Russian Arctic National Park: the start of the summer tourist season
The tourist season opens in the national park "Russian Arctic" (Arkhangelsk region).
Aleksandr Kirilov: “This year we are happy to work with tour operators again.”
July 11 from Murmansk to the North Pole on the nuclear icebreaker "50 years of Victory" went the first this year tourist flight. Traditionally, the cruise flight is accompanied by state inspectors of the Russian Arctic National Park.
Travelers will visit the Franz Josef Land archipelago, which belongs to the park. The famous traveler Fyodor Konyukhov will be on the flight this year, he will conduct research on a drifting ice floe at the pole for two weeks and return back on the next icebreaker flight.
Russian Arctic National Park is the largest specially protected Arctic territory in the world, it was founded in 2009. The total area of the national park is more than 8.8 million hectares. It includes two clusters: the North (Franz Josef Land archipelago) and the South (the northern tip of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago with adjacent islands).
Source: tourism.interfax
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