Second Soviet Antarctic Expedition

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The Second Soviet Antarctic Expedition was in the years 1956-1958 an Antarctic expedition of the Soviet Union , which was led by Alexei Fyodorowitsch Trjoschnikow on the Antarctic continent; the Ob sea ​​expedition , which left Kaliningrad on November 7, 1956 , was led by W. Maksimov .

A total of three ships were used to transport the expedition members and their equipment, all of which were powered by a diesel-electric drive . For the first expedition the RV Ob ( flagship ; captain IA Man) and the RV Lena (captain AI Wetrow) were used as main ships. The third ship was the Kooperazija of captain AS Jantselewitsch, this was mainly used as a transport ship.

The tasks of the expedition were as follows:

  1. Replacement of the first expedition ,
  2. scientific work for the International Geophysical Year (IGY),
  3. Organization of two IGY scientific branches near the magnetic south pole and the pole of inaccessibility ,
  4. the creation of a domestic traverse for sledge tractors for glaciology ,
  5. Oceanography .

See also

literature

  • AW Nudel Man: Soviet Antarctic Expeditions 1955–1959 , Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskva, 1959 (Translated from the Russian by the Israeli Program for Scientific Translation, Jerusalem, 1966 for the National Science Foundation ).