Operation "Belucha": how in the USSR saved 2,000 whales for music.

At the end of December 1984, in the area of the island of Itigran in the north-west of the Bering Sea, a huge cluster of 2 thousand whiteheads fell into a western formed by crumbling ice. In one place gathered almost all the individuals who lived on the eastern coast of Chukotka. Attracted by the chase, the beasts found themselves in the shallow water, in the ice trap. They gathered in two small pebbles, were suffocated and starved.
First aid to the disaster sufferers were provided by the workers of the local Soviet farm "Zora of Communism". For many weeks, fishermen and hunters expanded the straw so that it did not freeze, carried the snow on tractors and fed the animals with ice cream fish.
Thanks to the dedication of the people who helped the whales even in the purge and frost, the animals lasted until February 1985, when the icebreaker "Moscow" came to the Strait of Senyavin from the Anadyr Bay. To get there, the crew developed the maximum speed possible.
At first, the icebreaker simply cut through large "bassins", where the whales were able to rest and recover. The beasts were fed and made alive, and began to play and whisper again. However, large pelynia would sooner or later be stretched by ice, so this stage was only intermediate. The main difficulty was to force the whale to sail behind a huge noisy ship, breaking their way to the water with diluted ice.
Many ways were tried, but they absolutely did not want to sail behind the "threatening" ship.
White whales were still threatened with death, but they remained there. "And then we remembered that these Arctic dolphins react very sensitively to music, - said the captain of "Moscow" Anatoly Kovalenko. - It is not in vain that they are called sea canaries because of the sound signals they emit, communicating with each other. We brought the dynamics on the deck and included a recording with the songs of Alla Pugacheva. The icebreaker moved along the canal in small turns, and the whales pulled after him.
The Chukotka whale population was preserved.
So in 1985, 2,000 Chukotka whales were able to escape from ice captivity only thanks to the recording of Ally Pugacheva.