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In the photo: the participants of the Round Table Session on 30th November 2017 in v. Oimyakon, where the Recommendation was accepted to support arguments in favour of the inclusion of Oimyakon ulus into the list of territories
composing the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation.
apart, endangering the whole humanity. on ecology and person’s values, living in the and the 80th anniversary of the First
The negative consequences of warming is cryolithic zone and the Cold Pole territory President of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic
evident in very Yakutia now: more than 80% as well as to introduce this problematics into M.Y. Nikolaev guiding all the gathered with
of lands, where the agricultural regions are the educational process, science, and culture. words: “The Arctic is the treasure chest of
located, suffer from soil settlement on 10-14 We also tend to expand the frontier of Russia’s the cultural values, original and absolutely
sm per year. The contraction of the protection Arctic zone with the inclusion of Oymyakon harmonious with the nature, civilisation, the
forests area contributes to it as well. Besides, ulus and, if possible, all Yakutia’s territory. values of which will become prioritised for
the Arctic region becomes the epicentre of Co-Organisers were the Federal Council the mankind development in prospect”.
energy, ecological, and geopolitical interests Committee on the Federal Structure, Regional The deputies of the law-making bodies,
of civilisations and leading powers in Big Policy, Local Government, and Northern the heads of the executive ones, and
Eurasia and North America in early 21 Affairs, the State Assembly (Il Tuman) of the the subjects of the Russian Federation
century. In the Arctic zone, there is the bulk Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, the Arctic State participated in the Round Table. Besides,
of the prospect carbohydrates resources, Institute of Culture and Art, Churapchinskiy there were present the head of Oimyakon
the exploitation of which is going on with State Institute of Physical Culture and Art, ulus M. M. Zakharov, leading scientists
priority rates. This circumstance endangers The International Institute P. Sorokina – N. of various academic organisations, the
the unique Arctic ecosystem. That is why the Condratieva and Saint-Petersburg Arctic chancellors and tutors of universities and
Yakut have to pass their worry and care to the Public Academy of Science. The Round Table institutes, the representatives of the social
Russian administration and then to the world Opening was greeted by A. K. Akimov, the organisations in the Arctic territories of the
community. member of the Federal Council in Russia’s Russian Federation, and etc.
The Round Table aim is to draw the attention Federal Assembly, the representatives of the Scientists were invited as key speakers for
of lawmakers, all levels of administration, the RF Ministry of Education and Science and the participation in the Round Table. They
academic publicity, the mass media, and the Ministry of Sports. study civilisations deeply and in a creative
civil society to the global changes of the Arctic The Round Table Session was devoted to way through an angle of a cold factor,
climate. Another goal is to show their impact the Ecology Year in the Russian Federation implementing their ideas in the educational
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