This museum in the Arctic Circle or in Russia or in the world there are no analogues . Create your own in one of the dungeons Igarka permafrost station from the 1930s studying permafrost and its properties . The deepest point of the mine is at a depth of 14 meters from the surface . But first you will enter a small exhibition hall where the guide will tell you that 65 percent of the territory of our country is just that permafrost . By the way , at the exhibition center there is a children's House of Crafts . Little s visitors are taught pottery . was purchased the potter's wheel and used clay from the museum's dungeon, which is cleaned by drying in the winter .

Then you begin the descent into the dungeon . The thicker permafrost temperature is nearly constant - minus 4 degrees . And here at the top - all -15 ° C, so that the walls of the building are covered with hoarfrost . In several rooms are represented frozen in the ice plates of plant samples, lie pieces of ice from the Yenisei and Ice Mountain - the place of the manifestation of buried ice by age about 50 thousand years! In one of the drifts tree trunks protrude from the wall - 70 thousand years ago they were buried under a layer of sand and clay and were frozen by a permafrost . In one of the cells, "Father Frost's house" was made specially for children .

The museum's foundation date is considered to be March 19, 1965, just then the exposition devoted to permafrost and the history of its study was opened for public visit to the laboratory. However, the official status of the museum of local lore was received only on July 1, 1991, and four years later, in 1995 - the local lore complex. In the same year, the underground part of the museum was recognized as a nature monument of regional importance.

In 2009, the museum staff came up with the idea - to arrange weddings! The very first couple who participated in the wedding ceremony were tourists from the UK. From the museum, they received a birch bark from memory, on which the wishes of eternal love, as eternal as permafrost in these lands, were inscribed. Fans of extreme sports, perhaps, will appreciate such know-how, only the bride in the dress and shoes will be clearly cold. By the way, advice - dress up for a hike here in winter.

How to get to Igarka

To get to the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and here is the city of Igarka, you can only by plane. Naval vessels also go, but they transport cargo and workers' watches to oil fields. The way through the air will take a lot of time, as it will take a transfer - you can fly through Krasnoyarsk or Surgut. Tickets from 13 000 rubles. And this is still a cheap option.

Practical information

Permafrost Museum is open daily from 9 am to 5 pm, except Saturday. Phone: (39 172) 2-30-11; address: Igarka, st. B. Theater, 15-a; Opening hours: daily from 9.00 to 17.00, except Saturday; cost of tickets: for an adult - 345 rubles, this is with an excursion, preschoolers - free of charge, for older children - half price, every first Friday of the month - free of charge.

Prices are indicated in March 2013.

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Parade crystals Museum of Permafrost in Igarka

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