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The Moscow capital announced the participants of the Moscow youth expedition to Africa, which will take place as part of the "Six Years – Six Volcanoes" project. The participants are 10 schoolchildren and college students. In 2026, the students will travel to Tanzania, where they will study the ecosystems of two volcanoes – Meru and Ol Doinyo Lengai. This was reported by Anastasia Rakova, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Development.
"Interest in educational tourism among schoolchildren and students is steadily growing; today, one in 20 young Muscovites is interested in this activity. To give these young people even more opportunities to explore different parts of the Earth, we decided to hold the first youth expedition to Africa as part of the 'Six Years – Six Volcanoes' project. The program is unique in the world. Participants will travel to the hottest continent for 14 days, climbing the peaks of African mountains to collect lava, soil, and water samples for subsequent study by specialists at geological museums. The best samples will be added to scientific collections. To become participants, the young people completed several stages: they wrote a Volcanic Dictation, defended their projects at a conference, and completed a mountain route at a training camp in the Krasnodar Territory. Eight schoolchildren and two college students were selected," said Anastasia Rakova.
The expedition participants included Aleksey Bobrinev from School No. 1514, Mikhail Kabakov from School No. 1353 named after General D.F. Alekseev, Dmitry Kovalev from School No. 1253, Vera Polina from School No. 1517, Elizaveta Savina from School No. 171, Maria Sinyukova from Bauman Engineering School No. 1580, Alexandra Smirnova from School No. 1570, Vera Ushakova from School No. 1553 named after V.I. Vernadsky, as well as Nikita Gadalov from Communications College No. 54 named after P.M. Vostrukhin and Aleksandr Tokmakov from the Moscow Technological College named after I.A. Likhachev.
Young Muscovites completed training camp before an expedition to Africa.
Schoolchildren and college students will reach Arusha National Park, where they will begin their ascent of Mount Meru, one of the continent's highest volcanoes. Over the course of several days, the students will ascend to an altitude of over 4,500 meters. They will spend the night in mountain camps, each consisting of several one-story cabins with bunk beds.
After the descent, the young travelers will head to Lake Natron, famous for its pink water and extremely alkaline environment, deadly to most animals. After exploring its surroundings, the children will make a night climb to the summit of Ol Doinyo Lengai Volcano, which erupts unique carbonatite lava, which is much "colder" than silicate lava—around 600 degrees Celsius.
At an altitude of almost three thousand meters, expedition members will collect samples. These will subsequently be studied by specialists from the Vernadsky State Geological Museum and the Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Around 80,000 schoolchildren and college students in the capital are involved in tourism—one in every 20 students. The city's "Route Built" project is aimed at them. Over the past year, students have completed nearly 300 hikes across Russia and other countries. Destinations include Kazbek, Tien Shan, North Ossetia, Altai, Kamchatka, and the Arctic and Antarctica.
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