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In the photo: Chyskhaan is greeting the participants of the Round Table “Coldness and Civilisation” 15th December 2017.
WHERE IS A BORDER OF THE the Southern frontiers of the municipal regions coldness restrictions, the dignity life in
ARCTIC ZONE? in this zone. Thus, the Arctic zone encompasses the conditions of “double coldness”, that
In early 2014, in the territory of the 13 uluses nowadays: Abyyskiy, Allaikhovskiy, is record low temperatures of the air and
Northern regions of the Sakha (Yakutia) Anabarskiy, Bulunskiy, Verkhoyanskiy, cryolithic zone on the earth.
Republic with the square of 1 608,8 Zhiganskiy, Momskiy, Nizhnekolymskiy, The reports made on the Round Table
thousand square km (52,2% of the republic Olenekskiy, Srednekolymskiy, Ust’-Yanskiy, uncovered the coldness impact on a
territory, the number of the permanent Eveno-Bytantayskiy and Verkhnekolymskiy. person and the peculiarities of the Arctic
population was 69 395 people (7,3% of the The second approach is to include Oimyakon circumpolar civilisation comprehensively.
republic population). Complex natural and ulus, the Cold Pole, into the borders of the Arctic PhD in Philosophy S.V. Shachin from
climatic conditions, the vulnerability of the zone in the Russian Federation. The head of this the Arctic State University spoke about
traditional lifestyle, the small number of the ulus M.M. Zahkarov gave arguments in favour the necessity to organise mobile creative
Northern peoples stipulated the necessity of the inclusion of Oimyakon ulus into the communities developing new technologies
to form a specific state policy concerning Arctic zone. His position was supported by the in correspondence with the values of nature
the sustainable development and providing Doctor of Law T.S. Ivanova, PhD in Geography and people’s preservation. The leading
the systematic measures on keeping the Y. G. Danilov, and the representatives of the philosophers and culture experts from St.
distinctive culture, traditional way of life, Russian Geographic Society. Petersburg A.-K.I. Zabulionite and L.K.
and original habitat of these peoples. The third approach means including the Kruglova reflected upon the possibility of
That is why I would like to point out 3 whole territories belonged to the Sakha multi-civilisations identity, the integrity
approaches to the Arctic zone definition in (Yakutia) Republic into the Arctic zone of of humanitarian knowledge about the life
respect to the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic. the Russian Federation. in the Arctic.
The first approach is implemented by the The executive of the Polar Commission
republican and the Russian government now. THE PHENOMENON OF THE in the Marine Council affiliated to Saint-
The Arctic Circle line of 66°33' of the Northern CRYOLITHIC ZONE PERSON Petersburg government, PhD in Technical
latitude was defined as a criterion of the The whole Yakutia’s science is directed Sciences M.V. Minina concentrated on the
Southern borders in the Arctic zone. It includes at providing the overcoming of the creation of conditions for the investment
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