kara seas, the Kaninsky and Yamal portages, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.
The student expeditionary force Team Arctic has already returned to Arhangelsk. The environmental team carried out spring cleaning of four Arctic territories: Zimnegorsky Mayak and Morzhovets island in the White sea, cape Kanin Nos, and Kolguev island in the east of the Barents sea.
Volunteers also helped polar explorers in scientific research, marked tourist routes, and developed the territories of high-latitude stations, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes.
Let us remind you that studies of the Taimyr coast over 40 years are now available online.
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Text: Angelika Stepanova, Photo: Nikolay Shchipko
