Greenland ice core project Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. This research centre maintains a web page about ice core research: Other links: Greenland ice core project The Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) was a multinational European research project, organized through the European Science Foundation. Funding came from 8 nations (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Switzerland, and United Kingdom), and from the European Union. The project ran from 1989 to 1995, with drilling seasons from 1990 to 1992. GRIP successfully drilled a 3029-metre ice core to the bed of the Greenland ice sheet at Summit, Central Greenland from 1989 to 1992 at .
Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic occupations of livestock raising and beekeeping remain important economic activities. Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (; , "Bashkirskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika"); also known as Soviet Bashkiria or simply Bashkiria was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Russian SFSR. Currently it is known as Bashkortostan. Bashkir ASSR was the first Autonomous Soviet Republic in RSFSR. The republic occupied an area of in the far south-eastern corner of European Russia, bounded on the east by the Ural Mountains and within seventy kilometers of the Kazakhstan border at its southernmost point. The region was settled