At the end of August - beginning of September 2011 the head of METROPOL Group of Companies M.V. Slipenchuk took part in an international research expedition to Wrangel Island in the North Arctic Ocean.

Frederick Paulsen, the famous polar explorer, chairman of the board of directors of pharmaceutical company Ferring Pharmaceuticals (Switzerland), Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation in Lausanne, has funded this project.
The expedition also included Russian scientists from the Institute of Arctic and Antarctic.

The expedition carried out a set of meteorological, radiometric, heat-balanced and oceanographic researches. In addition, works were carried out on studying environmental situation at Wrangel Island and palaeontological survey - the island is considered to be the last habitat of woolly mammoths.