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Wed, 08/19/2009 - 15:09
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Yamal icebreaker to set out on voyage to the Arctic Wed.
ST PETERSBURG, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - A polar expedition aboard the nuclear-powered icebreaker Yamal sets out from Murmansk on Wednesday on a voyage to the Arctic to remove from ice the staff of the North Pole-36 (SP-36) floe station, who have completed their year-long drift and set up a new polar research floe-station SP-37 in high latitudes, Sergei Balyasnikov, assistant to the director of the Rosgidromet (Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring) Arctic and Antarctic research institute (AANII), coordinator of the sea expedition, has told Itar-Tass.
The ship will carry 48 participants in the sea operation from the
AANII, seven pilots of ice reconnasissance helicopter Mi-8MT, as well as
16 members of the SP-37 polar research expedition, equipment for the
winter camp, transport vehicles, and stocks of fuel and food. The
scientist specified, "The icebreaker's planned time of departure from the
polar port is 16:00 Moscow time".
The expedition expects to reach the area of the SP-36 drift, 240 km
from the northern coast of Greenland tentatively on August 22. Sixteen
polar research staff from SP-36 are to board the icebreaker, load camp
equipment, and collect technical refuse. This will take three to four
days, Balyasnikov said. Then theYamal will head to the eastern sector of
the Arctic to put the SP-37 polar research staff onto a floe on September
2 in an area to the north of Wrangel Island.
.Sakhalin man wins bronze at world taekwondo tourney.
YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - Mikhail An, a resident of
Sakhalin Island, has won the bronze medal at the 18th world tournament,
The World Taekwondo Hanmadang-2009.
The competitions, held in the city of Dangjin (Republic of Korea)
involved representatives of 54 countries. Mikhail An performed in an event
to break hard objects (tile sheets) by means of palm edge, an official in
the press service of the Sakhalin Region Committee for Physical Culture
and Sports has told Itar-Tass.
In the final Mikhail An broke eleven tiles out of fifteen with one
blow. A similar number of objects were smashed by a sportsman from the
Republic of Korea. However, referees perceived some infractions of the
rules in the Sakhalin residrnt's techniue. Therefore his result shifted
one line downward in the rating list. The gold medal went to Ali Bekkerei,
representative of Turkey, who had to his credit 12 tiles broken.
Two years ago, at the World Taekwondo Hanmadang-2007, Mikhail An had
won the gold by breaking fifteen tiles with one blow.
.Robots used in search for survivors in flooded turbine hall.
SAYANO-SHUSHENSKOYE HPS (Khakassia), August 19 (Itar-Tass) - Robots
are being also used along with scuba divers in the search for survivors in
the flooded turbine hall of the Sayano-Shushenskoye hydropower station,
Russian Minister for Emergencies Sergei Shoigu announced during a working
conference here on Wednesday.
Shoigu pointed out, "Medium- and lightweight robots have begun to
operate underwater". The Minister emphasized that all rescue parties seek
to find people in the flooded turbine hall. A large number of scuba divers
are at work as well.
"Sounding and knocking are being resorted to, with survey through
ventilation systems with a view to finding people," Shoigu said. The work
is going on uninterruptedly, he added.
The death toll as of now is 12.
.Polluted areas of Yenissei river to be treated by reactants.
SAYANO-SHUSHENSKOYE HPS (KHAKASSIA), August 19 (Itar-Tass) -
Helicopters of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (RME) are to treat
with reactants the Yenissei River areas polluted as a result of the leak
of oil following the breakdown at the HPS, Minister for Emergencies Sergei
Shoigu announced during a working conference here on Wednesday.
"Three helicopters with special installations for the spraying of
reactants in places of concentration of oil slicks in the Yenissei River
have been readied," Shoigu said.
The Minister set a task of determining which part of the river water
areas can be treated within a day and how many square metres each
helicopter can treat.
The ship will carry 48 participants in the sea operation from the
AANII, seven pilots of ice reconnasissance helicopter Mi-8MT, as well as
16 members of the SP-37 polar research expedition, equipment for the
winter camp, transport vehicles, and stocks of fuel and food. The
scientist specified, "The icebreaker's planned time of departure from the
polar port is 16:00 Moscow time".
The expedition expects to reach the area of the SP-36 drift, 240 km
from the northern coast of Greenland tentatively on August 22. Sixteen
polar research staff from SP-36 are to board the icebreaker, load camp
equipment, and collect technical refuse. This will take three to four
days, Balyasnikov said. Then theYamal will head to the eastern sector of
the Arctic to put the SP-37 polar research staff onto a floe on September
2 in an area to the north of Wrangel Island.
.Sakhalin man wins bronze at world taekwondo tourney.
YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, August 19 (Itar-Tass) - Mikhail An, a resident of
Sakhalin Island, has won the bronze medal at the 18th world tournament,
The World Taekwondo Hanmadang-2009.
The competitions, held in the city of Dangjin (Republic of Korea)
involved representatives of 54 countries. Mikhail An performed in an event
to break hard objects (tile sheets) by means of palm edge, an official in
the press service of the Sakhalin Region Committee for Physical Culture
and Sports has told Itar-Tass.
In the final Mikhail An broke eleven tiles out of fifteen with one
blow. A similar number of objects were smashed by a sportsman from the
Republic of Korea. However, referees perceived some infractions of the
rules in the Sakhalin residrnt's techniue. Therefore his result shifted
one line downward in the rating list. The gold medal went to Ali Bekkerei,
representative of Turkey, who had to his credit 12 tiles broken.
Two years ago, at the World Taekwondo Hanmadang-2007, Mikhail An had
won the gold by breaking fifteen tiles with one blow.
.Robots used in search for survivors in flooded turbine hall.
SAYANO-SHUSHENSKOYE HPS (Khakassia), August 19 (Itar-Tass) - Robots
are being also used along with scuba divers in the search for survivors in
the flooded turbine hall of the Sayano-Shushenskoye hydropower station,
Russian Minister for Emergencies Sergei Shoigu announced during a working
conference here on Wednesday.
Shoigu pointed out, "Medium- and lightweight robots have begun to
operate underwater". The Minister emphasized that all rescue parties seek
to find people in the flooded turbine hall. A large number of scuba divers
are at work as well.
"Sounding and knocking are being resorted to, with survey through
ventilation systems with a view to finding people," Shoigu said. The work
is going on uninterruptedly, he added.
The death toll as of now is 12.
.Polluted areas of Yenissei river to be treated by reactants.
SAYANO-SHUSHENSKOYE HPS (KHAKASSIA), August 19 (Itar-Tass) -
Helicopters of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (RME) are to treat
with reactants the Yenissei River areas polluted as a result of the leak
of oil following the breakdown at the HPS, Minister for Emergencies Sergei
Shoigu announced during a working conference here on Wednesday.
"Three helicopters with special installations for the spraying of
reactants in places of concentration of oil slicks in the Yenissei River
have been readied," Shoigu said.
The Minister set a task of determining which part of the river water
areas can be treated within a day and how many square metres each
helicopter can treat.
