Tiksi

Tiksi is an city locality an urban-kind settlement and the place of work of Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, positioned at the shore of the Buor-Khaya Gulf of the Laptev Sea, southeast of the delta of the Lena River. As of the 2010 Census, its populace became 5,063. In August 1901, Russian Arctic deliver Zarya headed across the Laptev Sea, attempting to find the mythical Sannikov Land but became soon blocked through floating go with the flow ice within the New Siberian Islands.

During 1902, the tries to reach Sannikov Land persisted even as Zarya was trapped in rapid ice. Leaving the ship, Russian Arctic explorer Baron Eduard Toll and 3 partners vanished for all time in November 1902 at the same time as traveling far from Bennett Island toward the south on loose ice floes. Zarya turned into sooner or later moored close to Brusneva Island inside the Tiksi Bay, by no means to go away the area again.

The final participants of the day trip again to St. Petersburg, whilst Captain Fyodor Matisen went to Yakutsk. Tiksi serves as one of the essential ports for getting access to the Laptev Sea. It is served with the aid of the Tiksi Airport, which became shut down with the aid of the Defense Ministry on October 1, 2012 except for helicopters. Tiksi turned into linked most effective by means of helicopter flights and iciness roads. The closure became harshly criticized by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.