Popov Station
Coordinates: 73 ° 19 ′ 54 ″ N , 70 ° 3 ′ 47 ″ E
The Popov Station ( Russian полярная станция им. М. В. Попова ) is a hydrometeorological polar station on the Russian island of Bely in the Kara Sea . It is located about 750 km north of the Arctic Circle . It is named after the Soviet polar explorer Mikhail Vladimirovich Popow (1912–1971), who set up the first radio station on the Northern Sea Route on Bely in 1934 .
location
Bely is a flat, but with 1900 km² relatively large island north of the Jamal peninsula and is separated from it by the Malygin Strait . The Popov station is located in the northwest of Belys on the eastern bank of the Protoka Rogosina (also Protoka Stanzionnaja), about 800 m from the Kara Sea. Due to the strong coastal erosion , the station was relocated several times in the past.
history
In December 1932, the Northern Sea Route Headquarters was established in Moscow in order to open up the Northeast Passage as an economic supply route. Sea marks and weather stations along the entire Russian Arctic coast were a prerequisite for safe navigation . The hydrometeorological station on the island of Bely was one of the first to go into operation on November 1, 1933. Since June 9, 1972, at the suggestion of Yevgeny Konstantinovich Fyodorov, it has been named Popov Station. Up to 300 people worked here in the 1960s and 1970s. At the end of the 1990s, however, only one building was still in use, which burned down in March 2001. On November 1st, 2002, today's station building with an area of 195 m² was inaugurated. The work rooms take up 120 m² of this. Two 10 kW diesel generators and a 6 kW petrol generator are used to supply energy. There are two parallel 30 kW diesel boilers for heating the building. A DT-75 chain tractor and a “Buran” snowmobile are available.
The Popow station has not been operated sustainably in the past. That is why Bely's fragile Arctic ecosystem was noticeably affected by the dilapidated, partly burned-down buildings and, in particular, by the rubbish left behind from dirty fuel barrels, scrap iron and rubber scraps. In 2012, a multi-year renovation of the polluted areas began. By 2014, an area of 35 hectares had been cleared by volunteers. 75 to 100 tons of metal scrap were removed.
An Orthodox chapel has stood near the station since 2012. A commemorative plaque commemorates the victims of the German attack on the BD-5 convoy on 12/13. August 1944, which took place near the island of Bely.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ю. Н. Катин: 22 декабря исполняется 100 лет со дня рождения Михаила Владимировича Попова. ( Memento of April 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Northern Administration of Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Северное управление по гидрометеорологии и мониторингу окружаюение сружающей on December 21, 2012 in Russian).
- ↑ a b А. К. Васильчук, Ю. К. Васильчук: Инженерно-геологические и геохимические условия полигональных ландшаффов острова (Белыв острова (Белоркие) . In: Инженерная геология. 1/2015, pp. 50-72 (Russian).
- ↑ Alexander Mazharov: "General Cleaning" of the Bely Island Continues . In: The Arctic Herald . Volume 7, No. 3, 2013, pp. 138-145 (Russian / English).
- ↑ TO Chilingarov: Program of Recovery of Russian Polar Stations Network (PDF; 2.65 MB). Polar Foundation, 2006, accessed November 3, 2018.