Travely-Family grew out of a family circumnavigation aboard the yacht Lady Mary. Today it encompasses expedition journeys, educational initiatives and film projects rooted in real experience of ocean passages and work in high latitudes.
Travely-Family expedition format
Antarctica aboard expedition yachts and schooners - in a small group, with people for whom the ocean is a profession and a way of life.
2026/27 season
Only current departures with confirmed dates are shown here. The Antarctica page contains the full range of expedition formats and season information.
Expedition with Fedor Konyukhov. Take part in creating a permanent polar station on Smolensk Island.
Together with Fedor Konyukhov, we are taking part in creating a permanent Russian polar station on Smolensk Island.
Explore the project →Who we are today
The Travely-Family crew circumnavigated the globe twice aboard the sailing yacht Lady Mary, passed through Point Nemo, rounded Cape Horn and reached Antarctica. The ocean became more than a backdrop for a beautiful story: it became our home and workplace, where every day demands preparation, responsibility and the ability to work as a team.
Today that experience continues through professional expeditions, bespoke journeys, educational projects, documentary films and books. The family circumnavigation remains the beginning of Travely-Family, but no longer defines the scale of the project.
Meet the teamExpedition journeys to the Antarctic Peninsula with people who know and love Antarctica, and for whom a yacht is both a way of life and a home. Every year they cross the Drake Passage repeatedly and work among the ice.
Join an existing programme or discuss a private expedition.
Private journeys through South and Central America, built around nature, people and places that do not fit into a standard tourist itinerary.
Bespoke sailing-yacht itineraries through Southeast Asia, with close attention to local culture, natural areas and the authentic life of the region.
Completed projectEducation × film × Antarctica
An educational project awarded a grant by the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives: a nationwide film laboratory for school students in which young researchers took a scientific idea from competitive selection and collaboration with scientists all the way to filming on a real expedition.
High-school students from across Russia competed for a place in the Film Laboratory. The finalists completed an intensive programme in filmmaking and science communication and presented their own documentary film projects about Antarctica. The authors of the winning project earned the opportunity to join a film expedition to Antarctica. The result was four popular-science films about scientists and research in high latitudes.
The project was led by Marina Klochkova with the support of the expedition company Rusarc and the Novosibirsk branch of the Russian Geographical Society.
Explore the project Photo: Russian Geographical Society / project archiveTravely-Family story · Lady Mary · since 2013
Aboard Lady Mary, the Klochkov family crossed the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans, reached Point Nemo – the oceanic pole of inaccessibility – rounded Cape Horn and sailed to Antarctica.
This story is not only about the route. It also encompasses years of life aboard, the children's education, self-sufficient passages, repairs, storms and thousands of decisions for which the crew took full responsibility.
Follow the route by year
The Travely-Family story is preserved in documentary films, Marina Klochkova's book With Children Around the World, publications and an extensive shipboard journal.
The project's films have received awards at Russian maritime and travel film festivals. The old website archive contains more than 600 chronicles – publications about the circumnavigations, Antarctica, sailing, countries and people, as well as technical advice, formalities, adventures and the psychology of a team living in a confined space.
