The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) (Russian: 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 January 1947 when the Slava whaling flotilla began whaling in Antarctic waters.
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Stations
The first Soviet Antarctic station, Mirny, was established near the coast on February 13, 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 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.
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.
See also
- List of Antarctic expeditions
- Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations
- List of Russian explorers
References
- Boczek, B. A. (October 1984) "The Soviet Union and the Antarctic Regime" in The American Journal of International Law, 78(4):834–58
- Voronin, V. I. (1948) "The first Antarctic whaling expedition of the Slava flotilla" in Proceedings of the Soviet Geographical Society, 80(3):213–222
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