(Graphic: Sofia Antonova) The route Friday, 29th of July 2014

 

We arrived on Samoylov Island! Just two days of traveling, it was never so fast! :)

I used again the opportunity to visit my home city - Novokuznetsk, that is why I started from Germany one week earlier and came to Yakutsk from Novosibirsk. The rest of our team arrived from Berlin through Moscow.

Yakutsk airport hosted me for 10 long hours. After three hours of lonely stay I was happy to greet my colleagues and life became much better!

 

Together with Julia and Anne we visited Permafrost Institut where our dear friend Michail Grigoriev presented us some books and made an excursion for us to the underground lab, within the permafrost. At the entrance you could get a fur coat to feel comfortable in the -8 degrees rooms.

(Photo: J. Boike) Inside the permafrost: Mikhail Grigoriev shows us the underground laboratories.The flight to Tiksi was surprisingly in time. Right form the airport we were driven to the river dock where we embarked on the vessel "405 Puteyskiy". We knew it already from the last year – it brought us from Samoylov to Tiksi.

 

It was nice to see this crew again and even the small ugly dog, although I'm not sure they were also happy to see us :).

 

We all were so much tired and occupied every peace of horizontal surface to lay down and sleep. I got the window shelf and was very satisfied with it!

In 10 hours we arrived on Samoylov. It was 5 a.m.

 

(Photo: A. Morgenstern) Sleeping on the ship.The wonderful breakfast was already waiting for us, we got our rooms (I'm lucky to get even the same bed as I had two previous times) and immediately fell asleep.