It was my first but not the last trip to Romania and to make sure of this I buried a little coin at the mountain camp in order to return there and find it. I was invited to the CRIOSFERA symposium to get to know the amazing history of Romanian polar research and to explore […]

It was summer last year when I saw a post on Facebook from Jillian Worssam – an amazing person from the Flagstaff Unified School District, Arizona – about the educational project “Scientists in the classroom”. I was very much excited and interested because education and outreach should be an integral component of any kind of […]

Our station was founded in early 1948 and has more than 50 years of history! Actually we will celebrate our 65th Anniversary at the end of April this year. The industrial exploration of the Kola Peninsula began in the 1920’s and a lot of scientists from all over Russia, including Moscow University, came to help […]

This post is the result of the work with Sami communities within the station and devoted to the personal research insight. What’s traditional knowledge? Why is it so important and so popular today? and Who has it? All these questions may pop up in your head from time to time, yet have you ever given […]

It appears that our station has no acronyms that are popular in the scientific world. Thanks to the INTERACT team, now we are just simply called KHIBINY. So, what does this great Sami name mean? First, we have a huge Moscow State University named after the outstanding Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov. It’s one of the […]