The Clean Arctic – Vostok - 77 expedition has completed its work in Yakutia and moved to Chukotka to collect information about abandoned industrial and infrastructure facilities that require recycling or additional conservation in order to reduce their impact on the environment.
"To date, objects of the Murmansk, Arkhangelsk regions, Nenets and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Districts, Taimyr and Yakutia have already been mapped. What remains is to collect and place cartographic information on objects in Chukotka," said Stanislav Lachininsky, a member of the expedition staff.
The resulting map will help Rosatomflot and the Directorate of the Northern Sea Route state corporations plan the loading and routes of ships that will be able to remove several hundred thousand tons of equipment from the coastal facilities discovered by the expedition.
The Clean Arctic – Vostok –77 is the largest in terms of the number of participants among continental high–latitude scientific expeditions in the entire history of research in the North.
In total, about 700 participants from more than 20 centers of the Russian Academy of Sciences and federal universities, as well as volunteers of the Russian Geographical Society, will take part in it during the year. They will conduct over 200 studies on routes stretching 12,000 kilometers. One of the tasks of the expedition will be the study and preservation of rare Northern languages, ttelegraf.ru reports.
Alex Shishlo, Editor in Chief of the European Bureau, Rough&Polished
