Clean Arctic

“Clean Arctic” is a large-scale project to clean up the Arctic territory of Russia from waste and garbage accumulated since Soviet times. The idea belongs to Dmitry Lobusov, captain of the “50 Years of Victory” nuclear icebreaker, and Gennady Antokhin, Soviet and Russian icebreaker captain, Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation. “Clean Arctic” has become a platform that brings together public and volunteer organizations, scientists, heads of Russian regions and businesses. The project partners are MMC Norilsk Nickel, PhosAgro and Russian Railways. The “Clean Arctic” Column is dedicated to the environmental initiatives of all countries in the region. Map of project Clean Arctic-2023

07-07-2022

The participants of the Arctic Floating University tested a garbage collector robot on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago’s Severny Island. The Atlas robot engineered by the students of the Northern Arctic Federal University, is a four-kilogramme wheeled platform equipped with a video camera and manipulators. The task of the Atlas robot is to collect garbage or research samples in hard-to-reach areas in the Arctic (near turbulent rivers, under cliffs, on steep slopes), where the work is fraught with risks to humans or local ecosystems.

07-06-2022

In the Verkhoyansk District of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), it is planned to set up a tourism and recreational cluster “Verkhoyansk - the Heart of the Arctic”. The master plan for the cluster was developed by the Tourism Development and Territorial Marketing Agency of the Republic.

07-06-2022

Nikolay Doronin, Chairman of the PODA’s (Project Office for the Development of the Arctic) Board, joined the Public Council under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation and became Deputy Chairman of the Commission for Public Control over the Implementation of the “Ecology” national project.

07-05-2022

Rosneft and the Russian Arctic National Park have summed up the results of the comprehensive Clean Arctic project to study the impact of Soviet-era economic activities on Arctic ecosystems, polit.ru writes.