For two weeks in July, a comprehensive scientific expedition of the National Park “Russkaya Arktika” and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF Russia), composed of sixty people went on research vessel “Professor Molchanov” more than four thousand nautical miles, rose above the eightieth parallel, and made ​​a landing in the national park and the federal reserve “Franz Josef Land.” The main objective of the expedition was to collect information about the state of ecosystems and the cultural and historical heritage in the Orange Islands and the Cape of Desire – this is just the National Park “Russian Arctic”.