The press service for the "Clean Arctic" project has announced that a group of ten volunteers will embark on an expedition to Cape Chelyuskin in early August. This expedition is set to be the most challenging in the project's history, with volunteers preparing for nearly a year.
The volunteers will be tasked with cleaning and renovating the only permanent structure at Cape Chelyuskin—the Rosgidromet dormitory. This building is intended to accommodate technical staff and participants of the project year-round. The first expedition will last nearly two months, and all participants have undergone rigorous selection processes. The group consists of physically fit men with qualifications such as electrician, builder, and welder.
The announcement highlights that there will be years' worth of work at the cape. A significant area requiring cleanup has been identified, with an estimated volume of pollution involving metal barrels ranging from 25,000 to 40,000. However, the exact figure will be determined at the end of the season.
"By the end of this season, we will create a detailed orthophoto map, allowing us to understand the actual volume of accumulated waste. This season, we will effectively test a new complex technology; the collected waste will be transported by helicopter to the same 'Mikhail Somov' ship, which will be engaged for backfreight. We plan to roll the barrels manually, and where distances are excessive, we will use a quad bike to avoid damaging the soil, which will never recover post-usage," explained Andrei Nagibin, the head of the public environmental project "Clean Arctic."
The first phase of the expedition preparation has now been completed. Necessary equipment and tools have been procured and packed in boxes, including diesel generators, purification facilities, a gas welding machine, construction materials, and a quad bike with a trailer. In the next phase, all of these will be shipped to Arkhangelsk, from where the research and expedition vessel "Mikhail Somov" will transport the materials directly to Cape Chelyuskin. The materials will be transferred from the ship to the shore using helicopters.
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