The Presidential Library hosted Arctic Day

The traditional annual conference "Arctic Day at the Presidential Library" took place on February 26, 2021 in St. Petersburg (Senate Square, 3). The event was held with the organizational support of the St. Petersburg Committee for Arctic Affairs.

Schoolchildren, students, graduate students and cadets of Russian higher and military educational institutions, as well as representatives of organizations involved in the study and development of the Arctic joined the event via video conference call.

The main task of the Arctic Day at the Presidential Library was to promote Arctic expeditions, scientific research on Arctic topics, to draw attention to the problems of preserving the nature of this northern region and its original culture, as well as to support life in Arctic communities.

The conference was launched with the plenary session “Overview of Arctic Expeditions in 2020” including the complex expedition of the Northern Fleet and the Russian Geographical Society and its results.

Further, the Arctic Day in the Presidential Library followed a cycle of breakout sessions, one of which was devoted to the history of the development of the Arctic.

At the section "Youth and Arctic" participants learned about the thematic voyage to the North Pole within the framework of the "Rosatom School" project, about the educational project "On the way to Antarctica: children teach children", as well as about the Arctic Museum, which was located in secondary school № 336 in Nevsky district of St. Petersburg.

Polar pilots and the role of Russian Arctic aviation in the development of the poles of the world was discussed at the section “Aviation in the Arctic”.

The Arctic Day in the Presidential Library ended with a cinema club meeting accompanying with the film “Arctic. At the End of the Earth".