The Russian Vostok complex has been put into operation in Antarctica

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Russia has built an ultra-modern wintering complex “Vostok” in Antarctica, which will certainly allow Russian scientists to conduct a more in-depth study of the coldest continent on the planet. Trial operation of the facility has already started.



The total area of the five modules that make up the Russian research station is about 3 thousand square meters. m. The length of the object reaches 140 m, and the maximum height is 17.5 m. The structure is installed on 36 four-meter supports, which will allow the station to remain free of snow for many years.

In general, the newest Russian wintering complex is a unique structure. It is no coincidence that it is compared to the International Space Station, only on Earth.

The station will have a modern medical block with an operating room, a pressure chamber, as well as a dental and X-ray room, scientific laboratories, technical blocks for a water purification and storage system, an airfield for military transport aviation, a gym, a garage, recreation areas, a sauna and residential and public premises for polar explorers.

For 10 months a year, 35 seasonal specialists and up to 15 winterers will be able to stay at the station and conduct research activities in comfortable conditions.

It is worth noting that the presence of such a modern scientific complex in Russia will ultimately play a huge role for domestic science. However, there is one more important nuance.

Today, Antarctica is considered a neutral territory that does not belong to any country in the world. However, it is difficult to say in modern geopolitical realities how long this status will last.

At the same time, the South Pole is the last unopened storehouse of the planet’s resources, for which a struggle will probably begin in the future. Russia, having built an analogue of the ISS in Antarctica, is demonstrating its readiness to defend its rights to part of the continent.



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a reply to: RussianTroll

The lake is interesting ile give you that, and scientific endeavor a worthwhile cause.

Just keep in mind that Antarctica is governed by the Antarctic Treaty System.

So any territorial claims Russia makes, just like those of other nations, are not recognised under international law due to said treaty.

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ia reply to: RussianTroll

Hi RT

Good read.
Everytime Antarctica is mentioned I always think of Admiral Byrd.

Strange place.
I read a while back a lot of important people had a meeting there,
including Sir attenbourogh.

It seems its melting and there might be an old civilisation to discover.

Whoever has a neighboring research facility better start arming up. You never know who might want to invade.
I like that color blue though, I'll give them that.

The Russians also have a military base, only in the Arctic - “Arctic Trefoil”.



Arctic shamrock

“Arctic Trefoil is a military base of the Russian Federation on the island of Alexandra Land in the Franz Josef Land archipelago, near the village of Nagurskoye. The main task of the base is to provide air defense.

The base includes the world's northernmost permanent building - an administrative and residential complex. The base is the second military facility built in the Arctic to house air defense units of the Russian Northern Fleet. The first was the Northern Clover military base on Kotelny Island in the New Siberian Islands archipelago.

The administrative and residential complex of the base consists of four blocks of the main five-story building and three separate “ellipses” connected to it by heated covered galleries. The total area of the complex is 14,000 m2. The buildings of the complex are painted in the colors of the Russian flag. The administrative and residential complex is designed for autonomous living and performance of official tasks by a garrison of 150 people for 18 months, which is provided by food and fuel storage facilities.

The main building of the administrative and residential complex has a three-pointed star shape in plan, which is where the name of the base came from. It stands on stilts buried in permafrost, and is blown from below, so it is not covered with snow even during strong storms. The heated lower floor is technical, intended for communications. In the center of the building (block G), at the intersection of the beams, there is an atrium, above the central support of which (which is also a flagpole) there is a glass observation deck from which the entire territory of the base is monitored.

In the “ellipses” located between the “rays” of the central building and the galleries connected to it, there are:

-in one there is an infirmary, a gym and an assembly hall;
-in the second there is a dining room with a kitchen and food storage;
- in the third there are command offices and classrooms; this is where the main entrance to the premises of the military base is located (although there are technical exits to the street in each building).
In addition to the main building of the administrative and residential complex, the base includes:

-diesel power plant of four blocks with a total capacity of 4 thousand kilowatts;
-water treatment station for 700 tons of water obtained by disinfecting snow in snow-melting installations SPU-15;
-onshore pumping station for replenishing fuel supplies - receiving fuel and lubricants from the tanker and pumping them to the warehouse;
- sewerage treatment facilities with a wastewater reception and accumulation unit;
- thermal waste treatment complex;
- heated garages for military equipment.
The technical buildings are connected to the administrative and residential complex by a system of covered galleries, which allows the personnel of the military base not to go outside in adverse weather. There is also an Orthodox chapel at the base, built of wood."

a reply to: alwaysbeenhere2

The likes of Corey Goode and David Wilcock spin a good yarn where ancient civilisations and Antarctica are concerned.

