"Antarctica. Vostok Station" is based on the documentary "Vostok Station. On the Threshold of Life". It’s allowed to be filled with real characters, their direct speech, personal stories and emotions. The center of the story is the unique Russian Vostok station and the greatest geographical discovery of the 20th century that took place there - the discovery of the subglacial Lake Vostok. Russian station is the only one built in the center of the continent, in one of the most extreme territory of the planet. Real polar heroes will tell to young readers how people — pilots, doctors, builders — live and work there.

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The American aviation legend Ben Eielson became a hero of Soviet polar history due to the sad circumstances of his death. One of the seven first Heroes of the Soviet Union, Mavriky Slepnev, found the body of his colleague in the snows of the Arctic. Perhaps this is the only mention of Eielson in Russian-language literature. Meanwhile, he and Australian Hubert Wilkins were the first to fly across the Arctic Ocean, and the first Antarctic pilots. They contributed a lot of remarkable and interesting things to the history of polar flights.
A new book by Veligzhanin, our popular author specializing in the history of aviation , has been published in electronic form. You can buy it on our website and LITRES.

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You can study this story for many years, but if you want to know the most important thing, let to read the book by Mikhail Savinov. Even if you are no longer of school age, it will captivate you from the first lines. The fascinating story is based on factual accuracy, as are the wonderful illustrations by Andrey Tron who is most famous marinist - book illustrator. An ideal book for reading with children, the main thing is to restrain yourself and not "swallow" all 48 pages in one evening.
First published in 2023, it has become a source of pride for our publishing house, included in the Gaidarovka catalog "One Hundred Best Books of 2024". Given the great demand, we have made an additional print run.

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The book "Sedov's Expedition" by Andrey Zobnin was published for the 110th anniversary of the end of the epic expedition of Lieutenant Georgy Sedov. In it, the author tries to understand how it happened that we still cannot find Sedov's grave, and also for the first time he tells to readers in detail story of the expedition's ship "Saint Foka".
The book by the famous Soviet polar explorer and writer Zinovy Kanevsky is dedicated to rescue in high latitudes. The author himself knows the topic very well, because he was rescued on Novaya Zemlya after a 20-hour snow storm. As a result, Kanevsky lost his hands and toes. His text very deeply analyse feelings people who in a trouble.

In 1914, Russian officer of Polish origin Jan Nagurski made the first flight in the Arctic. His goal was to find three missing expeditions led by G. Sedov,
G. Brusilov, V. Rusanov. Although these searches were unsuccessful, his flight opened a new page that completely changed the path of Arctic exploration - polar aviation. Nagurski himself lived a very complicated life, full of mysteries and failures. The book reveals the truth about his biography.

