The implementation of this project will be handled by the Museum of the World Ocean and the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, which signed an agreement on September 21 within the framework of the V International Fisheries Forum in St. Petersburg.
"Our institute has accumulated a solid bank of materials based on the results of scientific expeditions, research and the implementation of special projects," said Kirill Kolonchin, Director of VNIRO.
Among them are the Transarctic passage from Vladivostok to Murmansk through 5 Arctic seas, the Transantarctic expedition to study aquatic biological resources, timed to the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica, a scientific program that has no analogues in the world dedicated to the release of marine mammals from the so-called "whale prison" into natural habitat, and much more.
"We did not share these materials with the public, as we used them for scientific purposes. And now, together with the Museum of the World Ocean, we will prepare a large multimedia project dedicated to the ocean and its inhabitants," he said.
"The need to create a marine media library as a result of the implementation of scientific projects aimed at preserving, studying and popularizing the marine heritage of Russia was noted in the resolutions of the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Problems of Studying and Preserving the Marine Heritage" and the Interdepartmental Commission on Marine Cultural Heritage of the Maritime Board under the Government of the Russian Federation in 2021," said the Director General of the Museum of the World Ocean Svetlana Sivkova.
The project will be implemented in 2023.
VNIRO Press Service
Press Service of the World Ocean Museum