Russian Arctic Exploration - Charting the Russian northern sea route. The Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition, 1910–1915, by L. M. Starokadomskiy. Translated and edited by William Barr, Montreal and London, Arctic Institute of North America and McGill-Queen's University Press, 1976, xxiv, 332 p, illus, maps. $18.95.

Polar Record ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 18 (117) ◽  
pp. 624-625
Author(s):  
Terence Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Northern Sea Route ◽  
The Arctic Ocean ◽  
Arctic Exploration ◽  
Queen's University

scholarly journals MEDICAL ASPECTS OF THE RESCUE OPERATION OF THE STEAMER’S CHELUSKIN

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (5(S)) ◽  
pp. 86-88
Author(s):  
M. V. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Rescue Operation ◽  
Economic Decisions ◽  
Northern Sea Route ◽  
The Arctic Ocean ◽  
Leading Position

The Arctic Ocean has always been and remains one of the main epicenters of scientific research, political and economic decisions in many countries. Superiority in the development of the Northern Sea Route would allow any state to take a leading position in the international arena. Therefore, different countries conducted expeditions to develop it, one of which was the «Chelyuskin Epic» of 1933–1934.

Fractal Economy of Arctic

2013 ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
M. Slipenchuk
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
International Cooperation ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
International Agreement ◽  
Northwest Passage ◽  
Northern Sea Route ◽  
The Arctic Ocean ◽  
The Status

In recent decades Arctic attracts the attention of a growing number of states. For effective international cooperation it is necessary to undertake several important steps, including legal work and adoption of documents regulating the statuses and activities of state in Arctic region. It is also needed to undertake a delimitation of sea spaces in the Arctic Ocean, to determine the measures for providing environmental safety in the regions, to reach international agreement on the status of the Northern Sea Route and Northwest Passage, to establish an innovation hub clusters and several others.

Russia and China in the Arctic: Real or Alleged Disagreements?

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
A. Zagorskii
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Water Area ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Common Heritage ◽  
Northern Sea Route ◽  
The Arctic Ocean ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law

The article concentrates on two issues articulated by Xu Guangmiao in her article “China's Arctic Interests and Policy: History, Legal Ground and Implementation” published in the same issue of the Journal: Arctic Governance (and particularly the applicability of the "Common Heritage of the Mankind in the Arctic" concept), as well as the concept of the Northern Sea Route “internationalization” based on the navigation freedom principle. Both issues are considered controversial in Russia–China relations. In addressing those issues, the author seeks to separate real and alleged divergences between the two countries. He argues that apparent differences in their particular approaches do not reflect any fundamental divergences and can be transcended if handled pragmatically, with recognition of the sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdictions of coastal states, as well as of the non-Arctic states' rights and responsibilities under the Law of the Sea. In particular, the author argues that there is no controversy surrounding China’s expectation that an Area of the Common Heritage of the Mankind would occur in the central part of the Arctic Ocean as long as the process of the continental shelf outer limits setting by the coastal states in the Arctic Ocean takes place within the procedures established by the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Similarly, China accepts the regulation of vessels traffic alongside the Northern Sea Route based on the Article 234 of the Convention, and would not be able to claim the freedom of transit passage through the NSR straits unless it joined the U.S. claim that the straight baselines drawn by Russia (and Canada) effectively including those straits into their internal sea waters violate the provisions of the Convention. So far, China does not. And as long as the NSR water area remains ice-covered for most of the year, this issue remains of theoretical rather than of practical importance.

scholarly journals The distribution of snow black carbon observed in the Arctic and compared to the GISS-PUCCINI model

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 11245-11274
Author(s):  
T. Dou ◽  
C. Xiao ◽  
D. T. Shindell ◽  
J. Liu ◽  
J. Ming ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Sea Ice ◽  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
Radiative Forcing ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Northern Eurasia ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Radiative Forcings ◽  
The Arctic Ocean

Abstract. In this study, we focus on the latest NASA GISS composition-climate model to evaluate its performance in simulating the spatial distribution of snow BC (sBC) in the Arctic relative to present observations. The radiative forcing due to BC deposition to the Arctic snow and sea ice is also estimated. Two sets of model simulations have been done in the analysis, where meteorology is linearly relaxed towards National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and towards NASA Modern Era Reanalysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) reanalyses. Results indicate that both of the modeled sBC are in good agreement with present-day observations in and around the Arctic Ocean, except for underestimation at a few sites in the Russian Arctic. The overall ratio of observed to modeled sBC is 1.1. The result from the NCEP run is slightly better than that from the MERRA run. This suggests that the latest GISS-E2-PUCCINI model does not have significant biases in its simulated spatial distribution of BC deposition to the Arctic, and underestimation of biomass burning emissions in Northern Eurasia is preliminarily considered to be the main cause of the simulation biases in the Russian Arctic. The combination of observations and modeling provides a comprehensive distribution of sBC over the Arctic. On the basis of this distribution, we estimate the decrease in snow and sea ice albedo and the resulting radiative forcing. It is concluded that the averaged decrease in snow and sea ice albedo in and around the Arctic Ocean (66–90° N) due to BC deposition is 0.4–0.6% from spring 2007–2009, leading to regional surface radiative forcings of 0.7 W m−2, 1.1 W m−2 and 1.0 W m−2, respectively in spring 2007, 2008 and 2009.

