POLAR EXPEDITION
KARTESH
July 4, 2016
On the way to Novaya Zemlya

On their way to Novaya Zemlya, the expedition participants met thousands of eider ducks; they managed to observe a school of dozens beluga whales. The beauty of the nature revealed itself to the expedition between Medynsky Peninsula and Bolshoy and Maly Zelenets Islands.
Photo by courtesy of Darya Zhuk, MEPhI press-center