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In 1890 Anton Chekhov had a long journey to Sakhalin - a place of hard labor and exile. The writer’s journey from Moscow through Siberia took 82 days. Impressions from Siberian roads, people and meetings formed the basis of his diary notes “From Siberia,” and the result of his three-month stay on Sakhalin was the book “Sakhalin Island” - a poignant description of everyday life of exiled convicts, jailers, free settlers and the local population.
During a long trip across the country, Chekhov sent detailed letters to his family, friends, and publisher A.S. Suvorin, containing descriptions of road adventures, portraits of Siberians and his fellow travelers, as well as caustic, truly Chekhovian assessments of what was happening.
This edition includes these letters, as well as illustrations: engravings from the two-volume work “Siberia and Hard Labor” by J. Canon, who traveled around Russia in 1895–1896, and photographs of the head of the telegraph station in the Sakhalin village of Doue Ivan Pavlovsky, which he handed over to Chekhov along with his “Travel Diary” in 1890.
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In this volume, the rich history of the Pacific is explored through specific objects, each one beautifully illustrated, from the earliest human engagement with the Pacific through to the modern day. Entries cover mapping, trade, whaling, flora and fauna, and the myriad vessels used to traverse the ocean. This visually stunning publication highlights the importance of an ocean that covers very nearly a third of the surface of the globe, and which has dramatically shaped the world and people around it.
A new look at this fascinating ocean, considering the diversity of culture beyond the familiar viewpoint of colonial history.
Fully illustrated with maps, paintings, artefacts and photographs, with some items from the Library collection reproduced for the very first time.
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This book tells about a balloon flight from the coast of Svalbard to the North Pole and back. On May 28, 2000, David Hempleman-Adams set off on a solo flight to the North Pole. He knew that if he survived a week in the air, he would become the first person in history to reach the North Pole in a balloon. David decided to fly in a basket, and not in a modern closed capsule, out of respect for three Swedes — Salomon Andre, Nils Strindberg and Knut Frenkel, who flew to the pole in 1897 in an Eagle balloon.
Readers will find amazing stories of both journeys: Andre's tragic flight and the unsurpassed achievement of Sir David Hempleman-Adams. The introduction was written by the famous Russian traveler Fedor Konyukhov, who was inspired by a British pilot to fly around the world in a balloon in 2016.
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The book combines the rich experience of traditional navigation of the American yachtsman, traveler and writer Donald S. Johnson and the passion for cartography of the Finnish marine writer Juha Nurminen. More than half of the book consists of excellent illustrations from the collection of Nurminen Foundation. From the general history of navigation, the authors distinguished in navigation, tell about the role of astronomy, geography and cartography in the theory and practice of navigation.
For the first time, the book was published in Finnish and English. Today the book is also available to the Russian-speaking audience.
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The book is timed to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the orphanage in Uummannak (Greenland), which is widely celebrated on September 28 this year. From the first years of its existence, the orphanage attracted the attention of the foreign public, partly due to Rockwell Kent, in whose heart Greenland and this orphanage occupied a special place. The artist supported his work and even wrote about him in his book Salamina.
The author of the book is Eric Torm, a methodologist and director of a child school, who once fell in love, like Rockwell Kent, with Greenland, and has been actively implementing cultural projects of the Uummannak orphanage for 13 years. The book includes photographs from the artist's archive, as well as reproductions of some of his Greenlandic paintings.
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A Cultural History of the European World Map dives deep into the exciting history of the European world map and the very creation of our own worldview, as the earth was first depicted in maps. In doing so it opens up a fascinating narrative of discovery and cartography, relating not only to geography, trade, ideology and political power, but also to the histories of art and science: what do historical maps tell us of our own perception of the world, and of places and people that are foreign to us? Who were the makers of these early world maps? How were these precious objects created, and for whom were they drawn and printed? For what purposes were they used and what kind of information did they pass on?

The album contains over 200 photographs of fauna of White sea, sea of Okhotsk and sea of Japan. Photos are supported by short interesting stories, describing the subjects. Published in Russian and in English languages.

IV international forum "the Arctic — territory of dialogue" held from 29 to 30 March in Arkhangelsk has become the main working platform for foreign partners to discuss actual problems and prospects of the Arctic region. The event was traditionally held with participation of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
Publishing house "Paulsen" as an exhibitor presented new books at Gostiny Dvor and after the event donated them to the municipal library of Arkhangelsk

A sealhunting vessel leaves the Northern city of Tromsø for the annual culling of seals. On board is a crew consisting of hardened hunters; all male. On board is also a young, female, recently graduated veterinarian. There is a conflict of gender here, an
undercurrent that is still very much present in Norway.
The men onboard resent Mari for various reasons, but one of the reasons is that she is a woman.
She represents a threat to their group dynamic; to their (hitherto) unquestioned behavior. And so she is gradually and psychologically worn down. It is fiction, but elements of the book are based on accounts from real inspectors.

Published for the first time in Russian the book of the famous french traveler Paul Labbe (1867–1943) describes his journey in the summer of 1898 to Volga, southern Urals and Kazakhstan. The book depicts everyday life and precious ethnographic observations.
It is an important source of information about of Russia for Europeans of the end of the XIX century. The book is addresed to ethnographers, geographers and general readers.

Hate tight squeezes and cold, wet spaces? If you don't get stuck sliding down the hatch, you'll still wind up wading through ankle-deep water in ridiculously cramped quarters. And if you don't pump fast enough, that would could reach your neck - or higher! Then forget about traveling on the 1st submarine.