Show plenty of life in areti arctic C area russians russians nus discover birds and animals seen by soviet scientists moscow U S S R an intimate picture of what s scientists voluntarily mar marooned boned in the wastes of the arctic do and how they feel has just been released by the official soviet news agency in a report from 1 I mazaruk Ma heading a group of explorers remaining with an airplane on rudolf island franz joseph land mazaruk Ma one of the few holders of the soviets highest decoration the order of lenin for or previous researches has remained with a group of fellows designed to maintain contact with fellow soviet explorers at atthe the north pole ile he reports we est established ablis hed regular air air communications between rudolf island der here the afie winterers winter ers have to work very hard burthey but they are experienced arctic explorers despite the very conditions they live well antwork and work with casion life at the pole through mazaruk Ma the north pole party reported recently the drift of our for the LIZA last ten days was rather peculiar we made a loop and found ourselves in the same place where we were weeks ago the open water space running parallel to our ice flo floe ehas has been all the time free from ice it has been accompanying us since our landing in certain places its width exceeds feet pap anin an and d made a long trip on it in a rubbers rubber canoe and photographed the picturesque steep ice te hores f we noted three times with great satisfaction s atis faction the appearance ot of w a arge large seal As we anticipated lif uty IT m the high nori northern hern latitudes eon coni tn hrnry to coall all theories proved failed ailed quite recently we noted th beginning of biological spring g ai j great ocean depths down feet a small medusa was caught seagulls and finches cinches fly hero here quite frequently to complete the general picture a sh she bear Zib with her young cubs lately visited s cited us we found the central to be bd rather populated and the arctic station in bay tik haya waier we already idy have made several flights chere here we carry guests from one station to another share i the experience of our work als also 0 exchange newspapers and literature litera turp 4 hold chess tournament we have held i a chess bourna ment in which the winterers winter ers of the rudolf i island were t the he winners at al t the eighty second degree northern latitude we watched with keen in the sound films dims storm bu brovsky now we await for the films Chapay ev and guy de maup as ball of baet cinema pic tures lures give us fresh vigor awaken in us new interests and deeply stir us here the characters landscapes and the must music c of the films indis soL ubly ably bind us wath the great land the mainland Ti khaya bay is considered by us the arctic venice what beautiful natural scene scenery millions of birds tall grass numerous flowers excel lent hunting the winterers winter ers of bay hunt walruses and bears they have already killed 21 bears I 1 myself killed two of them we diligently work upon clabo rating ratling the map ot of the franz joseph archipelago we have already photographed to from the air a considerable section we discovered 11 small islands which have not yet been marked on n the map we intend to present a more exact map up upon our return to moscow we maintain regular radio communication muni cation with the north pole sta uon tion we speak about everything even tri les everything Is in or |