An 'Antarctic' Focus: Ural Developer on What Draws Him to the Unexplored Continent

Polar explorer Roald Amundsen was the first person in the world to reach the Earth«s South Pole. This landmark event for world history occurred almost 115 years ago. Distant Antarctica still beckons explorers and scientists. And also developers. Yuri Moiseenko, General Director of Prospekt Group, told what attracts him to this continent and what references to it can be found in the Pervy Yuzhny (First Southern) Residential Complex.

What follows is in the first person.

The New Year is a time of miracles and gifts. And since God helps those who help themselves, I bought myself a globe as a gift. This idea came to mind when we were thinking about designing the entrance hall interior for the Pervy Yuzhny Residential Complex. All sorts of absurd thoughts came to mind, like a stuffed penguin. There was no possibility of buying any rarity connected to Amundsen: they are all in museums. We settled on a globe—a large one, over a meter in diameter, on a stand. You can spin it in any direction.

I liked it very much, and I gave it to myself for the New Year—and my grandson will find it useful too. Since I now have an increased interest in Antarctica thanks to the Pervy Yuzhny Residential Complex, I finally examined it properly. On maps it looks like a narrow white stripe at the very bottom, and you don«t even pay attention to it. And on an ordinary, schoolroom globe on a rod, you can»t really see it either. When I examined it, I was surprised by its size: it turns out it«s almost twice as large as Australia—13.6 million square kilometers.

The wonders didn«t end there. Since I had developed an »Antarctic« focus of attention, I began to notice news concerning Antarctica. It turns out there are warm caves in Antarctica, where temperatures reach 25 degrees Celsius (77°F), because they are located on the surface of a volcano. DNA belonging to various types of algae, mosses, and small creatures was discovered in the cave. Scientists also found several more DNA sequences that did not match any known organisms. Therefore, there is a suggestion that unknown animals and plants may inhabit the warm caves.

Moreover, new species of bacteria survive in extreme conditions on this continent. In the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica, Russian scientists discovered a new bacterium whose genetic makeup differs significantly from those known before. The discovery became known in 2016. This discovery expands ideas about life on Earth and potentially on other planets—in the icy oceans of Jupiter«s and Saturn»s moons, as well as on the poles of Mars.

A year later, fossils of ancient trees were found in Antarctica. This means the continent was once covered with dense forests.

Incidentally, the green mass on the continent has been growing recently. In 2024, researchers from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom found that over the past 35 years, the vegetation cover in northern Antarctica has increased more than tenfold. Comparing satellite images, they saw that the green area on the Antarctic Peninsula, surrounded by the Weddell, Scotia, and Bellingshausen Seas, grew from 1 square kilometer in 1986 to 12 square kilometers in 2021. Moreover, the rate at which plants are appearing on the coldest continent has increased by 30% over the past five years. In 100 years, taiga could appear in Antarctica.

By the way, fossils are often found in Antarctica. Among them are also the remains of dinosaurs. In 1989, paleontologists discovered fossilized remains of an ancient marine reptile—an elasmosaur—on Seymour Island, which is located near the Antarctic Peninsula. It lived about 70 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period. The creature reached a length of about 12 meters (39 feet) and weighed up to 15 tons (33,000 pounds), making it one of the largest known elasmosaurians. The find indicates that the species inhabited this region right up until the mass extinction of non-avian dinosaurs about 66 million years ago.

Forests in Antarctica! And 15-ton dinosaurs in them! The insignificance of human life is felt especially sharply when you think about such global processes…

«We don»t choose the times, we live and die in them.« We have been given this time, interesting and difficult, and history is being made before our eyes. We must simply live, remember the dinosaurs in the forests of Antarctica—against this backdrop, problems look if not laughable, then petty and transient. To notice joyful circumstances and opportunities around us—after all, even the word »crisis« is denoted by the binary hieroglyph »danger + opportunity«. Every coin has two sides. And in particular, at the Pervy Yuzhny Residential Complex, special purchase conditions for apartments are in effect—discounts of up to 8%, interest-free installments, preferential rates for family mortgages. As they say, it»s the little things that count, and everyone loves gifts. Details are available in the sales department.

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Developer: LLC «Specialized Developer »Prospekt Pervy Yuzhny«». You can review the project declaration on наш.дом.рф. Sales are conducted in accordance with Russian Federal Law No. 214-FZ «On Participation in Shared-Equity Construction of Apartment Buildings and Other Real Estate».

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