Journey to the Arctic Circle

Photostory about traveling to the Arctic Circle, in the Nenets Naryan-Mar by car. A brief tour of the town and try to get back were taken fotobloggerom Frederick Taer.
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Naryan-Mar (Nenets. - Red City), the administrative center of the Nenets Autonomous District. Located above the Arctic Circle, in the estuary. Pechora, 110 km of the Pechora Sea. He lives there for twenty-five thousand men.

Today you will see in detail what a winter road - road, operation of which is possible only in winter, when freezing temperatures. Winter roads are common in Siberia and the Far North, in marshy regions, in areas where there are no bridges across the numerous streams and rivers, and other t. N. Difficult conditions. Most winter roads are used to deliver supplies and equipment to the oil and gas fields. For the device of the winter road and compacted snow rake graders, rivers crossing the ice is frozen.

1) Noon overboard -24. Leisurely polzёm towards Syktyvkar. Around Nothing, some trees and snow.





2) Ukhta. Outside, -10. Snow and goes. It is not time. He still cover everything and we will not pass. The forecast promises to zero, and then generally -40.



3) Before Sosnogorsky along the road flowed a certain stream. The options were not - passed through it. After forcing a forced stop and had to cut away the ice with wheels, mudguards and wings. It was a lot, and he gnashed his hellish on the go.



4) The snow falls and sticks to everything. Road signs are not read at all. Are these white plates. I had to take antisnezhnuyu brush (well, it is expanded), to get into the snow and clear the largest of them. As it turned out - for good reason.



5) At the entrance to Vuktyl due to road profile similar to the top of the letter "o" in the 80 km / h there was an error of piloting. The picture was taken from the other side from where we came, which, however, can be seen on the trail.



6) We Usinsk (emphasis on the "y"). However, we were told that in Naryan-Mar, we, of course, not make it: we need tachila more serious - well, that we have already said before the trip to Nizhmozero which we, by the way, it passed. In short, it was decided to get to the start of the winter road and HM, though, to see what it is. At the same time to cross the Arctic Circle. Especially because there is an asphalt road. So, outside -20 again, that's just ... I used to think that saying "if the crow flies tail forward - on the street a strong wind" - is a joke.



7) The snow is removed immediately, and not as we do.



8) It happens.



9) We have moved north. The landscape outside the window was very oil and gas, and more and more.



10) the weather improves. More precisely, it is blown away the clouds. Good to be seen glowing ring around the sun - well, still, yesterday 0 and -20 today.



11) Seasonal Forest.



12) reached the Arctic Circle. Here they are two different plate in the same place. Overboard -20 and the wind is clearly beyond 10m / s. Freezes at the moment.



13) Two kinds of trees: birch and larch. The sun still just to the west and to the north of us.



14) Tundra begins: time - and no more trees. Some torches. The most popular name of the creek right here ... - Unnamed. Per kilometer crossed three of these.



15) Torch associated gas. The thing is, illuminating the whole of the North-Eastern Europe and Western Siberia. All who see it - immediately removed.



16) like in Kharyaga to refuel, but at the gas station has been drained of gasoline. We found another machine on the low-pressure tires. We did not wait, we are there with another 40 liters in reserve, not propadёm.



17) arrived at the end of the road, found a departmental winter road "Pechoraneft." We talked with the men on duty: they say that maybe we will pass, the chances we have. We must get to the first post Naryan Mar winter road - a 22km - and ask there. Come on, look!



18) I have to say that I was inexperienced HM winter road made a big impression. Before, I thought that the winter road - it is a place where just go in the winter when everything freezes, or first tractors trample down the snow and then all go. There is not so.



19) Snow treading tractors, pour boiling water and then dub such pig iron and put the poles. It turns out the real baggy icy road, although sometimes wavy. With each snowfall it is getting better, and some crazy break on it right up to May (in the 6x6 KAMAZ, of course).



20) arrived at the first post. This trailer MOE, hidden behind the bulk of snow mountain (not to muzzle) and the barrier. They asked, how about Naryan-Mar. We are told that we do not know up to you to go or not. All you need to travel - logged.



21) Fill the canister was not so simple. Wind stronger and stronger. As a result - five liters of twenty, we were missing. While filled canister, and then shot the footage - particularly freeze right hand. 15 minutes then held it under the stove.



22) Let's see, how can we go to Naryan-Mar. In fact it turned out that, due to the undulations of the winter road, then go 40-50km.



23) went on Winter roads are not of the blue ice, and brown. And reflective tape on poles disappeared.



24) A miracle happened, we enter the Naryan-Mar. Well, who would have thought.



25) On the street we see a halo even more yesterday. The car in a warm garage wound up with a half-turn. The difference in temperature from the street - sixty degrees.



26) Going towards the center. The airport was already awake.



27) The new building of museum.



28) the post office - a symbol of Naryan-Mar.



29) Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.



30) The poor pigeons huddle at the Eternal Flame. On the street for thirty.



31) The Church of the Epiphany.



32) All that's left of Pustozyorsk.



33) went into the store - price twice higher than in Moscow.



34) looked at the effects of fire in the Arctic. And went in the opposite direction.



35) Near town even has some vegetation



36) Tundra



37) are such Peremёty. On the tarmac, we met two large peremёta one Middleweight and many small.



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39) Outside the window is beautiful. Needless to say that the wind continues to grow?



40) Strengthening beginning to bear concrete results: dark, visibility falls, and the road now looks like.



41) Pay attention to the sun.



42) On this happy note, we drove up to the winter road and entered it.



43) passed the winter road, we are on the first post.



44) The landscape has changed. Same tundra, the same night ... But the tundra in the blue lights of drilling in the bright glow of torches. Drilling everywhere.



45) Go to the south!



46) Moved Pechora. This, by the way, it is in the background. The length of the ice crossing - a kilometer or more.



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