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3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Third Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1957–59) was led by Yevgeny Tolstikov on the continent and included Czech future astronomer Antonín Mrkos; the marine expedition on the ''Ob'' was led by I V Maksimov. Two diesel-electric ships were used to transport the expedition. RV ''Ob'' (flagship; captain ) and ''Kooperatsiya'' (captain A S Yantselevich), used mainly as a transport vessel. The ships arrived in Antarctica in November – December 1957. Together with the ships crews the expedition consisted of 445 men, of whom 183 were scheduled for wintering. The tasks of the expedition were: # Relief of the 1956–1958 continental expedition and continuation of the IGY programme # Organisation of the Sovetskaya station at the pole of relative inaccessibility # Continuation of tractor-sledge traverses in central Antarctica # Oceanographic work on the ''Ob'' in the southern oceans, and cartography of the coast from Mirny to the Bellingshausen sea The programme included 6 stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Antarctic Expedition
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. 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. 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 Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golitsyn Mountains
Golitsyn may refer to: Places *Golitsyn (crater), a lunar crater People * Golitsyn family noble family **Dmitry Golitsyn (1771–1844), Russian cavalry general prominent during the Napoleonic Wars and Governor of Moscow for 25 years ** Nikolai Golitsyn (1850–1925), last Tsarist prime minister of Russia **Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1675-1721), general **many others listed in Golitsyn family * Anatoliy Golitsyn (born 1926), Soviet KGB defector *Georgy Golitsyn Georgy Sergeyevich Golitsyn (russian: Георгий Сергеевич Голицын) (born January 23, 1935 in Moscow) is a prominent Russian scientist in the field of Atmospheric Physics, full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (lat ... (born 1935), Soviet physicist and writer on nuclear winter See also * :Galitzine family {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 In Antarctica
1957 (Roman numerals, MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday, common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade. Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricket), dismissed for having ''handled the ball'', in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 In The Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1959 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents * First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Nikita Khrushchev * Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Kliment Voroshilov * Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Nikita Khrushchev Events January * January 2 – The Soviet Union successfully launched the Luna 1 satellite from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Luna 1 became the first man-made object to escape the pull of the Earth's gravity. * January 4 – At 0259 GMT, the Luna 1 satellite became the first man-made object to pass the moon on its way to solar orbit as the first artificial planet. President Eisenhower congratulated Soviet scientist on achieving "a great stride forward in man's advance into the infinite reaches of outer space", while House leader John W. McCormack commented that "it is time America awoke to its peril". * January 20 – Soviet For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 In The Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1958 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents * First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Nikita Khrushchev * Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Kliment Voroshilov * Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Nikolai Bulganin (until 27 March), Nikita Khrushchev (starting 27 March) Events * 1958 Soviet nuclear tests March * 16 March – Soviet Union legislative election, 1958 May * 15 May – Sputnik 3 is launched. August * 23–27 August – 1958 Grozny riots September * 2 September – 1958 C-130 shootdown incident Births * 2 January – Vladimir Ovchinnikov, pianist * 28 February – Natalya Estemirova, activist (died 2009) * 22 June – Serhiy Kot, Ukrainian historian (died 2022) Full date missing * Olga Tsepilova, sociologist See also * 1958 in fine arts of the Soviet Union * List of Soviet films of 1958 References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 In The Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1957 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents * First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Nikita Khrushchev * Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Kliment Voroshilov * Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union – Nikolai Bulganin Events * 1957 Soviet nuclear tests * Doctor Zhivago (novel) is published in Italy by Boris Pasternak after being rejected by Soviet censors. May * May – The Anti-Party Group attempts to overthrow Nikita Khrushchev. July * 28 July – The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students is opened. September * 26 September – Soviet submarine M-256 sinks after one of its diesel engines explodes. * 29 September – Kyshtym disaster October * 4 October – Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, is launched. November * November – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition arrives in Antarctica. * 7 November – The dog La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Antarctic Expeditions
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a Federation, federal union of Republics of the Soviet Union, fifteen national republics; in practice, both Government of the Soviet Union, its government and Economy of the Soviet Union, its economy were highly Soviet-type economic planning, centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Saint Petersburg, Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kyiv, Kiev (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian SSR), Tas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Fourth Soviet Antarctic Expedition was an expedition in Antarctica led by Aleksandr Gavrilovich Dralkin. According to ''Soviet News'': :The expedition ... made a scientific trek from the shores of the Indian Ocean to the Geographical South Pole and back, covering a distance of nearly 2500 miles to the Vostok Station. See also * Soviet Antarctic Expedition * Kharkovchanka Kharkovchanka (Russian: Харьковчанка, "Woman of Kharkov"), code name: Manufacture 404S, is a model of Antarctic off-road vehicle made circa 1957–1958 in the Soviet Union, designed and built by the Kharkov Transport Engineering Plant ... References # Eds (June 1960) "The Record" in ''The Geographical Journal''. 126(2):248–55 04 Soviet Antarctic Expedition 04 Soviet Antarctic Expedition 04 Soviet Antarctic Expedition 04 1958 in Antarctica 1959 in Antarctica 1960 in Antarctica {{antarctica-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Soviet Antarctic Expeditions
List of Antarctic expeditions by the Soviet Union is a list of expeditions from the Soviet Union to Antarctica. Expeditions ordered by date See also * Soviet Antarctic Expedition * List of Antarctic expeditions * List of Russian explorers The history of exploration by citizens or subjects of the Russia, Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire, the Tsardom of Russia and other Russian predecessor states forms a significant part of the history of Russia as well as th ... {{Polar exploration List Expeditions by the Soviet Union Soviet Antarctic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Second Soviet Antarctic Expedition was led by Aleksei Treshnikov on the continent; the marine expedition on the "Ob" was led by I. V. Maksimov. The "Ob" left Kaliningrad on 7 November, 1956. Three ships were used to transport the expedition, all diesel-electric. The two main ships were as for the first expedition: RV ''Ob'' (flagship; captain )) and RV "Lena" (captain A. I. Vetrov). The third ship was ''Kooperatsiya'' (captain A. S. Yantselevich), used mainly as a transport vessel. The tasks of the expedition were: # Relief of the first expedition # Full scale scientific work for the International Geophysical Year (IGY) This included glacier mapping and wildlife tracking, among other things. # Organisation of two IGY scientific stations near the south geomagnetic pole and pole of relative inaccessibility # An inland tractor-sledge traverse for glaciology # Oceanography List of features named by the expedition * Lena Passage, named after the ship ''Lena'' * Lednikov Bay (Bukh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With an annual budget of about $8.3 billion (fiscal year 2020), the NSF funds approximately 25% of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities. In some fields, such as mathematics, computer science, economics, and the social sciences, the NSF is the major source of federal backing. The NSF's director and deputy director are appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate, whereas the 24 president-appointed members of the National Science Board (NSB) do not require Senate confirmation. The director and deputy director are responsible for administration, planning, budgeting and day-to-day operations of the foundation, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of . The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language. The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by '' Homo sapiens'' since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last "pagan" civilisations in Europe to adop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
