Tag - Russian Geographical Soiety

Polar explorer Fyodor Shipulin: “When you’re in Antarctica, you really want to go where it’s summer and there is green grass”

Kazan Federal University hosted a meeting with Fyodor Shipulin, an anesthesiologist and mountaineer who participated in the 69th Russian Antarctic Expedition. Students and schoolchildren of various ages, from first graders to eleventh graders, gathered at KFU's UNICS sports complex to hear the fascinating story of how a doctor became a polar explorer and what challenges he...