A fence protecting from polar bears at the Ernst Krenkel Polar Station on Heiss Island.27.09.2017#3200789
The Druzhnaya polar observatory at the Ernst Krenkel Polar Station on Heiss Island.27.09.2017#3200788
Polar expedition during tea time at the Ernst Krenkel Polar Station on Heiss Island.27.09.2017#3200786
Head of the polar weather station Andrei Gubanov at the Ernst Krenkel Polar Station on Heiss Island.27.09.2017#3200785
Information board of a former social club at the Ernst Krenkel Polar Station on Heiss Island.27.09.2017#3200773
Student volunteers clean up the Soviet-era garbage from the area near the Ernst Krenkel Polar Station on Heiss Island.27.09.2017#3200765
Sharik the watchdog protects the Ernst Krenkel Polar Station from polar bear on Heiss Island.27.09.2017#3200751
A view of the Bell Island rock from the Eira Harbour House built on the Bell Island in 1881 by the members of Benjamin Leigh Smith's expedition. Russian Arctic National Park.27.08.2017#3238382
Remains of camps of North Pole and Franz Josef Land expeditions. Cape Flora of the Yuri Kuchiyev Island (before the separation of the island by the strait, the Island of Northbrook). Russian Arctic National Park.23.08.2017#3238409
Cape Tegethoff, Hall Island, where development of the Franz Josef Land Archipelago started under the leadership of Karl Weyprecht and Julius Payer. Russian Arctic National Park.21.08.2017#3238412
Ecologists Andrei Skorov and Alexander Chichyev study the polluted coast of Kuna Island of the Franz Josef Land Archipelago.17.08.2017#3209277
Archaeological research of the ruins of the base camp of the American expedition headed by meteorologist Evelyn Baldwin who tried to reach the North Pole from the Alger Island in 1901-1902. Alger Island. Russian Arctic National Park.14.08.2017#3238354
President of the inter-regional public organization "Polar Explorers Association" Artur Chilingarov at the International Exhibition of High Technology and Equipment for the Arctic, Siberia and Far East (VTTA - Omsk 2015), in Omsk.07.10.2015#2714032
President of the inter-regional public organization "Polar Explorers Association" Artur Chilingarov at the International Exhibition of High Technology and Equipment for the Arctic, Siberia and Far East (VTTA - Omsk 2015), in Omsk.07.10.2015#2714031
Deputy to the State Duma Artur Chilingarov and his wife Tatyana posing for a photographer before a gala supper at the "Krasny Oktyabr" ("Red October") Factory, Moscow. 2011.24.03.2011#891601
Russian polar explorer and record-holder Matvei Shparo at Sheremetyevo 1 airport. Shparo and another record-holding Polar explorer Boris Smolin have set another world record, skiing to the North Pole at night for the first time in history. Both men set out during the winter equinox, on December 22, 2007, from Cape Arktichesky, the northernmost point of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. They reached the North Pole 83 days later, on March 14, 2008 at 7.40 pm. Moscow time, traveling over 1,000 km along Arctic Ocean ice floes and arriving seven days before the onset of the polar day. At Sheremetyevo airport.02.04.2008#304377
Russian polar explorer and record-holder Boris Smolin at Sheremetyevo 1 airport. Smolin and another record-holding Polar explorer Matvei Shparo have set another world record, skiing to the North Pole at night for the first time in history. Both men set out during the winter equinox, on December 22, 2007, from Cape Arktichesky, the northernmost point of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. They reached the North Pole 83 days later, on March 14, 2008 at 7.40 pm. Moscow time, traveling over 1,000 km along Arctic Ocean ice floes and arriving seven days before the onset of the polar day. At Sheremetyevo airport.02.04.2008#304376
Russian Polar explorers and record-holders Matvei Shparo and Boris Smolin [right to leftat Sheremetyevo 1 airport. They have set another world record, skiing to the North Pole at night for the first time in history. Both men set out during the winter equinox, on December 22, 2007, from Cape Arktichesky, the northernmost point of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. They reached the North Pole 83 days later, on March 14, 2008 at 7.40 pm. Moscow time, traveling over 1,000 km along Arctic Ocean ice floes and arriving seven days before the onset of the polar day. At Sheremetyevo airport.02.04.2008#304375
Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov (left) meeting with polar explorers who plan to establish the North Pole-33 drifting ice station in the Arctic on August 10, 2004. 26.07.2004#111013
Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov (left) and Arthur Chilingarov, deputy Sate Duma speaker and president of polar explorers' association, meeting in the Government. House. Mikhail Fradkov has met with polar explorers who plan to establish the North Pole-33 drifting ice station in the Arctic on August 10, 2004. 26.07.2004#111012
Arthur Chilingarov, deputy Sate Duma speaker and president of polar explorers' association, and head of the North Pole-33 expedition, which begins to start its work in the Arctic in August 2004. 26.07.2004#111011
Twin Pole-95 international trans-Arctic expedition whose crew (people from different countries) crossed the Arctic Ocean on dog sleds. One of the expedition leaders Viktor Boyarsky (Russia). Severnaya Zemlya.10.03.1995#817685
One of the most famous climbers in world history, Reinhold Messner from Italy during an expedition to the North Pole.16.02.1995#8425157
Cossacks from Irkutsk and the Irkutsk Region honor the memory of Admiral Alexander Kolchak, Russia's supreme ruler and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, on the Ushakov River flowing into the Angara, where he was thrown after the execution on February 7, 1920.07.02.1995#8424058
Cossacks from Irkutsk and the Irkutsk Region honor the memory of Admiral Alexander Kolchak, Russia's supreme ruler and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, on the Ushakov River flowing into the Angara, where he was thrown after the execution on February 7, 1920.07.02.1995#8424057
The first international parachute expedition to the North Pole. Expedition members. Far right: Sergei Insarov, Chief, Parachute Rescue Center, Union of red Cross and Red Crescent Societies of the USSR; polar explorer Dmitry Shparo is standing next to him, Air Major General Gennady Amelkin, Arctic Aviation Commander; far left: US air cameraman Norman Ken; Japanese journalist Takaka Takano is standing next to him; third left: US parachute equipment designer Bill Bus.10.04.1991#6692543
Polar expedition of the Soviet Russia newspaper. Ecologist V.Lukichev is seen onboard a helicopter.01.02.1990#8301231
A polar expedition of the Soviet Russia newspaper. A participant in the first international sled dog race in the USSR in the Chukotka Autonomous Area.01.02.1990#8301228
A polar expedition of the Soviet Russia newspaper. The first international sled dog race in the USSR in the Chukotka Autonomous Area.01.02.1990#8301226
A polar expedition of the Soviet Russia newspaper. Schoolchildren in a computer class in a school in the Chukotka Autonomous Area.01.02.1990#8301220
A polar expedition of the Soviet Russia newspaper. Senior reindeer herder Alexei Serotetto.01.02.1990#8301219
A polar expedition of the Soviet Russia newspaper. The first international sled dog race in the USSR in the Chukotka Autonomous Area.01.02.1990#8301218
Leisure time. A participant in the women's Antarctic scientific-sports expedition "Metelitsa" whose crew made a ski crossing from Mirny Station to the Pole of Cold, Vostok Station.01.11.1989#506650
A monument to the first polar explorer Ivan Khmara who was killed on january 21, 1956 during the first Soviet Antarctic expedition.01.04.1989#8200457
The 34th Soviet Antarctic Expedition carried out between the fall of 1988 and the spring of 1989. Delivering freight from the mainland to the Mirny station.01.02.1989#6628740
The 34th Soviet Antarctic expedition, fall 1988 - spring 1989. Mr. Tsyvarev, head of the Mirny-Vostok sledge-tractor train.01.02.1989#8201608
The 34th Soviet Antarctic expedition, fall 1988 - spring 1989. Landscapes near the Australian Mawson Station in East Antarctic.01.02.1989#8201491