The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $3 million grant to support the collaborative  project entitled Frozen Commons: Change, Resilience and Sustainability in the Arctic.

The V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS’s team of the project Informal Roads: The Impact of Unofficial Transportation Routes on Remote Arctic Communities accomplished its second expedition.

Seminar-discussion of the preliminary results of the project Informal Roads: Impact of Local Transport Routes on Remote Arctic Communities, Ust-Kut.