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Vasily Bogoyavlensky, geologist and geophysicist, said that there are many of such "black holes" in the north of Russia. Many of those craters have emerged during the past ten years. The very first crater, which was discovered in 2014, became the famous one. It was a hole about 50 meters deep and 40 meters in diameter. Geologists quickly established that the giant hole in the ground was just a hole, from which methane was bursting out. A cavity is formed in the layers of underground ice as it melts due to the influence of a local anomalous heat flow. This cavity is then filled with gas, and ...

Credit: Evgeny Chuvilin Researchers from the Oil and Gas Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and their Skoltech colleagues have surveyed the newest known 30-meter deep gas blowout crater on the Yamal Peninsula, which formed in the summer of 2020. The paper was published in the journal Geosciences. Giant craters in the Russian Arctic, thought to be the remnants of powerful gas blowouts, first attracted worldwide attention in 2014, when the 20 to 40-meter wide Yamal Crater was found quite close to the Bovanenkovo gas field. The prevailing hypothesis is that these craters are ...

Teachers in Yakutia’s nomadic schools to come from indigenous communities Yakutia’s leader of the Center for Nomadic Education Natalia Sitnikova, who had supervised a working group on the new document, told TASS about the new recommendations © Anatoly Strunin/TASS YAKUTSK, February 3. /TASS/. Russia’s Ministry of Education recommended to Arctic regions to begin training teaches for nomadic schools and kindergartens. The students will be representatives of the local communities of low-numbered indigenous peoples. Yakutia’s leader of the Center for Nomadic Education Natalia Sit...

French specialists engaged in repairs of cable-stayed bridge to Russky Island damaged by ice storm VLADIVOSTOK. Dec 11 (Interfax) - Stays of the cable-stayed bridge to the Russky Island in Vladivostok damaged by the recent ice storm require repairs, the Primorye territorial government press service said in a statement. "Representatives of the Freyssinet company [the French company that installed the bridge's stays] have arrived in Vladivostok to assess the condition of structures of the bridge to the Russky Island after the icing incident and to elaborate further decisions," the statement sai...