A Swiss tourist group at the Arctic Circle in Chukotka, the easternmost district of Russia. (Image: Heiner Kubny) Far East and Arctic Development Minister Alexei Chekunkov said he wants to increase the annual flow of tourists to the regions to 15 million people by...
Crab fisherman in Chukotka, the Russian side of the Bering Strait. In the future, there will be restrictions to the Russian favourite activity: ice fishing. (Foto: Heiner Kubny) The ice cover of the Bering Sea has reached new lows in the winters of 2018 and 2019,...
Earlier than in the past years the walruses come to the beach of Point Lay due to the lack of sea ice in the Chukchi Sea. (Photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Pacific walruses started to gather earlier than usual on land, on a beach at the Chukchi Sea. The...
To this day, tourism in the Russian Arctic is rather modest. New, simpler entry requirements and promotion of tourist activities could be well received by polar tourists. (Photo: Heiner Kubny) The Ministry of Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic is...