A year ago, the participants of the 2nd round of the unique international creative competition FusioNNow launched by Norilsk Nickel company spent three busy days on the Kola Peninsula.
The painters, travellers, famous personalities from 5 countries of the world - Japan, Australia, Italy, Denmark, Russia - visited the Kola Peninsula and told how the industry contributes to the development of the region.
On the first day, the participants of the Polar Night Tour arrived at the Rayakoski village and visited the Ecological School at the unique Pasvik Reserve. The reserve is located in the extreme northwest of Russia, at the junction of three borders - Russia, Finland and Norway. Only the Reserve employees have access to the Pasvik Reserve, and visitors need a special permit to enter it. The bird and animal observation and environmental monitoring are carried out within the Reserve every day. Together with the reserve staff, the participants in the FusioNNow project walked through the snow-covered forest in search of animal tracks, they measured the height of the snow - at that time, a 48-cm layer of snow had already fallen in the taiga.