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• 1.    M. V. Lomonosov, his anniversary celebrates in 2011 in Russia. He said that “Russian's power will grow with Siberia and the Northern Ocean, and reaches to the main European settlements in Asia and in America” (from the “Short description of the different trips to the northern seas and indications of the possible passage of the Siberian Ocean to East India”, 1763). How do you understand these words of the first Russian academician?

• 2.    Arctic cold space, with its abundant natural resources could become more accessible in the twenty-first century for Russia and the world. We need the trust between nations and people, a huge investment, the Arctic partnership, cooperative effort between business and government for this, instead of “resource wars”, the desire to build a reliable communication. While the situation around the Arctic really is complicated, not solved questions in the section of the continental shelf and other conflicts. What do you think, who will better decide the future of the Arctic - the military, diplomats, or scientists?

• 3.    What personal associations do you have about the Arctic and the North?

• 4.    Your wishes, suggestions to a new journal “Arctic and North”.

We want to note, that Lomonosov followed Tatishchev, because the economist-geographer competed with the historian. The dream about the Northern Sea Route, which should be founded by Bering, fired the imagination of all Russian politicians among scientists, which closed the series of powerful figures among them is a great Mendeleev. Neither Tatishchev nor Lomonosov dreamed, of course, about the mineral resources of Siberia. The value of furs has dropped in Russian exports to Europe because of cheap imports from the American colonies. So that it is hardly included in the calculations and agricultural resources of South Siberia had to be waited for the Witte and Stolypin. So whatever we look at this, Lomonosov still probably had in the mind the imperial power of Russia and had a chance to find the direct path to the American continent .

The military surely can’t solve it. Their job - to demonstrate the archaic armed force in the vast territories of Arctic. The aim of diplomats is to involve registration of political agreements. And these and others, and the third group, listen to the scientists, but the destiny of the Arctic is decided on the general economic field. There are the enormous difficulties of the global economy and among them financial speculation of the Western world, and should be added the tragedy starving of billions people which make many of them for a long time to postpone the development of the Arctic. It may be well: the fragile peace in the Arctic can endure primitive technologies of the twentieth century, but it can’t endure today's destructive potential of technology. Lets the drama of an oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico will be as a good warning – so lets the present state of business ethics, scientists and diplomats will do everything in the Arctic and for half a century in the Arctic will be done everything by the scientists and diplomats.

I still can not forget the horror of the history of the Northern part of Gulag. With great interest I’m look at the developing of the Arctic tourism.

From my point of view, the most interesting transition from chance to learn pale techniques of the North to a small number of people of neotechniques with the maximum comfort of their activities. I want to believe that domestic priorities like screen fly in the North can overcome the lobby of the traditional aircraft.

It is extremely important to raise the quality of life in the northern cities, which may become the permanent bases for watch keeping work - Uhta, for example. I hope that when expensive adventures of the next few years will be left behind, will start seriously working on the project “Ural Industrial - Ural Polar”.

I want to wish to the journal to develop success of “paper” colleague from the “60th parallel”, to create a virtual club for nice people, who will overcome everything; they were, are and will be in the Arctic.