He described them as “fine houses on top of a huge ice island ... Russian knickknacks inside confirmed that it was almost certainly one of the old Soviet SP (Severny Polyus/North Pole ...

The Russian Defense Ministry will dispatch a skiing expedition to the North Pole in April 2017 ... participated in expeditions to two Baltic Sea islands to visit historical sites dating back ...

Two Russian airborne divisions are making preparations ... Two drifting bases will be created near the North Pole this year. One, called Kupol, will be used for military purposes.