#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At cape Chelyuskin on the Taimyr peninsula, the northernmost point of Russia and Eurasia, volunteers from Clean Arctic have built a box for six people to live in. The base is located in the previously mothballed premises of the Fedorov meteorological station, which was restored by activists from all over the country: welders, engineers, electricians, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.
First, the volunteers cleared the base of the garbage that had accumulated there over several decades, then laid new floors, installed windows, wallpapered the premises, restored the heating, and laid more than 300 kilometers of cables. The base was equipped with a biological treatment station, showers, a kitchen – everything needed for civilized living. Thus, a box with two rooms appeared, where six people can live. All necessary materials, equipment, as well as a diesel generator and fuel were delivered on the vessel Mikhail Somov.
Next year, a new expedition of the Clean Arctic project will set off to Chelyuskin – a new season of cleaning up the garbage accumulated since the Soviet era, including rusty barrels of fuel and lubricants, is starting. The expedition to cape Chelyuskin is the most difficult in the history of the project, it is being carried out with the support of Rosatom and the northern department of the hydrometeorological service.
Let us recall that this year, Clean Arctic volunteers restored obelisks at the cemetery of cape Chelyuskin. This Is Taimyr also reported that specialists of the all-Russian environmental project Clean Arctic will develop rules for the waste disposal from remote places.
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Text: Anzhelika Stepanova, Photo: Nikolay Shchipko
