MOSCOW, August 18. /TASS Correspondents Yulia Ostrogozhskaya, Irina Skalina/. Otto Schmidt - a scientist, a walking encyclopedia, mathematician, geographer, astronomer, an Arctic explorer and a ...

Of that hardy, hairy crew who prowl for Soviet glory north of Russia’s long Arctic coast line, hardiest and hairiest is jungle-bearded Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, chief editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia, ...

Researchers have found and raised fragments believed to be from a Soviet steamship that sank more than 70 years ago off the Arctic region of Chukotka, a Russian news agency reported Thursday.

It was arguably the greatest adventure epic of the Soviet era, a tale of derring-do in the Arctic Ocean that delighted Stalin and gripped the world. The saga of the steamship Chelyuskin has been ...

February 1934. The passage of the Northern Sea Route in one navigation was an ambitious goal and was of great importance for the USSR. Many considered this venture to be a hopeless and risky venture.

Cape Chelyuskin is the northernmost mainland point of Eurasia, Asia and Russia, and the northernmost point of the continental landmass MURMANSK, April 3. /TASS/. The Clean Arctic environmental project ...