Artur Chilingarov, a Russian polar scientist and explorer and veteran member of parliament, died on Saturday, the speaker of the state Duma lower house said. He was 84. Chilingarov was born in the ...

TASS/. Russian State Duma Deputy, Hero of Russia, explorer of the Arctic and the Antarctic Artur Chilingarov died at the age of 84, Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced. "A wonderful man ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The office of Artur Chilingarov, the bearded polar explorer and anointed Hero of the Russian Federation, is at the end of ...

International research station Barneo has opened in the Arctic, the special presidential representative for international cooperation in the Arctic and the Antarctic, Artur Chilingarov ...

“Our dive, our action, was a geographical event, not a political one; it was like planting a flag on Everest or on the moon,” the explorer, Artur Chilingarov, asserted years later. Others didn ...

Although not strictly controlled by any one state, this month famed Russian explorer, 68-year-old Artur Chilingarov, took a submarine 13,980 feet below the North Pole, successfully planted a ...

"It is the first time in history that the Olympic flame will visit a place known as the 'top of the world,'" said Artur Chilingarov, expedition leader. "I believe that carrying the Olympic flame ...

Arthur Chilingarov, a Russian polar explorer and vice president of the Russian Geographical Society, said at the Murmansk ceremony that it would be the first time the Olympic torch had traveled to ...