Russian geographical society (RGS) will try to satisfy the overwhelming number of applications from foreign students who wish to go on an expedition " Kyzyl-Kuragino ", said the head of the society Sergei Shoigu at the opening ceremony of the 5th season of the expedition.
He said that for four seasons in the expedition involved more than 2 thousand people from 50 Nations and more than five hundred Russian and foreign scientists." This season, like the previous one, characterized by the fact that we have two months served 1, 5 thousand applications, 300 of them are citizens of 41 countries, " - said Shoigu. According to his statement, volunteers from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Spain and the Czech Republic.
The fifth field season will take place in 3 shifts and will last until August 28. The number of countries participating in the expedition of the current year will be a record.
"A lot of applications from Belarus and Ukraine. We, of course, will try the vast number of applications from abroad to meet. Our criteria clear and understandable. There are no contraindications. The only need is a great desire to do all this, " said said the head of the RGS.
according to his statement, the geographical extent and the number of participants forced to wonder what to do next: "This is a good solid Foundation for education and the emergence of new projects that will be implemented ".
Shoigu added that the expedition became the forge of personnel reserve for the RGS, and volunteers are already actively involved in other projects for the community." Wish you all a good season, interesting finds, interesting meetings and I hope that during This time period We will prepare fresh designs and fresh expedition, " - concluded the head of the RGS.
He handed the camcorder to the two volunteers who intend to remove during the expedition feature film in the new, they invented the genre of " archaeological fantasy."
according to the RGS, the participants of the 5th season of the archaeological expedition "Kyzyl-Kuragino" exploring the mounds of different ages, and among them the Scythian and medieval. Most importantly, This multi-layered site, Erba-2, which is 12 thousand years. In the past year here in the Paleolithic layers were found extremely rare objects of art, for example, stone lined, ritual significance. Today such drives in the world not more than 10. In addition, in the past year on the burial grounds of Quart-1 was found the burial of a woman with a unique set of utensils.
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