Along the lines of 21 and back/blue Avians/black budget space programs/Atlantis/cities under the ice/hidden civilisations, and all that jazz.

Linda Moulton Howe as well with the Spartan One palaver if memory serves.




Not watched them in years but they might be up your street.

Don't hold me to the veracity of their claims all the same.

a reply to: andy06shake

Hi

Thank you.
Will have a look now.

I thought the latest trend was movable scientific stations in Antarctica.

I don't think anyone will be going after the resources there any time soon.

Still, good thread on this.

One thing that caught my eye was a pressure chamber.

Why do they need a pressure chamber. On land.

Are they going deep underground?
Why?

a reply to: theatreboy

It's a scientific research base, and if the studies involve the lake below then certain scientific instruments and equipment may require testing or calibration in a controlled pressure environment.

The pressure chamber could provide a suitable setting for such purposes if they are planing on sending probes or scientific packages under the ice.

a reply to: theatreboy

In 1984, there was a fire at the old Soviet Vostok station. There were burnt people. To save their lives, a pressure chamber and medicines were dropped from the plane by parachute, since it was impossible to land. The polar explorer's life was saved.

For burns and hypoxia, a pressure chamber is needed.

a reply to: RussianTroll

It is 25 years since lake Vostok first came to the publics attention with the X -files movie and the cordinates shown in the movie lead to the magnetic anomaly there , Then Richard Hoagland had articles linking weird happenings there .

2016 was the year for strange visits ? When I mentioned about the vast numbers of dignitaries going there out of season on Facebook I was sent a message by a famous American director to take the post down about all the cool kids heading to Antarctica for holidays .

I used Facebook very rarely back then and did not know how to delete a post and when I logged back in my account was locked ???? .

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Then we have Buzz Aldrin going on about the evil there and having to be flown out soon after

I flew to Antarctica for many years from 1985 to 1995, we would drop off and pick up the scientist for the summer event. We staged out of Christchurch, and it was called Operation Deep Freeze. We would land on an ice runway at McMurdo station. Two cool things there, no pun intended, there is an active volcano nearby and it looks like the traditional squared-off top with smoke coming out. The other thing to see is Commander Scott had a hut there and you would just walk on in it and see all the supplies still there and even blubber stacked up. It was always a fun mission.

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: theatreboy

It's a scientific research base, and if the studies involve the lake below then certain scientific instruments and equipment may require testing or calibration in a controlled pressure environment.

The pressure chamber could provide a suitable setting for such purposes if they are planing on sending probes or scientific packages under the ice.

There’s a lot of scuba diving that goes on in lake Vostok. This is probably a recompression chamber to treat divers with decompression sickness (AKA “the bends”).

I've always wanted to go to antarctica. I know I"ll never get there. It's too expensive to go. And now I"m too old to travel like that. It looks stunning in the pictures. I'd love to see a penguin colony. Lucky scientists.

originally posted by: Xtrozero
I flew to Antarctica for many years from 1985 to 1995, we would drop off and pick up the scientist for the summer event. We staged out of Christchurch, and it was called Operation Deep Freeze. We would land on an ice runway at McMurdo station. Two cool things there, no pun intended, is there is an active volcano nearby and it looks like the traditional squared-off top with smoke coming out. The other thing to see is Commander Scott had a hut there and you would just walk on in it and see all the supplies still there and even blubber stacked up. It was always a fun mission.

Ever fly a former astronaut out www.cbc.ca...#:~:text=Buzz%20Aldrin%20was%20flown%20out%20of% 20Antarctica%20to,was%20on%20a%20visit%20with%20a%20tour%20group.

originally posted by: stonerwilliam

Ever fly a former astronaut out

No medevacs and nobody I would recognize. The flight was about 6 hours and 1/2 way we had to do a go/no go call because the weather there could go from blue skies to zero vis in a short period. I still have all my gear too. My feet are size 15 so my white bunny boots are HUGE!

originally posted by: FlyersFan
I've always wanted to go to antarctica. I know I"ll never get there. It's too expensive to go. And now I"m too old to travel like that. It looks stunning in the pictures. I'd love to see a penguin colony. Lucky scientists.

I would love to go to the desert part and look for meteorites.

a reply to: RussianTroll

It's getting pretty crowded down there.



Hope it doesn't capsize, like Guam.

originally posted by: CarlLaFong
It's getting pretty crowded down there.

Poor penguins will probably get squeezed out.
Humans ruin everything.