Expeditions
Greenland expedition
In 1988, Viktor Boyarsky, as part of an international expedition led by Will Steeger, crossed Greenland from south to north, covering more than 2000 km in 65 days. The Greenland Expedition was organized as a training session before the Transantarctic Expedition. The path was covered by dog sledding and skiing.
Expedition members
- Will Steeger (USA)
- Jean-Louis Etienne (France)
- Jeff Somers (UK)
- Keizo Funatsu (Japan)
- Chin Daho (China)
- Victor Boyarsky (USSR)
Transantarctic
In 1989-1990. Viktor Boyarsky was a member of the international expedition "Transantarctic". Not just a participant, but its leader. Passing over them almost every day when flying from st. "Mirny Observatory" to Vostok station and back, from the cockpit of our expeditionary IL-14 we saw that it was Victor (Victor's dimensions and clothes cannot be confused) on skis and with a navigator on his chest, and not in carts, in front of all the participants, including very smart and hardy dogs.
Bibliography
- Seven months of infinity
- Greenland meridian
- Each of us has our own pole
- NWT. Three travels in the Canadian Arctic
- Creation of Ellesmere.
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- Greenland meridian, Boyarsky Victor. Viktor Ilyich Boyarsky is a legendary Russian polar explorer. In 1987 he was chosen as the representative of the USSR in the largest international expedition "Transantarctic". This expedition, ...
A well-known Russian polar traveler, an honorary polar explorer of Russia, chairman of the Polar Commission of the Russian Geographical Society, a member of the National Geographic Society of the United States, a full member of the National Academy of Tourism and the International Academy of Refrigeration, PhD in Physics and Mathematics, a member of the Writers' Union of Russia.
After graduating from the radio engineering faculty of the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute named after V.I. V. I. Ulyanova (Lenina) worked as a researcher at the Department of Ice and Ocean Physics at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, dealing with the problem of radar sounding of snow and ice covers of the Arctic and Antarctic. In the period from 1973 to 1987, he took part in the work of scientific teams of four Soviet Antarctic expeditions, including in pioneering work on the study of the possibility of creating an ice neutrino detector at the inland station "Vostok", wintered at the drifting station "North Pole - 24", studying investigation of the problem of remote measurement of thickness sea ice, participated in the work of radiophysical teams in the high-latitude scientific expeditions "Sever".
In 1987, V. Boyarsky was included from the USSR in the International Expedition "Transantarctic", timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty - an international agreement signed by 12 states (including the USSR) and defining the status of Antarctica as a continent of peace and cooperation ... During the preparation of the expedition in 1988, an international team, which, in addition to V. Boyarsky, included representatives of the USA, Great Britain, Japan, France and China, crossed the island of Greenland from south to north on skis and dog sleds, having covered a route more than 2000 km long in 65 days. V. Boyarsky became the first Russian to cross Greenland on skis. This expedition - the second in history crossing of the world's largest island along the meridian - became the prologue of the historical international expedition "Transantarctic", in which V. Boyarsky represented Leningrad and the Soviet Union. During 221 days from July 1989 to March 1990, six members of the expedition, skiing and dog sledding, for the first time in the history of Antarctica's exploration, crossed the ice continent along the longest route and covered 6500 km without the use of mechanical means. Most of the route V. Boyarsky went ahead. Expedition "Transantarctic" and its participants are included in the Guinness Book of Records. In March - June 1990, the members of the expedition were received by the presidents of France, the USA, China and the prime ministers of Japan and the USSR.
In 1992-1994, V. Boyarsky, together with the American W. Steeger, conducted three expeditions in the Canadian Arctic to prepare an international expedition from Russia to Canada through the North Pole within the framework of the International Arctic Project. The expedition, called "Double Pole - 95", took place from March to July 1995. For four months, the expedition members, among whom, in addition to V. Boyarsky and U. Stieger, were representatives of Great Britain, Denmark and Japan, covered more than 2000 km from the shores of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago to the shores of Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic archipelago.
Since 1994, V. Boyarsky has been leading and coordinating the efforts of the polar community aimed at preserving the only in the country and one of the largest in Europe Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic, which was threatened with eviction from the building of the former church of the same faith, which he occupied since its foundation, which would inevitably lead to actual destruction of the unique exposition. These efforts culminated in the revival of the museum in 1998 with the new status of the Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic. V. Boyarsky becomes its first director. In the period from 1997 to 2013, he organized and led more than 25 ski expeditions to the North Pole, led, as an expeditionary leader, 30 voyages of nuclear icebreakers to the North Pole. In 1999, he headed the St. Petersburg team that planted the city's flag at the North Pole. During this time, V. Boyarsky visited the North Pole more than 60 times and in 2007 was awarded the title "The most polar Petersburg citizen".
