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Across the ice curtain: Alaska–Siberia visits, 1988

1989; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 25; Issue: 154 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0032247400010822

1475-3057

Jerome F. Sheldon,

Indigenous Studies and Ecology

Abstract On 13 June 1988 a US party including Alaskan Natives and business, political and media representatives flew from Nome, Alaska to Provideniya, Siberia, on a ‘friendship flight’ arranged by the State of Alaska and Soviet authorities. In August of the same year MV Society Explorer , a US-operated cruise ship, made a 20-hour port call in Provideniya. On 7 September the Soviet research vessel Dmitri Laptev paid a return visit from Provideniyato Nome with a party of Yupik natives and Soviet officials. These visits represent the first formal contacts between neighbouring communities across Bering Strait for over 40 years.