State Polar Academy – the idea of establishing the Polar Academy appeared in 1990 in course of the first Soviet-French Expedition in Chukotka, which was conducted under the auspices of the city of Leningrad (USSR). The Soviet Cultural Fund and the French Center for Arctic Research participated in the process of the expedition organization. The equipment for this international expedition was provided by the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (USSR). In 1991 St. Petersburg saw the establishment of the Academy’s predecessor, the Arctic Circle Organization. Its international study center was first to prepare the national managing personnel for the Northern regions, Siberia, and the Russian Far East.
Starting from 1992 the Center stayed under the auspices of the National Administration School of France. Then the Russian party signed the contract for long-term cooperation with the French School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. The International study center became the place...
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(2016). State Polar Academy. In: Zonn, I.S., Kostianoy, A.G., Semenov, A.V. (eds) The Eastern Arctic Seas Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia of Seas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24237-8_502
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