Crews of IL-76 aircraft have landed on an island in the Arctic

This was told in the Ministry of Defense.

“Three crews of military transport aviation provided airborne landing units, including for the first time from a height of 10 thousand meters in the Arctic latitudes. In addition, the crews of the IL-76 aircraft landed at the northernmost airfield of Nagurskoye on the island of Alexandra Land on Franz Josef Land archipelago, ”TASS reports.

Earlier it was reported that Russian paratroopers for the first time in history performed high-altitude landing from a height of 10 thousand meters in arctic conditions in the area of ​​the Franz Josef Land archipelago.