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Photos from the Arctic-2015 expedition

  • Arctic-2015 expedition aboard the Kartesh research vessel leaves base. Kola Bay
  • Expedition members make first landing. Cape Kanin Nos
  • Pechora Sea
  • A cross in honor of the centenary of the return of the Sedov and Brusilov expeditions erected at Rynda (Kola Peninsula)
  • Polar Expedition Gallery participants and Center for Marine Studies specialists erect a memorial cross and a flag pole with the Russian tricolor in honor of the centenary of the return of the Sedov and Brusilov expeditions at Rynda (Kola Peninsula)
  • Novaya Zemlya soil. South of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago
  • Novaya Zemlya flora
  • Ice fields closing in on a bay at Cape Sakhanin in the south of Novaya Zemlya. Late July 2015
  • Ice floes take bizarre forms. Cape Sakhanin, Novaya Zemlya
  • Bird rookeries. Novaya Zemlya
  • South of Novaya Zemlya
  • Novaya Zemlya
  • Walrus rookery on Vaigach Island. Cape Bolshoi Lyamchin Nos
  • A Center for Marine Studies specialist observes walruses. Cape Bolshoi Lyamchin Nos, Vaigach Island
  • Walruses. Cape Bolshoi Lyamchin Nos, Vaigach Island
  • Walruses bask in the rare polar sunshine. Cape Bolshoi Lyamchin Nos, Vaigach Island
  • The Arctic Ocean
  • Nenets Andrei, a native of the Vaigach Island. Expedition members repaired the roof of Andrei’s dilapidated house and decorated its walls with professional photos of scenic landscapes from central Russia
  • Bely Island
  • Vaigach Island. October 2015
  • Arctic fox on Vaigach Island
  • Vaigach Island. October 2015
  • Bely Island
  • Double rainbow on Kola Peninsula. October 2015
  • Arctic-2015 expedition aboard the Kartesh research vessel leaves base. Kola Bay
  • Expedition members make first landing. Cape Kanin Nos
  • Pechora Sea
  • A cross in honor of the centenary of the return of the Sedov and Brusilov expeditions erected at Rynda (Kola Peninsula)
  • Polar Expedition Gallery participants and Center for Marine Studies specialists erect a memorial cross and a flag pole with the Russian tricolor in honor of the centenary of the return of the Sedov and Brusilov expeditions at Rynda (Kola Peninsula)
  • Novaya Zemlya soil. South of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago
  • Novaya Zemlya flora
  • Ice fields closing in on a bay at Cape Sakhanin in the south of Novaya Zemlya. Late July 2015
  • Ice floes take bizarre forms. Cape Sakhanin, Novaya Zemlya
  • Bird rookeries. Novaya Zemlya
  • South of Novaya Zemlya
  • Novaya Zemlya
  • Walrus rookery on Vaigach Island. Cape Bolshoi Lyamchin Nos
  • A Center for Marine Studies specialist observes walruses. Cape Bolshoi Lyamchin Nos, Vaigach Island
  • Walruses. Cape Bolshoi Lyamchin Nos, Vaigach Island
  • Walruses bask in the rare polar sunshine. Cape Bolshoi Lyamchin Nos, Vaigach Island
  • The Arctic Ocean
  • Nenets Andrei, a native of the Vaigach Island. Expedition members repaired the roof of Andrei’s dilapidated house and decorated its walls with professional photos of scenic landscapes from central Russia
  • Bely Island
  • Vaigach Island. October 2015
  • Arctic fox on Vaigach Island
  • Vaigach Island. October 2015
  • Bely Island
  • Double rainbow on Kola Peninsula. October 2015
© Yaroslav Amelin
Arctic-2015 expedition aboard the Kartesh research vessel leaves base. Kola Bay

In 2015, the Polar Expedition Gallery and the Moscow State University Center for Marine Studies organized a major Arctic expedition in the course of which the Kartesh research vessel traveled more than 5,700 nautical miles along the Murmansk-Naryan-Mar-Vaigach Island-Novaya Zemlya Archipelago-Yamal Peninsula-Bely Island-Ob Bay-Tazovskaya Bay-Vaigach Island-Kola Peninsula-Murmansk route.

Photographers took a lot of pictures, while scientists conducted research for three months. A memorial cross in honor of the centenary of the return of the Sedov and Brusilov expeditions was erected at Rynda (Kola Peninsula).

Expedition members: the Polar Expedition Gallery; the Moscow State University Center for Marine Studies; the Council for Sea Mammals, a regional NGO; the WWF Barents Sea Branch.