Since 1994, V. Boyarsky has headed the Polar Commission of the Russian Geographical Society. In the period from 1991 to 2010, V. Boyarsky wrote and published five books: "Seven Months of Infinity", "Greenland Meridian", a collection of poems "Each of us has our own Pole", "Three Voyages in the Canadian Arctic" and "The Creation of Ellesmere ". Since 2005, V. Boyarsky, together with the expeditionary center of the Russian Geographical Society "Polyus", has been participating in the implementation of the international project "Barneo", within the framework of which an ice airfield and a field camp are annually built in the North Pole region for the implementation of programs extreme tourism and scientific observations carried out by both domestic and foreign scientists.
In September 2002, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, V. Boyarsky was awarded a medal to the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree. For his contribution to the development of polar science in 2008, V. Boyarsky was awarded the Order of B. Vilkitsky and the badge "Honorary Worker of the Hydrometeorological Service".
He, who crossed the Arctic Ocean and Greenland on dog sleds, would live at ease on the pages of Jack London's books or among the heroes-polar explorers of the times of Papanin and Chkalov. But Boyarsky is our contemporary: scientist and traveler, holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, head of the only polar museum in the country and owner of a unique tourism business.
How did your business start?
In the early 1990s, I worked at the Research Institute of the Arctic and Antarctic, engaged in radio glaciology, a discipline that studies snow and ice in all its manifestations. This, you know, was an unfavorable time for science. When it became clear that everything was falling apart, my friends and I organized a business in the area that we know and love, to which we dedicated our lives. This is how the Vikaar travel agency appeared, which organizes commercial and scientific tours to the North and South Poles.
What services does your company provide?
Variety. Firstly, ski tours, they can last from several hours to eighteen days - this, of course, is for the most hardy, able to live in a tent for a long time, cook their own food on a gasoline stove and endure such cold, which freezes everything, even adrenaline. Secondly, diving in the Arctic Ocean: you will not see any fauna there, but the under-ice world of the ocean with its caves and grottoes is also something fantastic. You can jump with a parachute to the pole. You can just fly there for two hours and see what the pole is - this is the most budgetary tour, it costs about nine thousand euros. And, of course, we help various scientific organizations to conduct polar research.
There are probably many celebrities among your clients.
A lot. The entire Duma elite, the famous oil industrialist and collector of eggs Faberge Victor Vekselberg, Prince Albert of Monaco ... We later met the latter in Switzerland, I rushed to hug him. “Why,” I say, “didn’t you come to see me in Petersburg?” Well, his security quickly reminded me that he is a prince! I forgot, because at the North Pole everyone is equal, just like in the bathhouse, only everyone is dressed.
Are weather conditions interfering with your tour?
They can. This is a great difficulty in our business: due to whims the weather, the state of the ice is difficult for us to do tours regularly. Although, on the other hand, some dependence on nature adds extreme to travel.
Does your business activity intersect with that of the museum?
All museum employees are travel agency employees at the same time, this allows you to retain professionals, resolve the issue of salaries and many other problems.
You took over as director of the museum in 1998. Have you changed anything in his work?
I think the main thing that I did was to preserve the museum for the city and the country. Because in the 1990s, there were many hotheads who wanted to take the building away from us. Once it housed the Nikolskaya Church of the Same Faith - for the Old Believers who came under the jurisdiction of the Synod. After the revolution, in 1937, the unparalleled Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic was opened here. With the collapse of the USSR, they wanted to return the building to the churches, but no one was going to provide for the exhibits any other premises adapted for their storage. I had to go through several ships to save our funds. Now we have all the official documents on hand to make us feel confident.
Do you have a favorite exhibit in the museum?
I like objects that read human destinies. For example, we have a small pencil-drawn map Northern Land, made by the remarkable Soviet geologist Nikolai Nikolaevich Urvantsev. The huge archipelago was quickly mapped by an expedition, where, in addition to Urvantsev, there were only three people! Behind these pencil lines there is such a titanic work that I never dreamed of.
Who should thank you for becoming a traveler?
To my father and Jack London. Dad was a sailor, talked a lot about his service, and, of course, I also wanted to see other countries. And Jack London described dog sledding so contagiously!
During the Transarctic Polar Expedition, your comrades gave you the nickname Magic Touch. I wonder why?
To be honest, they were amazed at my ability to render very reliable items unusable with a single touch. Knowing this peculiarity behind me, I took seven thermometers on the road so that in the end there would be at least one. The reputation of a general breaker has survived to this day, although, I must say, I repaired what did not work well.
Some philosophers are inclined to believe that conflicts of the future will arise over Antarctica: here are untouched mineral and water resources that the inhabitants of densely populated continents lack. Do you think their predictions can come true?
I think no. If the mass of ice in Antarctica remains the same as it is now - and there is reason to believe that it is even growing - then there can be no question of industrial development of fossils, since it will be completely unprofitable, will require colossal costs and revolutionary breakthroughs in technology. Now, as you know, a fifty-year moratorium has been declared on this kind of development, and I think it will be extended.
