There took place a premiere of the documentary of the Institute of Oceanology named after P.P. Shirshov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, having got the name «The Mark» in the Central House of the Artists.
There research, conducted in 2016 on the Shokalskiy Island in the Kara Sea, is making a plot of the picture. The expedition was organized by the Council on Marine Mammals, the employees of the Institute of Oceanology took part in it.
The scientists managed to install satellite tag on a white whale and ringed seal for a first time in this region. As the participants of filming note, there was a very difficult task before the biologists. The difficulties were created not only by changeable weather of the Arctic summer, but by a lack of doing work experience in a little-studied area of the Arctic as well.
As the author and director of the film Vladimir Marin tells, the island was literally poured by the Kara Sea in rainy days, for that reason the explorers had to wait whole days in the houses on stilts, when the water recedes. High humidity was often the cause of the equipment failure, and they had to repair it.
Vladimir Marin is the director of the video studio of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the winner of the following festivals of popular scientific and documentary films: «The Laurel Branch» (the short list), «The Golden Knight», «Man and Nature», «Rendezvous with Russia», «Golden Dolphin», «Man and War». His work «The mystery of the white fugitive» about the destiny of the white whale Egor from the Moscow Dolphinarium is recognized as the best film about the adventures at the IX International film festival «The sea is calling – 2012».
In spite of the extreme shooting conditions, as Marin says, the places, where the action of non-fiction picture unfolds, were of undoubted interest because of the diversity of wild fauna of the Arctic. Polar bears, sea hares and birds caught the eye of scientists and a crew as well.
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You may see the trailer here.
The tape was first presented to the public at the «Pristine Russia» national festival.
The Russian Geographical Society is supporting the study of marine mammals within the frames of their environmental projects. Thus, for example, there are being studied two populations of beluga whales in the Sea of Okhotsk and the White Sea by the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences jointly with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems named after A.N.Severtsovof the Russian Academy of Sciences and with the Council on Marine Mammals.