University student at the North Pole

From July 26 to August 6, 2024, the annual polar tourist expedition to the North Pole took place on board of the nuclear icebreaker "50 Years of Victory".

In addition to the main tourist route, the crew of the nuclear icebreaker was tasked with safe evacuation of Fyodor Konyukhov, who set a new record for non-stop Arctic flights. On July 30, 2024, at the coordinates 89 degrees 8 minutes north latitude, 48 degrees 23 minutes east longitude, the crew of the nuclear icebreaker "50 Years of Victory" picked up the traveler successfully.

Gubkin University student Nikolai Konyukhov (group GR-23-07) took part in the expedition. Thus, the flag of Gubkin University broke a new world record by drifting on an ice floe together with Fyodor Konyukhov.

The search and evacuation operation was carried out by the head of the expedition headquarters Oskar Konyukhov and the founder of the Polar Travel Club Nikolai Savelyev with the support of the expedition headquarters in Moscow under the leadership of Stanislav Bychkov.

Fyodor Konyukhov is a Soviet and Russian traveler who broke his own record for staying at the world's first solo research polar station in 2021. Then the drift took 249 hours and 25 minutes or 10 days. During the drift, Fyodor Konyukhov covered more than 175 kilometers, dividing the route between the Western and Eastern hemispheres.