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Buryatia's business residents launch four tourism projects on Lake Baikal

Arctic business resident to build motel on Yamal

New icebreaker's maiden voyage due April 15

Polar Lithium may build road to deposit using concession mechanism

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Travelers first time get to Severnaya Zemlya archipelago driving serial wheeled vehicles

Severnaya Zemlya is the Krasnoyarsk Region's northernmost point and the last great geographical discovery on the planet

Northernmost museum on Hooker Island to open first section in August

The museum's opening will be dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the Northern Sea Route's development

Belarus needs Northern Sea Route to ship products — expert

According to Analyst at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies Olga Lazorkina, all countries have interest in the Arctic, and in the coming years the region may become a zone of confrontation

Winter on Arctic coast gets one week shorter over 60 years

The experts have studied snow cover at 620 Arctic weather stations

Scientists explain why butterfly with habitat from Finland to Sakhalin is super rare

Russian entomologist Eduard Eversman first described Menetries' tiger moth in 1846 as he found a single butterfly in the mountains of northeastern Kazakhstan

Investments in Baimskaya ore zone development to make about $12 billion

Baimskaya Management will be the first company in the country's copper industry to use the direct flotation technology, and it will use fully unmanned mining equipment

Bridge across Lena to cut annual cost of Yakutia's winter supplies by $46 million

Yakutia's head of the government, Kirill Bychkov, noted the bridge would favor the macroregion's transport accessibility from current 22% to almost 90%

Scientists create 3D model of Spitsbergen's largest hydrolaccolite

Hydrolaccoliths are a mass of subsurface ice, similar in shape to laccoliths

Clean Arctic plans to screen films found during cleanup in Chukotka

Volunteers found rare Soviet-era films inside the preserved Glubokaya weather station on the Palyavaam River

Russian scientists report rapid glacier melting on Spitsbergen Archipelago

Scientists of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute have found that over the past five years, glaciers in the archipelago's southwestern part every year have been losing the ice layer of almost 2.5 meters