“He pay us a visit last night.” Wrangel Island was declared a zapovednik—a federally managed nature sanctuary—in 1976, and it remains one of Russia’s coldest, remotest pieces of ...

More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military bases along its northern border.

TASS, May 15. Russian scientists will use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to watch polar bears on the Wrangel Island. UAVs will be bought during the current year, and scientists will begin using ...

A military ecology unit of the north-eastern forces began cleaning the Wrangel Island, the Pacific Fleet’s press service reported on Monday. "An ecology unit of the forces in Russia’s north ...

In late August 2019 we set off for the remote island of Wrangel in Russia’s north-eastern Arctic. The size of Crete, Wrangel is so cut off that the very last population of woolly mammoth ...

Enchanted by its rugged beauty, Sergey finds any excuse to return to Wrangel Island. With no supplies available ... determined to record the richness of Russia's wilderness. He is widely published, ...