Arctic volunteers returned from the last ecological expedition of the season, which had taken place in the village of Polyarny, whose residents were resettled. The volunteers spent two weeks cleaning up waste accumulated since Soviet times in the former village of the Priuralsky District, according to a correspondence published in the Sever Press.
According to the publication, the operation was carried out under the “Clean Arctic” federal project supported by its partners Nornickel, Rosatom, PhosAgro and Russian Railways.
During this expedition, 27 activists cleaned up an area of three hectares collecting 55 tons of scrap metal to be removed removal and about 20 cubic meters of wood. In addition, they dismantled landfills and small structures, teared down 13 old buildings and metal structures.
All participants were presented with promotional gifts and letters of thanks from Dmitry Artyukhov, the Governor of Yamal.
As he noted, Yamal is focused on returning the original appearance to formerly abandoned and littered territories.
“We have declared the Year of Ecology in the region, it has not yet ended, but we are already seeing impressive results – hundreds of landfills have been eliminated in cities and towns over the summer. Such remote corners as Mount Lekvozh, the Marre-Sale weather station, the villages of Polyarny and Seyakha are unrecognizable, a lot of environmental actions have taken place. I am glad that each such cleaning or action is the work of volunteers, including both residents and guests from other regions.”
This year Arctic volunteers have participated in two more projects: in the final eco-sociological expedition to Seyahu village and in the ecological expedition to Cape Marre-Sale, which was also organized jointly with the Clean Arctic federal project.
As a result, at Cape Marre-Sale, volunteers collected, compressed and prepared for removal more than 1 500 two-hundred-liter barrels from fuel and lubricants. And in the Seyakh village, six sites were cleared of scrap metal and construction debris left in the late 1990s. They cleared the area of 7.5 hectares, collected and prepared 26 tons of metal for removal.
In total, 56 people from 17 regions of Russia and Kazakhstan took part in this year's ecological expeditions to Yamal, which meet the goals of the Russian national project "Ecology".
