From next April, the company’s own AN-74 will once again land and take off on the runway in the middle of the Arctic sea ice and take expeditioners and tourists to the camp near the North Pole. (Photo: Barneo AG) The last few years have not been a bed of roses...
The Russian drift station “Severny Polyus” (Russian for North Pole) was about 440km away from the North Pole at the time of the emergency and Svalbard was the nearest search-and-rescue site. From here the evacuation started (Illustration: Arctic and...
The seabed in the Arctic Ocean is highly coveted, and large parts of it are claimed by several littoral states at the same time. Russia’s claim (yellow) is now officially recognized by the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. Canada –...
In July 2022, the ‘student expedition’ arrived at the North Pole with the winners of the competition. (Photo: Irina Martynova) Until the sanctions against Russian facilities, the nuclear icebreaker “50 Years of Victory” sailed to the North Pole...
Start of the work of the expedition “Nordpol-41” on the ice floe. (Photo: AARI) After a construction period of 3½ years at the Admirality shipyard in St. Petersburg, the “Severny Polyus” is in service in the Arctic for the first time. On...