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Group from expedition "North", Proshutinsky is standing 3rd from right.

Group from expedition "North", Proshutinsky is standing 3rd from right.
Group from expedition "North", Proshutinsky is standing 3rd from right.
Group from expedition "North", Proshutinsky is standing 3rd from right.
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Group from expedition "North", Proshutinsky is standing 3rd from right.
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11/30/2010
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Expedition "Sever" (North), airborne used airplanes Li-2 (S-47) and after 1976: Antonov-2 - biplane with 1 engine. These expeditions had a major goal to measure Arctic Ocean sea ice conditions (concentration, thickness, ridges, leads, frozen leads to be used for temporal airports on sea ice, etc.) and ocean water temperature, salinity, oxygen, ocean depths and many other parameters. There work covered the whole Arctic Ocean with landing and observations every 100 - 150km.
High-latitude air expedition "North", as a rule, worked two periods in a year: in spring (March-May) and in autumn (November-December). In the fall, material and technical support was provided for the drifting scientific stations. In the spring (my photos are from spring), scientific teams carried out complex observations at the planned points of the Arctic basin or the shelf Arctic seas. These units were usually called "jumping", because, after observing at one point, they flew immediately to another, then to the next one, and so on. At each landing point, scientists together with the crews of aircraft (helicopters) deployed temporary camps on ice, which were here from a few hours to several days, depending on the requirements of the program.
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In 1978, a team of Russian scientists including WHOI senior scientist Andrey Proshutinksy (third from the right) took to the sky in a single-engine Antonov-2 biplane to observe sea ice and ocean conditions across the Arctic. During the jumping expedition known as Expedition Sever, pilots had to tackle the tricky and dangerous feat of landing the plane on drifting pack ice every 100 to 150 kilometers so that scientists could observe and take measurements.
Photo courtesy of Andrey Proshutinsky
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