this trip takes place within the framework of the arctic floating university educational program, whichya is gloomy, harsh, deserted, but at all times attracting travelers and researchers. according to one version, the archipelago was discovered by novgorod merchants in the twelfth-thirteenth centuries at the end of the sixteenth century. here in search of the shortest passage to asia three times, the dutch navigator willem barins went here, it was he who compiled the first maps of the archipelago and installed its length north to south is almost 1,000 km. this is the distance, for example, from moscow to samara. this is the russian harbor bay in 1932. the polar station of the same name was opened here for carrying out meteorological observations. from year to year, the polar explorers' household multiplied on the shore, residential buildings grew up , and a radio room was installed. bathhouses, warehouses for food and firewood , quite often the real owner of the arctic field group designated their rights to the territory. and this was probably such a unique case within the framework of