Soviet Antarctic Expedition
- Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) ( _ru. "Советская Антарктическая Экспедиция", "САЭ", "Sovyeskaya Antarkticheskaya Ekspeditziya") was part of the Arctic and Antarctic Scientific Research Institute of the Soviet Committee on Antarctic Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
The Soviet Union's Ministry of Sea Transport was responsible for the administration, logistics and supply of the expeditions.
The first Soviet contact with Antarctica was in 1946 when Soviet whaling ships were whaling in Antarctic waters.
tations
The first Soviet Antarctic station, "Mirny" was established near the coast on 13 February 1956. This was added to in December 1957 by another station, "Vostok" built inland near the south geomagnetic pole.
Year-round stations
* Mirny (established February 13, 1956)
* Vostok (established December 16, 1957)
* Novolazarevskaya (established January 18, 1961)
* Molodyozhnaya (established January 14, 1963)
* Bellingshausen (established 22 February 1968)
* Leningradskaya (established 25 February 1971)
* Russkaya (established 9 March 1980)
* Progress (established 1 April 1988)
ummer stations
*Komsomolskaya (established November 6, 1957)
*Pionerskaya (established May 27, 1956)
*Druzhnaya I (on the Filchner Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea)
*Druzhnaya II (on the Weddell Sea)
IGY stations
List of stations in use during the International Geophysical Year.
*Sovetskaya
*Pole of inaccessibility station
Expeditions
The Soviet Union engaged in expeditions to Antarctica from 1955 to its collapse. After this, the Soviet Antarctic stations were taken over by Russia.
ee also
* List of Antarctic expeditions
* Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations
References
* Boczek, B. A. "The Soviet Union and the Antarctic Regime" in "The American Journal of International Law", Vol. 78, No. 4 (Oct., 1984), pp. 834-858
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