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The People of the Sea Foundation has created panoramic tours of hydrometeorological stations on the basis of the GIS portal "Russia - from Sea to Sea", the Northern Directorate for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring reports. Currently 12 stations are available to users for a virtual visit, including Malye Karmakuli, Zimnegorsky Lighthouse, Shoyna and others. In total interactive panoramas of more than 40 objects are planned to be uploaded by the end of the year.

To create panoramic tours, aerial photography of polar stations was organized as part of joint expeditions with the Fertoing company on board the Mikhail Somov scientific expedition vessel.

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