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The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) (Russian: Советская антарктическая экспедиция, САЭ, Sovetskaya antarkticheskaya ekspeditsiya) was part of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of the Soviet Committee on Antarctic Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. It was succeeded by the Russian Antarctic Expedition.

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 January 1947 when the Slava whaling flotilla began whaling in Antarctic waters.

Stations

The first Soviet Antarctic station, Mirny, was established near the coast on February 13, 1956. In December 1957 another station, Vostok, was 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 February 22, 1968)
• Leningradskaya (established February 25, 1971)
• Russkaya (established March 9, 1980)
• Progress (established April 1, 1988)

Summer 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 dissolution. After this, the Soviet Antarctic stations were taken over by Russia.

See also

• Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• List of Antarctic expeditions
• Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations
• List of Russian explorers
• Zapadnoye Lake

References

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• Boczek, Boleslaw A. (1984). "The Soviet Union and the Antarctic Regime". The American Journal of International Law. 78 (4): 834–858. doi:10.2307/2202198. JSTOR 2202198. S2CID 146974520.
• Voronin, V. I. (1948) "The first Antarctic whaling expedition of the Slava flotilla" in Proceedings of the Soviet Geographical Society, 80(3):213–222
• Nudel'man, A. V. (1959). Soviet Antarctic Expeditions 1955-1959. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR.
• Gan, I, Towards the great unknown: the Soviets prepare for their thrust into the Antarctic interior, National and transnational agendas in Antarctic Research from the 1950s and beyond. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop of the SCAR Action Group on the History of Antarctic Research, BPRC Technical report no. 2011-01, Byrd Polar Research Centre, Columbus, Ohio, pp. 116–130. (2012)
• Gan, Irina (2011). "'The first practical Soviet steps towards getting a foothold in the Antarctic': The Soviet Antarctic whaling flotilla Slava". Polar Record. 47: 21–28. doi:10.1017/S003224740999043X. S2CID 129798279.
• Gan, Irina (2010). "Soviet Antarctic plans after the International Geophysical Year: Changes in policy". Polar Record. 46 (3): 244–256. doi:10.1017/S0032247409008456. S2CID 145342011.
• Gan, Irina (2009). "The reluctant hosts: Soviet Antarctic expedition ships visit Australia and New Zealand in 1956". Polar Record. 45: 37–50. doi:10.1017/S0032247408007675. S2CID 145179179.
• Gan, Irina (2009). "'Will the Russians abandon Mirny to the penguins after 1959 . . . Or will they stay?'". Polar Record. 45 (2): 167–175. doi:10.1017/S0032247408007948. S2CID 144743332.
• Gan, I, The Soviet Preparation for the IGY Antarctic Program and the Australian Response: Politics and Science, Boletín Antártico Chileno 2nd SCAR Workshop on the History of Antarctic Research, 22–22 September 2006, Santiago, Chile, pp. 60–70. (2009)
• Gan, I, The Soviet Preparation for the IGY Antarctic Program and the Australian Response: Politics and Science, 2nd SCAR Workshop on the History of Antarctic Research, 21–22 September 2006, Santiago, Chile, pp. 11–15. (2006)
• Gan, I, There was no cold war in Antarctica. Soviet-Australian contacts in 1950s, Russia in Antarctica Conference proceedings, April 2006, Saint Petersburg, pp. 77–78. (2006)

External links

• Map of biological data from the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955–1958)

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