In 2020, already in three years, the hugest museum expo center will be created in the open air in Franz Joseph land. It is called The Arctic Region's Living History, TASS reports.
Among museum exhibits are the first Soviet scientific-research station founded in the Tikhaya Bay of Gucker Island, unique off-roaders and airplanes, scattered along the islands of the archipelago and left there from the time of its first development. The center will exist as an affiliate of Russian Arctic Region National park.
Big quantities of various equipment were transferred to the islands over the years of archipelago development. Some of the equipment is very well-conditioned, for example, rare tractor C-80, ANT-6 Tupolev prototype aircraft, and other pieces of machinery. They will be displayed in the expo center, together with artifacts found at the winter camps of various expeditions of the beginning of the last century.
Some items of the museum-to-be are already registered as cultural heritage of regional significance.
Franz Joseph Land officially became Russian territory in 1914, and since then its development never stopped.
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