The exposition of exhibits from the bottom of the Kara Sea was opened on board of the icebreaker-museum “Krasin”

In Saint Petersburg the participants of the Kara search expedition of 2015 presented unique exhibits taken from ships and vessels that had died in the years of the Great Patriotic War in the Kara Sea.

Among them there are: the bell and the telegraph machine from the transport “Marina Raskova”, the ship’s bell from the icebreaking steamer “Alexander Sibiryakov”, as it is informed on the website of the representational office of Yamal in Saint Petersburg. The exhibition of the project “Kara Sea expeditions” dedicated to the 71st anniversary of the Great Victory was opened on the 29th of April on board of the legendary icebreaker-museum “Krasin”. Guests of the exhibition can see unique items taken from the ships “Marina Raskova” and “Alexander Sibiryakov” that had died heroically during the war, and also findings from Beliy Island in the Kara Sea. Unique photographs and video materials of the researches and also children’s drawings made on the basis of the project are presented on the exhibition. The project “Kara Sea Expeditions” is the joint project of the company “Fertoing” and the Russian Geographical Society at support of the government of Yamal on immortalization of the memory of people, who worked and struggled in the years of the Great Patriotic War in the Arctic. During the work in 2014 in waters of the Kara Sea the Russian researchers managed to find the lost ships “Marina Raskova” and “Alexander Sibiryakov” and to set their precise coordinates. In 2015 the found vessels were examined by divers and a remotely operated underwater vehicle. The researchers were able to identify ships and to raise the historical objects from the bottom: the ship’s bells, the telegraph machine, the elements of the wheel and machine guns. On Beliy Island the searchers found and buried the remains of thirteen dead sailors of the Arctic convoy “White Sea – Dikson 5”.