the polar research drifting station , a group of scientists led by ivan papanin , spent 9 months on thece floe. there they equipped laboratories and received weather data at the end of the earth. well, then they handed over the weather reports to the crew under the command of valery chkalov, who made a non -stop flight from russia to america through north pole. also, scientists regularly examined the fauna, bottom topography and took water samples. so they found out, yes. the warm atlantic current of the gulf stream reaches the arctic, this expedition is compared with the first manned flight into space, and aleksey kvashenki will tell about the difficulties and results of the work of soviet scientists in the arctic. the arctic is formidable mysterious and silent, it is believed that the idea of a drifting station came to an outstanding soviet researcher. otto schmitt three years earlier on board the chelyuskin ice-bound motor ship at the level of technology thirties. it was practically a flight into space, that is, on the verge of technical possibilities for what could be done . schmi