The snow depth in the Tikhiy Bay reached 30 cm, the head of the expedition team on the Hooker Island (Franz Josef Land) Andrew Kunnikov said.

      "The bay is all ice! It wasn't like this last years, Andrey said. – This is a real winter!" The day before there was a blizzard. At that time, a bear came out to the park's strong point. The polar predator approached the house at 10 m. To scare him we had to use the flare pistol. After a shot the bear climbed up on the bathhouse, then jumped down and went away towards the Roubini Rock. Now, at the strong point of Tikhiy Bay 6 people work, including four members of “Gandvik” district student team of the Northwestern Federal District. Here are being carried out the works on arrangement of national park cordon and ecological trails. In addition, the territory is being cleaned of debris, the website of the "Russian Arctic" National Park reports. This year, the Tikhiy Bay has the possibility to send short text messages via shortwave communication.