Documentary: “The Golden Coast of the Arctic” The very north. A city that is embraced by ice and endless tundra. Where it often snows even in summer, and the blistering wind (it is called yuzhak) seems to penetrate to the core.
Pevek, nestled in a convenient bay, is both a settlement and a seaport. It is also the hero of the novel “Territory” by the writer and mining engineer-geophysicist Oleg Kuvaev. Two hundred kilometres from Pevek is Mayskoye, which is one of the five largest gold deposits in Russia. The reserves explored here will definitely be sufficient until 2032.
As many years ago, people from the Mainland are helping to explore the permafrost territory. They come to the Arctic Gold Coast to find solutions to non-trivial problems in harsh climatic and geological conditions – to achieve something that is difficult for the average person to imagine even in theory.