Russia welcomes foreign partners in the development of the shelf and is preparing to defend their territories. As you know, Canada - Nordic country . The total length of its Arctic coastline is about 162,000 miles , and the area of the Arctic territories it occupies the first place in the world. However, the official Ottawa not averse to expand its sphere of influence in the region .
The book under review contains some biographical information on about two hundred domestic and foreign researchers whose names are on the map of the Russian sector of the Arctic. In the work does not include people who are not related to the Arctic, for example, members of the reigning families of Austro-Hungary and England, whose names were given many facilities to Franz Josef Land, and the sponsors of Arctic expeditions, their rank and file members, relatives and friends of members of expeditions.
Among the researchers, the North of the 20th century stands out is Vilyamura Stefansson. Why? Because that's what this man bowed before the more experienced travelers and investigators, he had all the data in order to successfully engage in the study of the North, as well as the sincere love of nature and boundless desire to know it. We sell tickets to Canada.
Knud Rasmussen was born to a pastor, and his mother was half-Inuit origin. The family had three children. Rasmussen told from childhood in Greenlandic. At age 12, he was sent to Denmark to study, and in 1895 his father was transferred to Lynge (Zealand), and the family moved to Denmark. From 1898 to 1900 he studied Rasmussen in Copenhagen, then worked as a reporter for several newspapers and made the trip to Lapland.
In the new Y.Lukin's work disclosed topical issues of development of the Russian Arctic in the modern changing world. Author presents an interdisciplinary model of multi-space Arctic performance of ethnic and cultural landscape.
