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"Kochevie - 2015" (Nomadic festival)
Celebration of the Indigenous Peoples of Yakutia
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During the WW2 the Soviet Union was receiving Lend-Lease wartime supplies from the Allied nations in exchange for fur and other products, meant to be returned in postwar time. These supplies have included thousands of warplanes, tanks, ammunition and nutrition. Airplanes, hence their size, were delivered by air via the safest way - across the Bering Straits, This flyway was later called AlSib - Alaska-Siberia. This route connected several airbases along the way - starting in Great Falls, MT (USA) and ending in Krasnoyarsk (USSR). The American part of the way had a final point in Nome, AK. There is Nome, the American pilots handed over controls to Russian pilots, who took the airplanes further to the Soviet Union.
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Reindeer herders from cooperative "Harp" from the Nenets Autonomous Okrug sold 14 thousand reindeer hides in this year to Finnish partners
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The center will begin its work on 14 August. Arctic rescue center is a real complex with administrative building, a hangar for storage of boats, boxes for cars and machinery, as well as a gym. The institution will work in a mode of constant readiness. Estimated staff about 100 professionals said TV “Murman”. In their powers, in addition to rescue operations will include the liquidation of situations related to the oil spill. In Arctic conditions, it is especially important. It is also planned stationing of any class of ships and helicopter.
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The volume of Arctic sea ice increased by around a third after an unusually cool summer in 2013.
Researchers say the growth continued in 2014 and more than compensated for losses recorded in the three previous years.
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Russia will strengthen its naval forces in the Arctic and Atlantic as a response to Nato activities close to Russia's borders, the Kremlin says. Russia's plans are outlined in a new naval doctrine, launched on Sunday as the nation celebrated Navy Day.
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A Japanese salmon and trout fishing boat from Hokkaido was seized by Russian authorities Friday for exceeding the fishing quota, the Hokkaido Prefectural Government said Saturday. Masato Ito, captain of the 29-ton boat Hokomaru, and 10 crew members are uninjured, it added. The Foreign Ministry asked the Russian Embassy in Tokyo to return the vessel and release the crew members at an early date.
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Polar Airlines – a Sakha regional carrier begins operating a new passenger aircraft Pilatus PC-6. On July 15 the aircraft flew to Srednekolymsk ulus to operate regularly from Srednekolymsk airport.
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The conference held in partnership with the Northern Forum Sustainable Development program is held the third time in Yakutsk.
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18th Uarctic Council Forum took place in Ulan-Ude (Buryatia) on June 14-18, 2015. The venue – Buryat State University has also hosted an Arctic dialogue in the Global Dimension Conference at the same time.
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The Northern Forum Infectious Diseases Working Group has taken part in 16th International Congress of Circumpolar Health in Oulu, Finland. The event was held on June 8-12. The InternationaI Congress on Circumpolar Health (ICCH) series are arranged every three years in Arctic countries or countries related to Arctic issues. First congress of the series was arranged in 1967, and it was previously hosted by Oulu in 1971.
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Sulus LLC. based in St.Petersburg has joined the Northern Forum as a new business partner.
Sulus LLC. operates since 2004 inhigh technology engineering in system intergration on the Russian IT Market and systems of industrial automatization.