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We had come to this remote spot a week earlier filled with both excitement and anxiety over the prospects of exploring the icy waters of the White Sea.
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Excerpts from Current Biology, Volume 22, Issue 20, R860-R861, 23 October 2012
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The main attraction in this scenic land is the White Sea.
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Each more or less erudite traveler I questioned told to me that Kamchatka is the land of volcanoes. Of the more than 600 volcanoes on the planet, 160 of them are located on the peninsula of Kamchatka, and 30 of them are active.
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Decades have now passed since this pioneering event. Inventors of diving equipment have steadily created more perfect and trouble-free underwater devices, but cave diving in Russia is still an activity for a devoted few.
The chapel was built by Muscovites in 2004—a tribute of love to the main water artery that feeds their native city.
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The sudden fall of the Berlin Wall changed the idea of an expedition to Lake Baikal from just wishful thinking to a project that was actually realisable.
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During their three years here, the Dutchman organized three expeditions to search for a navigable way through the ice.
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This is a favorite place for modern shamans and is a well-known Stone Age settlement. Stone axes, bones of mammoths killed by our ancestors, and the most ancient musical instrument in the world, a flute, has been found here.
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In 2006, marine biologists from St Petersburg’s department of Utrishsky Dolphins’ Aquarium decided to initiate a scientific project to build a natural farm, or nursery, for the breeding of white whales—or beluhas, as they are called in Russia—on t
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People who ate the stinky meat reported numbness, a rash or stomach ache. The origin of the odor—which has also affected seals, walruses and cod—has baffled scientists, and in 2003, U.S.
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