Russia (bbabo.net), - The Central Museum of Tavrida has opened an exhibition dedicated to the installation project of the "Crimean Spit" on the southernmost continent of the Earth.
Member of the Antarctic expeditions, pilot instructor Ivan Borisov told how the idea of installing a geographic index was born. While visiting the Progress station in Antarctica, he noticed a sign with arrows indicating directions and distances to different cities. But there was no sign with the direction "Crimea".
Then Borisov coordinated the installation of such an arrow with the leadership of the Institute of the Arctic and Antarctic during the upcoming expedition. For help, he turned to the Crimean plant "Fiolent", where in the shortest possible time they created a unique sign depicting the contours of the peninsula and indicating the distance from Antarctica to Simferopol - 13,178 kilometers.
Viktor Kislitsyn, deputy general director of the plant, explained that the Krymskaya Strelka was made from a special alloy obtained by the laser method so that the structure could withstand frosts down to minus 70 degrees and withstand strong winds.
The arrow was shipped from the factory on December 30, 2020, and already on January 6, 2021, it was on the ship Akademik Fedorov. According to the polar explorer, the journey to the Progress station through the equator - the "roaring forties and frantic fifties" latitudes - was interesting and not easy. The sign was installed in Antarctica at 13.30 Moscow time on March 26, 2021.
“I would like Crimeans to be known both at the north and south poles, in those places where people from all over the world work,” Borisov admitted.
The exposition includes original photographs of the pointer's journey from the Crimea to Antarctica, as well as many other interesting items. For example, the door of the legendary Il-2 aircraft, on which food was delivered to polar explorers in the 1950s in the Antarctic and the Arctic. There is also a propeller from an aircraft stuck in the ice, made at the Kerch plant in 1982, as well as a fragment of a petrified tree several tens of millions of years old.
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