Will the Russians abandon Mirny to the penguins after 1959. or will they stay?

This paper traces the Soviet responses to initiatives of international scientific institutions for collaborativeresearch in the Antarctic dating from the International Geophysical Year (IGY) through to the formation of the SpecialCommittee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the extension of the IGY f...

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Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Gan, I
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Univ Press 2009
Subjects:
History and Archaeology
Historical Studies
Historical Studies not elsewhere classified
Antarctic
Mirny
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Polar Record
Online Access:http://journals.cambridge.org
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247408007948
http://ecite.utas.edu.au/62631
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Summary:This paper traces the Soviet responses to initiatives of international scientific institutions for collaborativeresearch in the Antarctic dating from the International Geophysical Year (IGY) through to the formation of the SpecialCommittee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) and the extension of the IGY for a year during the International GeophysicalCooperation. It demonstrates the consistently positive attitudes of the USSR to these initiatives and the steps that weretaken at the national level to enable it to continue international collaboration. Other countries with interests in theAntarctic conjectured whether the Soviets had a long term strategy for continuing their presence in the South Polarregion. The evidence suggests that from the day the Soviets set foot on the Antarctic continent, they had no intentionof leaving.

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