#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The exhibition In the Snow Queen’s Kingdom based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, which turns 180 years old in 2024, opened at the Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic (RSMAA) in St. Petersburg.
The exhibits include of miners’ work and life attributes, photographs of the archipelago landscapes and other things that tell about life on the polar islands, TASS writes with reference to the Arktikugol trust’s telegram channel.
As it is known, the storyteller located the palaces of his heroine on Spitsbergen.
The exhibition presents coal mined at the northernmost Russian mine Barentsburg, Russian miners’ everyday clothing, booms made by residents that were in circulation in the Barentsburg and Pyramida settlements, shots of rare arctic animals, plants, mountains, glaciers, lakes, fjords.
The Arktikugol trust acted as a partner of the exhibition.
Let us add that Russia has been working on Spitsbergen for over 90 years. In 1931, the state trust Arktikugol was founded, which produces 120 thousand tons of coal per year. The head of the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexey Chekunkov previously reported that coal is not the future of Spitsbergen. The archipelago is interesting for tourists, and investments should be made in this direction.
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Text: Maria Sokolova, Photo: Severny Gorod MC
