Museum of Permafrost (37 photos) Bashny.Net

Igarka now experiencing is not the best of times. But dying town above the Arctic Circle, there is a museum, which has no analogues neither in Russia, nor in the world. This Museum of permafrost that is based on the Igarka permafrost station, with 1930 studying permafrost and its properties.
On the outskirts of the old town, surrounded by the dead and the ruins of houses, is a small building whose walls are decorated with carvings of mammoths. In this house there is a small exhibition, and most importantly - the entrance to the cave. Employees permafrost station and museum in the thickness of the permafrost was knocked out with a real mine underground halls and corridors multimeter. There, in the depth of permafrost thickness, tour guides lead visitors to the museum a few.
The deepest point of the mine at a depth of 14 meters below the surface - there segregation layer of ice reaches quite considerable thickness. Several halls are frozen in the ice plate samples of plants, are chunks of ice from the Yenisei River and Ice Mountain - mestoproyavleniya buried ice age about 50,000 years. In one of the drifts of the wall sticking out tree trunks - 70 thousand years ago, they were buried under a layer of sand and clay and were preserved by permafrost.