THE MAIN PROJECTS OF THE ADVENTURE CLUB
1989–2010.
Sport activities
- 1989 – the Soviet American Expedition on dog sleds along
Chukotka, Russia and Alaska, USA;
- 1989-97 – ski expeditions along drifting ice;
- 1991 – parachute jumps to the North Pole (jointly with
the Russian Air Forces);
- 1991-93 – annual running races to Mount of Elbrus;
- 1993 – a marathon across the Sahara desert;
- 1998 – the ski crossing of the Bering Strait;
- 2000 – the super marathon in the Death Valley, California,
USA;
- 2000-01 – round the world truck expedition Moscow – Uelen
– Seattle – Toronto – New York – London – Kaliningrad –
Moscow;
- 2005 – The Great Russian Race;
- 2006 – The expedition of Prince Albert II of Monaco to
the North Pole.
- 2008 –To the North Pole in the darkness of the Polar Night.
Marine projects
- 1992 – the first sailing of a foreign yacht from the White
Sea to the Black Sea via the internal water routes of Russia;
- 1996-99 – a round the world sailing of the Adventure Club's
yacht around the Eastern Hemisphere over the four oceans,
including the Northeast passage;
- 2001-02 – the second circumnavigation of the yacht "Apostol
Andrey";
- 2004-06 – the third circumnavigation of the yacht "Apostol
Andrey".
Projects for people with disabilities
- 1991, 1992, 1994 – a marathon in wheel chairs: Moscow
– Kiev – Krivoy Rog (1400 km); Vladivostok – St. Petersburg
(11000 km, jointly with the Ministry of Defense); St. Petersburg
– Alma-Ata along 15 countries of FIS and Baltic countries
(9000 km);
- 1995 – an ascent of the Mt. Kazbek (5047 m) by disabled
sportsmen in wheel chairs;
- 1996 – the ecological marathon in wheel chairs Semipalatinsk
– Cheliabinsk – Chernobyl, 10000 km (jointly with the Ministry
of Emergency situations);
- 1997 – an ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, 5895 m,
made by a team of disabled sportsmen;
- 2000 – a ski expedition across Greenland by a team, including
one participant with spinal cord injury;
- 2002 – an ascent of the Mt. McKinley (6194 m, Alaska,
USA) by disabled sportsmen in wheel chairs.
Projectsfor youth
- 1990 – a scientific expedition to Chukotka (observation
of a total solar eclipse);
- 1992 – kayak expeditions along the rivers of the USA and
Canada;
- 1997 – a scientific expedition to Chita region (observation
of a total solar eclipse);
- 1998 – a youth ecological expedition to Mt. Elbrus;
- 1999 – a youth ecological expedition to Kamchatka;
- 2000-11 – the youth ecological camp in the Republic of
Karelia.
Historical geographical projects
- 1990 – the Russian-Norwegian expedition to Franz-Josef
Land; discovery of the wintering heim of Fridtjof Nansen;
- 1991 – the Russian-Danish expedition to the Commander
Islands (Kamchatka). Discovery of the grave of Vitus Bering,
a world famous navigator;
- 1995 – International expedition (Danish, English and Russian
participants) to Franz Josef Land. Discovery of the grave
of Georgy Sedov, a famous Russian polar explorer;
- 1999 – a historical archaeological expedition to the burial
place of Vasily and Tatiana Pronchishchev, famous Russian
explorers, at the mouth of the Olenek river, North Yakutia
(jointly with the newspaper "Moskovskaia Pravda");
- 2001 – a historical-archaeological expedition "The
mystery of the Lassenius detachment";
- 2002 – a historical-archaeological expedition "Deznev,
Lassenius, Pronchishchev";
- 2006 – the expedition "Following the Trasec of Dr. Frederick Cook".
- 2010 – a historical-archaeological expedition "Arctic-2101".
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