“THE RIGHT TO DEMAND ALL THE BENEFITS OF HUMAN CULTURE”: THE REPORT OF THE MEMBER OF THE YENISEISK CITY DUMA, M.P. MINDAROVSKY, ON THE NEED TO BUILD A RAILWAY TO YENISEISK (1916)

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-102
Author(s):  
E.V. Komleva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Northern Sea Route ◽  
The Arctic Ocean ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Provincial Center

The article presents the publication of the report of the local City Duma member Mikhail Mindarovsky, which was preserved in the fonds of the Yeniseisk City Archive. The report was read in June 1916 at a meeting of City Duma members in the presence of a representative of the Ministry of Railways, engineer A.M. Vikhman. The text presents the arguments of the supporters of the project of building a railway between the Yeniseisk and Achinsk, which was considered as an integral link necessary for the successful functioning of the Northern Sea Route and ensuring the successful development of the Yenisey Siberia. M.P. Mindarovsky expressed concern about the future fate of Yeniseisk and the adjacent territory, outlined possible prospects for the development of the city, associated with its transformation into a major northern port — a transshipment base for unloading goods from ships arriving through the Arctic Ocean and then transporting them to various regions of Siberia by railway. The author of the report paid special attention to the criticism of the position of some residents of the provincial center, who saw the railway to Yeniseisk as a potential threat to the welfare of Krasnoyarsk. The preserved source expands the existing ideas about the journalistic heritage and social activities of M.P. Mindarovsky, introduces the ideas about the prospects for the development of the northern Siberian regions that are widespread among his contemporaries, and reveals the details of the interaction between the government and society in the development of the Siberian North.

Rights Over the Arctic

1930 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 703-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Lakhtine
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
Far East ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The North ◽  
Arctic Regions ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Arctic Ocean ◽  
The One

The transarctic flights of 1926 and 1928 demonstrate the possibility of establishing communication by air across the Arctic regions between Europe, on the one side, and North America and the Far East on the other. Quite aside from the saving of time owing to shorter distance, the establishment of such communication presents considerably less diiSculty than air communication over the Atlantic: a conclusion derived from the transatlantic flights of the last three years. The experience of the airship Italia in May, 1928, does not at all nullify this conclusion. It serves merely to show that the organization of transarctic communication requires special prearrangements, such aa wireless stations, meteorological stations, landing-places, air-bases, the construction of which on the shores, islands, and even on the ice of the Arctic Ocean, appears to be quite feasible. The necessity for such stations has aroused in the governments of the North countries an increased interest in the Arctic regions which heretofore has been restricted to scientific circles.

scholarly journals La producción del espacio en el océano Ártico ruso entre 1991 y 2020: de tendencia silvestre del territorio a paisaje operativo urbano = The production of space in the Russian Arctic ocean between 1991 and 2020: from wilderness trend of the territory to urban operational landscape

2020 ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Javier Morell López
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Productive Force ◽  
The Arctic Ocean ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Strategic Position ◽  
Arctic Ice

ResumenEl deshielo de la banquisa polar ártica y la consecuente mejor accesibilidad marítima al océano Ártico están produciendo cambios en la geopolítica global. La Federación de Rusia, consciente de su nueva privilegiada posición estratégica, está realizando grandes esfuerzos para volver a dominar parte de esta región, experimentándose un auge militar con el fin de movilizar el territorio como fuerza productiva. El creciente flujo de mercancías y capitales, la extracción de recursos naturales y el turismo, están transformando el Ártico ruso de territorio salvaje a paisaje operativo de la urbanización planetaria. En este artículo se estudian estos fenómenos desde una geopolítica crítica y cómo se está produciendo el espacio en torno a ellos.AbstractThe melting of the Arctic ice floe and the consequent improved maritime accessibility to the Arctic Ocean are producing changes in global geopolitics. The Russian Federation, aware of its new privileged strategic position, is making great efforts to re-dominate part of this region, experiencing a military boom in order to mobilize the territory as a productive force. The growing flow of goods and capital, the extraction of natural resources and tourism are transforming the Russian Arctic from a wild territory into an operational landscape of planetary urbanization. In this article we study these phenomena from a critical geopolitical perspective and how space is being produced around them.

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