The Mobile Polar Museum project was launched at the North Pole on April 23rd, 2007.

Throughout the year the museum will be visited by representatives from over eleven thousand participating companies and over one million guests from sixty countries and almost all regions of the Russian Federation that attend over one hundred MVK exhibitions on an annual basis. The unique museum will be touring all big Russian cities!

The exposition will feature unique historical exhibits, photo and video footage of the Soviet explorers of the North Pole.

MVK would like to express sincere gratitude for providing the unique exhibits, archive materials, and historical photographs to the following institutions and people:

Papanin Museum in the village of Borok
Nekouzsky District, the village of Borok, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, 152742
Tel.: +7 485 472 4395;
www.borok.ru/museums/papanin

Murmansk Oblast Local History Museum
90, prospect Lenina, Murmansk, Russia, 184000
Tel.: +7 815 242 2679;
m914@mail.museum.ru
www.murman.ru/culture/museum

The Russian State Museum of Arctic and Antarctic
24a, ulitsa Marata, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 191040;
Tel.: +7 812 113 2549, Fax: +7 812 164 6818
vicaar@mail.ru
www.polarmuseum.sp.ru

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
38, ulitsa Beringa, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 199397
Tel./Fax: +7 812 352 26 88;
aaricoop@aari.nw.ru
www.aari.ru

The Karmen Documentary Pictures Support Regional Public Fund
13, Vasilyevskaya ulitsa, Moscow, Russia, 123056
Tel.: +7 495 269 8510;
romankarmen@mail.ru

The Russian State Photo and Video Archive (Krasnogorsk)
1, ulitsa Rechnaya, Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia, 143400;
Tel.: +7 495 562 1464, 563 08 45, 563 14 63
filmarchives@aha.ru
www.rgakfd.ru

The Metelitsa (Blizzard) Research Polar Ski Team
Tel.: +7 495 433 2620, Fax: +7 495 433 23 70;
metelitsa@newmail.ru, meteliza@nm.ru

The Association of the Polar Explorers of the Russian Federation
Tel.: +7 495 973 2837;
11a, Seleznyovskaya ulitsa, Moscow, Russia, 127030

Chkalov Memorial Museum
5, ulitsa Chkalova, the town of Chkalovsk, Nizny Novgorod Oblast, 606540;
Tel.: +7 831 602 1706
m653@mail.museum.ru
www.museum.ru/m653

The RF Air Force Central Museum
The village of Monino, Shchyolkovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia, 141170
Tel.: +7 495 526 3327
info@monino.ru
www.monino.ru

The Museum of the Heroic Defense and Liberation of Sevastopol
Ulitsa Istorichesky bulvar, Sevastopol, Crimea, 99000
Tel.: (0692) 52 08 23, 52 21 46
panorama@bios.iuf.net

Private collection of Mikhail Vodopyanov,
rare exhibits and photographs;

Private collection of Vladimir Schmidt,
son of Otto Schmidt, rare exhibits and photographs;

Private collection of Theodore Krenkel (son of Ernst Krenkel),
rare exhibits and photographs;

Private collection of Roman Karmen Jr.,
rare exhibits and photographs;

Private collection of Mike Hewitt,
rare exhibits and photographs;

Private collection of Nina Gromova,
rare exhibits and photographs;

Private collection of Valentina Kuznetsova,
rare exhibits and photographs;

Private collection of Valentina Romanenko (Ivan Papanin’s niece),
rare exhibits and photographs;

Private collection of Vitaly Volovich,
rare exhibits and photographs;

Private collection of Yuri Senatorov, Honourary Polar Explorer and Vice-President of the Association of the Polar Explorers of the Russian Federation,
rare exhibits and photographs;

Private collection of Yuri Burlakov, Vice-President of the Association of the Polar Explorers of the Russian Federation,
rare exhibits and photographs.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

"We hope this museum and our work will inspire some people."

Alexey Shaburov

President of Sokolniki Exhibition
and Convention Centre
Expedition Leader and Project Author

Ludmila Kulanina

Assistant Expedition Leader
Tel.: +7 495 768 2469

Dmitry Savelyev

Assistant
Tel.: +7 916 353 1828

Kseniya Kamenskaya

Assistant
Tel.: +7 495 762 7393

Andrey Sobornov

Assistant

Address: 1 Sokolnichesky Val, pavilion 4, Moscow 107113, Russia
Tel.: +7 495 995 05 95