MOSCOW, November 22. /TASS/. An international conference on climate issues and on the permafrost thawing is planned to take place in Yakutsk in 2023, Yakutia's Governor Aisen Nikolayev said after a meeting with the Russian Academy of Sciences' President Gennady Krasnikov, the Academy reported on its Telegram channel on Monday.
"The issues related to the climate changes, to the changes in cryolithozone are, of course, very important questions for the planet, for this country, this region," the Academy quoted the governor as saying. "Next year, Yakutia will host a big international conference on these topics, and, of course, it is absolutely necessary to have the Russian Academy of Sciences involved."
The parties also discussed how to organize the second complex scientific expedition to Yakutia. The first complex expedition worked in the region between 1925 and 1930. It featured outstanding scientists like orientalist Sergey Oldenburg, mineralogist Alexander Fersman, geologist Franz Levinson-Lessing and many others. The expedition gave comprehensive recommendations regarding the region's development in all spheres.
"In the beginning of the Soviet period, the first complex scientific expedition actually gave an additional impetus to development of Yakutia, a remarkable region in this country," Academician Krasnikov said. "In my opinion, nowadays we must <…> launch the second complex expedition of the kind, since very many issues related to the extraction of minerals and other mineral resources are a very complex and important task for this country, which must be analyzed by a complex approach."
The meeting participants also discussed forecasts of the situation in the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route's development.