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12/26/2014

A polar explorer, a meteorologist, a specialist in the North Pole, Vyacheslav Korotki became a central figure of The New Yorker story


A polar explorer, a meteorologist, a specialist in the North Pole, Vyacheslav Korotki became a central figure of The New Yorker story

The past thirty years he has spent on Russian ships, now he lives in Khodovarikha – an Arctic outpost on a peninsula in the Barents Sea, where he measures the temperatures, the snowfall, the winds. The closest town is an hour away by helicopter. Vyacheslav is sixty-three, when he began his career he was an enthusiast, a romantic about the open spaces and the conditions of the Arctic. On behalf of The New Yorker a photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva, who grew up in the Arctic town of Tiski, visited Korotki and captured his life and work moments in photographs.

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