Russian students cleaning up Soviet mess in the Arctic | Barentsobserver
▻http://barentsobserver.com/en/nature/2013/11/russian-students-cleaning-soviet-mess-arctic-28-11
“We worked for hours,” says 21 year old Igor Belousov to BarnetsObserver in a phone interview. He is a student at the Faculty of energy and transportation at the Arkhangelsk-based Northern Arctic Federal University. “Each day some more garbage from the Soviet period was cleared away.”
This summer Igor spent two months of his vacation at Franz Josef Land. The archipelago lies in the Arctic Ocean north of Novaya Zemlya and east of Svalbard. It consists of 191 ice-covered islands.
“It really is a rare opportunity for me as a student to be able to live in the Arctic for such a long time,” says Belousov. “I saw eight polar bears during my stay there, but the weather was much warmer then I`d expected.”
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