Its site www.kandalaksha-reserve.org seems to have fallen into neglect. Below are bits related to the nature reserve but I cannot put together a systematic presentation. Look for an old copy of the Russian site here >>. E-mails intended for the reserve can be sent to its official address kand_reserve@mail.ru although I will not rate the probability of a meaningful response as “significant”.
This small museum was established in 1957. Since then it was visited by over 200 th.
Lighthouse Foundation, a German organization that effectively promotes sustainable development of the coastal areas around the world, has listed the collection of funds for the printing of my mate Alexandra’s book on the relationship between Eider ducks and Man throughout history among its projects.
Here is the beginning of their page on Alexandra’s Eider book:
This is the world’s first popular science publication dedicated to the world-wide history of the relation of Man (Homo sapiens) and the Common eider (Somateria mollissima): from the eiders in the excavations of ancient human settlements to the eiders in art; from myths and legends to the latest scientific research; from the eiders as hunting trophies to them in the museum collections.
Read more at the Lighthouse Foundation site >>
Those wishing to make a contribution towards the printing of the book will find banking information to the right of the Eider page on the Lighthouse Foundation site.
The new film, entitled “This Cold North”, was shot by our friend and colleague, a biologist, photographer, and local history expert Gennady Alexandrov back in 1996 but just was released now. The focus of it is the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve..
An article on the history of eider farming attempts in the USSR, written by my mate Alexandra (and translated by me) has very recently come out in an Environmental and Society Portal “Arcadia“.
Comments that you can leave under the article are welcomed and invited.
To read “Eider Farming Attempts in the USSR and Why These Failed” proceed here.
Today we went to the “Nature Reserve Format” film festival in Kandalaksha. The best film shown, in the opinion of many, was “A Lake in the Sea”.
Just noticed that it is available on the Youtube with English subtitles, and am thus sharing it with you..
Dalniye Zelentsy is a village on the Barents Sea coast, 170km east from Murmansk.
From 1935 to the beginning of the 1990s the Murmansk Biological Station (from 1958 the Biological Station of the Murmansk Sea Biology Institute) was active there. The purmanent population of the village was about 600, which included both scientists and technical personnel from among the locals. Presently the biological station is abandoned, and about 10 permanently live there. Some biologists visit the station in the summer. more >>
The Kandalaksha Nature Reserve Museum is showing films on the reserve every Saturday at 1pm. Free!! The address is ulitsa Lineynaya 35. For more information call +7 (81533) 93303.
The films are
It is a reserve set up recently, at the end of the 90s, where Russia, Finland, and Norway meet. Found by Alexandra. Enjoy..
At 4pm the Local History Section of the Kandalaksha Public Library (ul. Pervomayskaya 51, tel. 8 (815-33) 9-21-92) presents Vitaly Bianki, Ph.D., a senior scientist at the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve, a Honorary Ecologist of the Russian Federation, and a Honorary Citizen of Kandalaksha.
The meeting is held in honor of the 90th birthday of Vitaly Bianki and 60 years of his working at the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve.
On head notice a Russian-to-English interpreter will be available at low or no fee.