Artur Chilingarov

Polar Explorer Day

Yesterday we celebrated the first ever Polar Explorer Day - a new professional holiday in Russia. Whose day is that? Arthur Chilingarov explains: “Many think that the world’s community of polar explorers is a cozy club. A tiny one, with fancy membership cards. That’s not true. Firstly and most significantly, it is a community of Arctic people permanently living and working in the Far North. They are Arctic’s first and most important explorers – from Greenland to Siberia”. Two great explorers - one from Greenland and another one from Russia - said that they will unite  Arctic peoples. On...

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