Putin: Vostok station in Antarctica most modern, well-equipped’

Published January 28,2024

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday stated that his nation’s southernmost Vostok analysis station in Antarctica is “one of the most modern and well-equipped” within the continent, as he participated within the launch of its new wintering advanced.

“Until recently, the conditions at the station were very modest, ascetic, one might say, far from the modern level of comfort … Now the situation has changed, the station’s capabilities have increased by an order of magnitude. Today it is one of the most modern and well-equipped in Antarctica,” Putin stated throughout the ceremony, which was additionally attended by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.

Stating that the final main renovation in Vostok Station occurred greater than 40 years in the past, Putin stated the primary buildings of the station have lengthy been buried below the snow, whereas even later buildings are both partially or have since been utterly buried below as much as 5 meters of snow.

Putin went on to precise gratitude to everybody who contributed to the creation of the station’s new wintering advanced, together with Russia’s Novatek pure fuel firm.

He additional described the opening of the brand new wintering advanced as a “big and significant event” for Russian polar scientists, stating that the occasion issues each Russia and its allies.

“The new station will strengthen cooperation between scientists from different countries, will become an open platform for solving pressing problems in the field of studying nature and the environment and, of course, promoting joint scientific innovation programs within the framework of the Union State of Russia and Belarus,” he added.

The Vostok Station was established in 1957 and is certainly one of 5 energetic Russian analysis stations in Antarctica. It is located over Lake Vostok, the most important subglacial lake within the continent, and is greatest identified to be the situation the place the bottom measured pure temperature on Earth of -89.2C was measured.