The Institute of Permafrost Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now the Institute of Permafrost Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences) in Yakutsk. Front: a statue of a mammoth outside the institute building.30.05.1978#8935120
Yegor Popov, deer breeder from Evenki National District of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.01.01.1978#880174
Reindeer being domesticated by specialists from the Far North Agriculture scientific research institute.01.01.1978#879773
The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Electric welders engaged in the construction of the first nine-story residential buildings under construction in Mirny in Yakutia.10.04.1976#5521402
The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. First nine-story residential buildings under construction in Mirny, the diamond capital.10.04.1976#5521401
The Tyumen Region. The Khanty-Mansi National District. Construction of the Samotlor-Aleksandrovskaya oil pipeline.28.04.1975#5513700
Members of the 1973 Komsomolskaya Pravda polar expedition to the Taymyr Peninsula where they found a ration depot of the first Russian polar expedition by the Academy of Sciences on Zarya Peninsula in 1900 by scientist and traveler Eduard Toll. Fireworks in honor of the North heroes at the Toll Mark.13.05.1974#5609132
Norilsk city. Photo: Local residents use the permafrost layer which is an exceellent refrigerator.01.02.1973#5794557
Yakut SSR. Electric welders Nikolai Shmelev and Prokopy Ivanov at the construction site of Vilyuy Hydroelectric Power Station.01.02.1973#5802122
The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Teenagers playing in the yard of a residential community in Yakutsk.25.01.1973#5802130
The power transmission line of Vilyuy Hydroelectric Power Station on Vilyuy River in Yakutia.25.01.1973#5802124
Yakut SSR. The engineering geocryology laboratory of the Permafrost Institute of Siberian Branch of Academy of Sciences of еру USSR, now Melnikov Permafrost Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.25.01.1973#6322381
Permafrost Institute of Siberian Branch of USSR Academy of Sciences (currently the The Melnikov Permafrost Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences). Employees work at the engineering geocryology laboratory.25.01.1973#5976915
Yakut SSR. Staff members of the Yakut research station of the Ovbruchev Permafrost Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Melnikov Permafrost Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences) take temperature measurements in Shergin Mine.25.01.1973#5802127
Crystal formations on the walls of a polar research station in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.10.12.1972#5663810
Senior operator of the control panel Anatoly Maksimov at the Yakutian Hydropower Station.17.07.1970#5594517
Yakut SSR. Maria Gavrilova, Cand. Sc. (Geography) and senior research associate at the Obruchev Institute of Permafrost Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, now Melnikov Institute of Permafrost Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch.01.08.1969#6233243
The Institute of Permafrost Studies, Siberian Branch, Soviet Academy of Sciences, now the Melnikov Institute of Permafrost Studies, Siberian Branch, Soviet Academy of Sciences. Photo: Third-year students learn to operate a computer.21.07.1969#6173978
Construction of the Messoyakha-Norilsk gas pipeline. A helicopter delivers supplies to construction workers.03.06.1969#6152937
Flags of the Soviet Union, America and Argentina on the territory of the "Molodezhnaya" Antarctic station.01.01.1969#741108
Mounting a spiral for one of the units of Vilyuiskaya hydro-power plant (1960-1978). Republic of Sakha.01.05.1968#698569
Komi ASSR. A reindeer herd in Bolshezemelskaya tundra (a large area between the Pechora River and the Ural Mountains near the shore of the Barents Sea).23.12.1967#6141937
Yakut ASSR. Melnikov Permafrost Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Yakutsk, now Melnikov Permafrost Institute of the the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. A staff member conducts permafrost studies in a laboratory.10.09.1966#6049070
Chukchi archeologist Ilya Gurin compiles a map of archeological discoveries in Chukotka.24.01.1965#5760206
Geothermic Lab. From the exhibition collection. Institute of Permafrost Studies in Yakutia, Yakutian ASSR.30.12.1964#6016105
The Yakut Soviet Socialist Republic. Scientific research of the temperature of permafrost in the village of Mirnyi by means of the Lukianov hydraulic integrator, a computing machine performing calculations with the help of water current.01.06.1964#5682464
The Zoological Museum of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad (today's Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Zoological Institute). The stuffed mammoth found on the bank of the River Beryozovka, Siberia.02.04.1960#5686456
At the outset of building the first brick dwelling on permafrost, the city of Magadan01.09.1935#72255
Members of an expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences who arrived in September 1901 at an excavation site where the body of a woolly mammoth was unearthed. The body was located in 1900 by an Evenk hunter on the bank of the Beryozovka River, a tributary of the Kolyma River. From left: Paleontologist Yevgeny Pfitzmeier and Senior Zoological Museum Zoologist Otto Hertz.29.09.1901#5951202
