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Fedor Konyukhov sets to North Pole as part of Clean Arctic project

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Fedor Konyukhov sets to North Pole as part of Clean Arctic project


12.07.2021

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The traveler Fyodor Konyukhov has set off to the North Pole, where he will study microplastics. He will spend 10 days drifting across the Arctic Ocean in one of the most inaccessible places on the planet, TASS reports.

The "50 Let Pobedy" nuclear icebreaker will deliver Konyukhov to the drift site. He is going to set a mini-station at the pole and get engaged in scientific work. The ice floe on which the camp will be located can shift during the research to a distance of up to hundreds of kilometers.

Fedor Konyukhov will launch the Clean Arctic all-Russian project, the purpose of which is to develop a program to clean up the Arctic territories. Konyukhov's work on the study of microplastics is supervised by the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology. 

The icebreaker left the Murmansk region on Sunday, July 11. There are over 100 travelers and scientists on board.  

The next group will leave for the North Pole on July 22. It will include famous artists, journalists, biologists, historians, geologists and others.

Russkiy Mir 

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