The research expedition ship will deliver 560 tons of cargo, including for the construction of a new wintering complex at Vostok Station.
The press service of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute reported that the crew of the R/V Akademik Tryoshnikov included 42 people. On board the ship, 25 members of the wintering staff of Novolazarevskaya and Bellingshausen stations are also going to Antarctica.
The ship will pass through three oceans: Atlantic, Indian and Southern. Approximately on March 26, the NES will arrive at the port of Cape Town.
Every year, reindeer herders from the camps gather in villages to see their relatives and demonstrate their skills in traditional competitions for the northern peoples
Authorities in Norway's northernmost county, Finnmark, have put forward an unusual proposal. They have asked the European Commission to create a separate time zone that would add two hours to the day in the region
Applications for participation in the second All–Russian competition for the best trip "Far East - Land of Adventures" will begin in May, Deputy Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev told reporters
Specialists will conduct comprehensive glaciological, hydrological, paleographic, medical, permafrost, ecological and hydrochemical studies on Bolshevik Island of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago
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