The best volunteers of the project carried out another cleaning, after which a holiday awaited them on board the nuclear icebreaker.
The final work of the second season of the Clean Arctic project began on October 16. First, the volunteers cleared the Three Streams area of waste. After that, they put things in order in the coastal zone, which the locals call the "Arctic Beach".
The final cleaning took place in a special format. Forty of the best volunteers of the project, who came from different parts of the country, landed in Murmansk.
On October 17, an excursion for volunteers took place on the atomic icebreaker Lenin, which has now been turned into a museum. After that, a solemn meeting was held right in the cabin of the legendary nuclear-powered ship, dedicated to summing up the results of the season and awarding the best of the best.
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
The first ever jump from the stratosphere to the North Pole was carried out by a group of Russian parachutists. Cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Mikhail Kornienko, instructor pilot Alexander Lynnik and space technology engineer Denis Efremov landed from a height of more than 10 km and landed near the Russian polar station "Barneo" at the North Pole of the Earth
