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The press service of the President of Russia
The President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited the Museum exhibition of the National Park “Russian Arctic” in the Land of Franz Joseph.
During the tour, the Prime Minister and the President spoke about the habits of living in the archipelago, polar bears and walruses, and also showed a number of exhibits, ranging from the wreckage of coast-dwellers to artifacts from the secret German weather station during the great Patriotic war.
Putin and Medvedev got acquainted with the piece of skin Soviet plane TB-3 that crashed on the Land of Franz Joseph. The Prime Minister offered to restore the aircraft as no one from 818 released copies of TB-3 to the present day have not survived.