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🌍 On August 17, retracing the first Soviet expedition to the North Pole, the international team of "Icebreaker of Knowledge - 2024" aboard the nuclear-powered icebreaker "50 Let Pobedy" (50 Years of Victory) has reached the Top of the World!

🗺 For the first time in the project's history, representatives from the World Youth Festival from 15 countries are taking part in the journey: Russia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Mongolia, Hungary, India, China, South Africa, Cameroon, Iraq, Bangladesh, and Tunisia.

👨‍🏫 During the expedition, participants will:
- Familiarize themselves with the icebreaker's operations
- Study the unique Arctic nature
- Take part in the northernmost lecture series by Rosatom and the Russian Society "Znanie"
- Send postcards from the northernmost post office on Franz Josef Land
- Become stars of the first documentary series about the life of an international team of schoolchildren in the hard Arctic conditions.

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📆 #OTD, on September 16, 1915, for the first time in the history of navigation, Boris Vilkitsky (1885-1961), Russian hydrographer and explorer of the Arctic, made a through route from Vladivostok to Arkhangelsk.

🟣The expedition began in Vladivostok on July 7, 1914, on the icebreaking steamers “Vaygach” and “Taymyr”.

☝️ During the expedition extensive scientific research was carried out: winds, currents, ice condition, depths of the northern seas were studied. The coordinates of the points of the southern coast of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago were determined and the strait between the Kara Sea and the Laptev Sea, named in Vilkitsky's honor, was discovered. This voyage was a milestone in the history of world navigation and Arctic exploration.

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