MOSCOW, August 24. /TASS/. Participants in the 5th All-Russian Youth Environmental Forum-Festival "Arctic. The Ice Has Broken", which ran in Naryan-Mar on August 17-22, cleaned the Pechora River's coast, press service of the Clean Arctic public environmental project said.

"The cleanup mission was organized on the eve of the Pechora River Day, which traditionally is celebrated on the last Sunday in August. The river is playing a special role in life of the locals. It is a favorite place where they come to relax, plus the river is an important transport route, and a fishing center. Besides, it is along the Pechora that goods are transported to the region during the summer navigation period," the press service said.

The forum's participants had to remove mostly glass fragments which people had left on the sand. After the coastline was cleaned, the forum guests organized a friendly volleyball match on this site, and then launched kites into the sky.

"We've been looking for a location for a long time, because it's not so easy to find dirty beaches along the Pechora, there's almost no waste there. The beach is about one and a half kilometers long, and we wanted it to look even cleaner after we were there," the press service quoted the Clean Arctic project's leader Andrey Nagibin as saying.

The Nenets Autonomous Region has been participating actively in the Clean Arctic project's missions, he continued. Over five years of work, volunteers have restored more than 50 hectares of land and removed 1,000 tons of waste. Previously, cleanup missions were organized in the villages of Old Varandey and Idkateley.

The Clean Arctic Public Environmental Project has been cleaning the northern territories since 2021. The volunteers focus on objects, left since the USSR times. Waste removal is a complex technological work, where the movement teams work carefully minding the Arctic nature. Over all seasons, the project's almost 10,000 volunteers have collected 22,000 tons of waste and cleaned 1,100 hectares of land. The project's general partner is the Rosatom State Corporation, and TASS is the general information partner.

The 5th All-Russian Youth Environmental Forum-Festival "Arctic. The Ice Has Broken" featured about 300 young scientists, researchers, and environmental volunteers aged between 18 to 35. The forum's purpose is to show the Far North's opportunities to young people and to shape ideas for the Nenets Autonomous Region's development program.

The Arctic. The Ice Has Broken was organized by the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), the Nenets Autonomous Region's administration, and the Clean Arctic public environmental project. TASS was the event's information partner.