Moscow University’s field station in the Khibiny Mountains, Russian Arctic: A 70-year history to the present day

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The Khibiny Educational and Scientific Station (KESS) of the Faculty of Geography, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), was founded in 1948. It is one of the oldest stations of the MSU Faculty of Geography and the only one located...

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Main Authors: Vikulina, MA, Vashchalova, TV, Tutubalina, OV, Rees, WG, Zaika, YV
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2021
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Online Access:https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/316524
https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.63632
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Summary:<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The Khibiny Educational and Scientific Station (KESS) of the Faculty of Geography, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), was founded in 1948. It is one of the oldest stations of the MSU Faculty of Geography and the only one located north of the Arctic Circle. It is also one of the oldest continuously operating arctic field stations in the world. For more than 70 years, the research station has fostered scientific and international collaboration. Science and education carried out at the station have always gone hand in hand and the research results have been both theoretical and practical. Many generations of Russian geographers owe their successful careers to the research activities at the Khibiny station. Nowadays, it is one of the two major student training bases for the Faculty of Geography as well as a focal point of many national and international research projects, including the International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic (INTERACT) network.</jats:p> British Council; Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation