YAKUTSK, March 19. /TASS/. The 5th season of the Clean Arctic federal project was launched in Yakutsk as Yakutia's Governor Aisen Nikolaev and Clean Arctic's CEO Andrey Nagibin pressed a symbolic green button, a TASS correspondent reported.
The event was on agenda of the local Muus Ustar ('icebreaker' in Yakut) youth festival. "Today, the Yanolovo Company has delivered [to Yakutsk] 60 tons of scrap metal. The scrap metal has been brought from the Ust-Yansky District, from the village of Saylyk," Sergey Neustroev, Yakutia's First Deputy Minister for Arctic Development and Northern Peoples' Affairs, told TASS. The Clean Arctic project will work in Yakutia's all 13 Arctic districts.
"This year, we will have several large-scale events. In particular, we will visit all Arctic regions, from Karelia to Chukotka," Anastasia Vaterina, head of Clean Arctic's volunteer groups, told TASS. "This year, we will also focus on the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory. We will restore monuments, graves in the Murmansk Region and in other Arctic regions, including on Cape Chelyuskin, where we will clean up old graves of polar explorers."
Clean Arctic is a project to clean up the northern territories from the waste, accumulated there since the Soviet time. Over four years, 7,700 people have participated in expeditions. They have collected 19,800 tons of waste and cleaned 791 hectares of Arctic land.