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Project "Frost tube in Russian schools " is a pilot program that the establishing of monitoring sites where comunitties located in Russian cryolithozone since 2012. In this project, students from remote areas can learn more about the permafrost . In addition, students can participate in major scientific research community of the International Permafrost Association, expanding their horizons and forming the scientific worldview . During the year, the students under the guidance of the teacher of geography , physics or biology measure the depth of soil freezing in frost tube of Danilin on schoolyard. Concomitantly, observations of air temperature and snow depth. Since April 2012 , six of western Siberian communities began to monitor on this project in Yamal-­Nenets Autonomous District (Salekhard, Labytnangy) during and before the 10th International Conference on Permafrost. In July 2012 frost tube was installed at the Children's Environmental station in Novy Urengoy , schools of BAM (Severobaykalsk, Chara, Novaya Chara, Tynda) , Southern Yakutia (Zolotinka, Iengra, Berkakit, Neryungri, Serebryny Bor, Chulman , Khatymi), Yakutsk. During the May expedition "Frost tube in the Baikal region " in 2013 frost tube was installed in 11 settlements of the Irkutsk region: Baikalsk, Sludyanka, Kultuk, Irkutsk, Ust -­Orda, Bayanday, Kachug, Birulka, Anga, Butakovo and Verkholensk. September's expedition in 2013 took place on the Sakhalin Island, and frost tube was installed in four localities: Nekrasovka (the most northern settlement of Sakhalin Island), Okha, Nogliki and Pobedino. Today, there are 40 educational institutions participating in the project from 29 settlements in Russian cryolithozone. In different schools we found a peculiar interest of teachers and students to cryogenic phenomena. The study of icings in Kultuk, mudflow dam erected after the famous 1971 in Sludyanka, the searching of ice caves near Verkholensk, daily weather observations from 1981 continuing by teacher of geography in Butakovo -­ this valuable material students will necessarily use when writing school papers on the project "Frost tube". The first award of the international project "Frost tube in Russian schools" is recived and diploma of students and their head Alfiya Khabibulina from Novy Urengoy on Yamal Second Environmental Forum in April 2013. The data and newsletters about the expeditions, competitions, conferences for students are here http://permafrost.edublogs.org and http://vk.com/frost_tube