MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The Russian Arctic National Park will present in Moscow on March 3 a movie - I Am Polar Bear - about the Kara-Barents polar bear population. The last movies about the mammals were made in the Soviet Union times, in the 1960s, the National Park’s Director Alexander Kirilov told an online conference.
"On March, 3 <…>, at 18:30 at the RGO [Russian Geographical Society] <…> and online <…> we will present the I Am Polar Bear movie," he said. "It is a unique product, we can say. The last time that Russia made a movie about polar bears was in the Soviet Union, in some 1960s - that is since then nothing new has been made about polar bears, and specifically about the Kara-Barents population."
The movie, produced with the support from RGO, tells about a year-long cycle of polar bears’ lives, he continued. "The movie shows a year-long cycle of polar bears’ lives, that is a year with polar bears; the movie shows how scientists work to study the bears, experts comment on the bears’ behavior, on their lives, how they come out from the dens, what they do, how polar bears learn," the director said. "The unique movie’s runtime is about 43 minutes."
The RGO Russian-language website reads the movie will be an educational tool for the national park’s Arctic Sciences educational program. The movie includes stories about work of experts from the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, about the severe working conditions of polar explorers, and about the work of the Russian Arctic National Park’s state inspectors.
About Arctic Sciences educational project
The Russian Arctic National Park jointly with the Arkhangelsk Region’s government has been working on the Arctic Sciences educational project. "The [Russian Arctic] park for the ecology education purposes jointly with the Arkhangelsk Region’s government has been working on an educational project, dubbed the Arctic Studies," the national park’s director said.
According to him, experts have prepared educational programs for the primary school and continue working on books for the secondary school. "We have completed the work on materials for the primary school - we have published the Arctic ABC, additional materials and a teacher’s program. <…> We have been working actively on the project’s materials for kids in grades 5-9," he said. "We plan to publish student books for each grade."
Additionally, he continued, the experts have been working on sites for Arctic exhibitions. As he said, the students, who study the Arctic Sciences, tell students from other schools about what the Arctic zone looks like and about its structure.
About the Russian Arctic National Park
The Russian Arctic National Park is Eurasia’s northernmost and Russia’s biggest nature reserve. It includes the Franz Josef Land archipelago and the northern part of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. Tourists may visit the national park traveling on board cruise ships along the Northern Sea Route on the return voyage from Spitsbergen to Franz Josef Land, or on a nuclear icebreaker, which calls on Franz Josef Land during a cruise to the North Pole.