Nagurskaya
| Nagurskaya Base Airport | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | UODN |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 18 m (59 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 0 km from Nagurskaya |
| Street | no |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1947 |
| operator | Russian border guards |
| Start-and runway | |
| 10/28 | 1500 m × 35 m snow |
Nagurskaja ( Russian Нагурская , formerly Nagurskoje , Russian Нагурское ) is Russia's northernmost military base. It is located in the north of the island of Alexandraland of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Ocean .
Nagurskaya is the only inhabited place on the island. The station consists of a large building complex with barracks, warehouses, garages, an airport and a small wooden church.
location
Nagurskaja is located in the extreme northeast of the 1051 km² island of Alexandraland. This is located in the west of the Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Arctic Ocean and administratively belongs to the Arkhangelsk Oblast . The station is 18 meters above sea level and 1000 km north of the closest Russian mainland coast.
climate
The climate around Nagurskaja is arctic harsh with long, severe winters . The summer is very short, cold and damp. The mean annual temperature is −11.8 ° C. The warmest month is July with an average temperature of +0.9 ° C. The coldest month is March at −23 ° C. The temperature maximum is +13 ° C, the temperature minimum is −54 ° C. During the year there is an average rainfall of 295 mm . The wind blows mainly from the south with an average of 5.6 meters per second. From mid-September to mid-July, the island is covered by a blanket of snow. Due to its location more than 1500 km north of the Arctic Circle , the midnight sun shines in Nagorskaya from April 11th to August 30th . In winter, the polar night lasts for several months.
history
During the Second World War , the Germans first built a secret weather station on the island in September 1943. This station, known as the Schatzgräber weather station, had to be evacuated in July 1944 after almost the entire crew fell ill with trichinella . It was not until 1990 that the mines that were laid at the time were defused.
After the end of the Second World War, the Soviet airfield Nagurskoje was built on Alexandraland in 1947 , named after the Russian-Polish pilot Jan Nagórski , who carried out the first motorized flights in the Arctic in 1914 when he was looking for the missing North Pole expeditions Sedov , Brusilov and Russanows took off from Novaya Zemlya and flew towards Franz-Josef-Land. In the early 1960s, a settlement was established near the airfield. A polar station named Nagurskaya was built here . In the 1980s, in addition to border guards, there were also meteorologists, zoologists, geologists and one department each from the air defense and the Soviet Navy at the station.
In 1997 the hydrometeorological weather station was closed. After the resurgence of Russian interest in developing the Arctic, a monument was inaugurated at the station in 2004, which is intended to represent the creation of the first Russian base for the appropriation of the Arctic in the 21st century. In the period that followed, the station was further expanded. In September 2008 a conference of the Russian Security Council took place at the base . The meeting, which was attended by the head of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, among others, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and Transport Minister Igor Levitin, focused on the use of the Arctic as a future strategic raw material base. In 2009 the station was inhabited by about 50 people, including soldiers, scientists and meteorologists. The employees are all subordinate to the Russian secret service FSB .
After three years of construction, a new building complex was completed in 2017. The four- to five-story, three-armed complex is 14,000 square meters in size and can accommodate up to 150 soldiers from the Northern Fleet and supply them autonomously over a period of one and a half years.
Incidents
- On July 2, 1955, a Soviet Ilyushin Il-12 landed in heavy fog and after several attempts to land in a place that was not cleared of snow. The left main landing gear broke and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.
- On May 5, 1988, wind shear caused the crash landing of a Soviet Antonov An-26 , which was destroyed in the process.
- On December 23, 1996, when a Russian Antonov An-72 landed in bad weather, the landing gear broke and the aircraft was irreparably damaged. Three of the 24 crew members suffered serious injuries.
gallery
The main building complex
The northernmost Orthodox Church in the world
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Web links
- Александр Карпов: Застава "Нагурское". Главное - выжить . September 11, 2004 article about the station on vesti.ru (Russian)
- Aircraft Accident data and reports in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nagurskoje on locationidentifiers.org ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (English)
- ↑ a b c “Вечерний Мурманск” issue 172 from September 18, 2007 ( memento of the original from February 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian)
- ↑ a b Северное межрегиональное территориальное управление Федеральной службы по гидрометеорологии и мониторингу окружающей среды temperatures of Severnoye UGMs (Russian)
- ↑ Visibility periods of the midnight sun website lexikon.astronomie.info
- ↑ Base “Treasure Digger” in the Arctic Russia is researching Nazi weather station. n-tv , November 2, 2016, accessed on September 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Matthias Schepp and Gerald Traufetter: ARKTIS: Rich in the cold. Der Spiegel , January 25, 2009, accessed on September 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Michael Wenger: Russia's newest military base in the Arctic opens its doors. Polarnews , May 2, 2017, accessed September 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Long Night Rescue , RotorTales, 1998, p. 7 ( Memento from June 9, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
