Fedor Konyukhov will travel around Crimea from the Kerch Bridge
The educational and practical expedition “Under the St. Andrew’s Flag”, led by the famous Russian traveler Fyodor Konyukhov, started from the Center for Marine Research and Technology of Sevastopol State University.
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“This is the first training trip. Next time, SevSU and I want to take a larger number of yawls and team members and sail from the Kerch Bridge to the extreme northwestern point of Crimea. The hike will show whether this team can be taken on an expedition around the peninsula. You can’t live only in extreme sports, I’m pleased to be in Crimea,” Konyukhov said before setting sail.
SevSU Rector Vladimir Nechaev confirmed that expeditions with Konyukhov will continue in the future, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“It is important for us to practice organizing expeditions, because we are preparing larger expeditions in the future,” Nechaev said.
30 expedition members on 2 six-oared, plastic, unsinkable yawls will travel 120 km along the Sevastopol bays, then to Cape Lucullus and back to Tauride Chersonese. From there, on July 17, the expedition, which will be joined by the sailing frigate “Khersones”, will leave for Artek.
The expedition participants will make camps and clean the shoreline from debris. They were given field books in which they will record their observations. Master classes along the way will be conducted by Fyodor Konyukhov himself and Viktor Lebedinsky, a senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who is engaged in underwater archaeology.
As the director of the “Center for Marine Research and Technology” of SevSU Dmitry Tatarkov said, the trip with Fedor Konyukhov will make it possible to select participants in the “Konstantinovskaya Marine Expedition”, which will take place in 2019 on the ship “PioneerM”, designed by students of the Sevastopol University.
English version :: Read in English Fyodor Konyukhov will set off on a journey around Crimea from the Kerch Bridge.