Now Igarka going through is far from the best of times. But the moribund city beyond the Arctic circle, there is a museum, which has no analogues either in Russia or in the world. This Museum of permafrost, which was established on the basis of Igarskoy permafrost station in the 1930’s studying permafrost and its properties.
On the outskirts of the old city, surrounded by the dead houses and ruins, stands a small building, which adorn the walls carved figurines mammoths. This house is a small exhibition, and most importantly - the entrance to the cave. Workers permafrost station and the Museum of thicker permafrost was vybita this mine with underground rooms and corridors mnogometrovymi. Besides, deep permafrost layer, guides lead small number of museum visitors.
The most profound point of the mine is located at a depth of 14 meters from the surface - here segregation layer of ice up to quite a large thickness. In several rooms before frozen in ice plates samples of plants, are pieces of ice with the Yenisei and ice mountains - mestoproyavleniya buried ice age some 50,000 years. In one entry from the wall torchat trunks of trees - 70 thousand years ago, they were buried under a layer of sand and clay and proved zakonservirovany permafrost.