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{{Short description|Former Soviet and Russian Antarctic research station}}

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| subdivision_type = Region| subdivision_name = Marie Byrd Land| subdivision_type1 = Location| subdivision_name1 = Cape Burks| established_title = EstablishedArctic and Antarctic Research Institute>AARI, RussiaTITLE=ANTARCTIC STATION CATALOGUE PUBLISHER=COUNCIL OF MANAGERS OF NATIONAL ANTARCTIC PROGRAMS PAGE=123 ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20221022102847/HTTPS://STATIC1.SQUARESPACE.COM/STATIC/61073506E9B0073C7EAAF464/T/611497CC1ECE1B43F0EECA8A/1628739608968/COMNAP_ANTARCTIC_STATION_CATALOGUE.PDF URL-STATUS=LIVE, | elevation_m = 126| population_footnotes =| population_as_of =| population_blank1_title = Summer| population_blank1 = Up to 10| population_blank2_title = Winter| population_blank2 = 0| timezone1 =| utc_offset1 = -6| blank_name_sec1 = Active times| blank_info_sec1 = Some summers| blank1_name_sec1 = Activities| blank1_info_sec1 =| blank2_name_sec1 = Facilities| blank2_info_sec1 =www.aari.aq/default_en.html|aari.aq}}}}The Russkaya Station () is a former Soviet and Russian Antarctic research station located on the Ruppert Coast, in Marie Byrd Land in Western Antarctica. The station was proposed in 1973 and approved in 1978. Construction began the next year and it was opened on March 9, 1980 and officially abandoned in 1990.The station was (wikt:mothball#Verb|mothballed) in the beginning of 1990. In February 2006, Valeriy Lukin, the head of the Russian Antarctic Expedition (RAE), stated that “There are plans to open the mothballed stations Molodyozhnaya, Leningradskaya and Russkaya in the 2007–2008 season”. However, by 2012 it was reported that reactivation plans, although delayed, had not commenced.WEB,basementgeographer.com/antarctic-research-stations-that-didnt-survive-part-i/, Antarctic Research Stations That Didn’t Survive, The Basement Geographer, 16 November 2013, 10 July 2016,

Climate

For the shore of Antarctica, the winds are considered to be rather strong. The average number of days per year with wind speeds of over {{convert|15|m/s}} in the area around the station is 264, and on 136 of those the wind speed is over {{convert|30|m/s}}. The average temperature in the coldest months of July–August is {{convert|-20|C|F}}; in the warmest months of December–January it is {{convert|-2|C|F}}. The lowest temperature ever recorded at the station was {{convert|-46.4|C|F}} in 1985, and the warmest was {{convert|7.4|C|F}} in 1983. The average overall temperature over the course of a year is {{convert|-12|C|F}}, and the average amount of snowfall is around {{convert|166|mm}}.

See also

• List of Antarctic research stations
• List of Antarctic field camps
• Soviet Antarctic Expedition
• Crime in Antarctica

Further reading

• BOOK, Bockheim, James G.,books.google.com/books?id=rGunCQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Russkaya+Station%22&pg=PA185, The Soils of Antarctica, 2015-05-22, Springer, 978-3-319-05497-1, en, 185–194,

References

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External links

• Official website Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
• www.aari.nw.ru/projects/Antarctic/stations/russkaya/russkaya_en.html" title="web.archive.org/web/20060525125710www.aari.nw.ru/projects/Antarctic/stations/russkaya/russkaya_en.html">AARI Russkaya Station page
• www.comnap.aq/facilities" title="web.archive.org/web/20080424075823www.comnap.aq/facilities">COMNAP Antarctic Facilities
• www.comnap.aq/publications/maps/comnap_map_edition5_a0_2009-07-24.pdf/view" title="web.archive.org/web/20110220115654www.comnap.aq/publications/maps/comnap_map_edition5_a0_2009-07-24.pdf/view">COMNAP Antarctic Facilities Map

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