Show plenty of life in arctic area russians discover birds and animals seen by soviet scientists moscow U S S R an intimate picture of what scientists voluntarily marooned 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 I 1 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 previous researches has remained with a group of fellows designed to maintain contact with fellow soviet explorers at the north pole he reports we established regular air communications between rudolf island hunt walruses and bears they have already killed 21 bears I 1 myself killed two of them we diligently work upon up on elaborating the map 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 the map we intend to present a more exact map upon our return to moscow we maintain regular radio communication muni cation with the north pole station we speak about everything even trifles everything is in in order here the winterers winter ers h have ave to work very hard but they are experienced arctic explorers despite the very difficult conditions they live well and work with meticulous precision life at the pole through mazaruk Ma the north pole party reported recently the drift of our for the 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 floe has been all the time free from ice it has been accompanying us since our landing in certain places its width exceeds feet and made a long trip on it in a rubber canoe and photographed the picturesque steep ice shores we noted three times with great satisfaction the appearance of a large seal As we anticipated life in the high northern latitudes contrary ry to all theories proved quite varied quite recently we noted the beginning of biological spring at great ocean depths down feet a small medusa was caught seagulls and finches cinches fly here quite frequently to com the general picture a she bear with her young cubs lately visited us we found the central to be rather populated |