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  2. Vostok Station - Wikipedia

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    Vostok Research Station is around 1,301 kilometres (808 mi) from the Geographic South Pole, at the middle of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Vostok is located near the southern pole of inaccessibility and the south geomagnetic pole, making it one of the optimal places to observe changes in the Earth's magnetosphere.

  3. Lake Vostok - Wikipedia

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    Lake Vostok (Russian: озеро Восток, romanized: ozero Vostok) is the largest of Antarctica's 675 known [3] subglacial lakes.Lake Vostok is located at the southern Pole of Cold, beneath Russia's Vostok Station under the surface of the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is at 3,488 m (11,444 ft) above mean sea level.

  4. Vostok - Wikipedia

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    Vostok programme, Soviet human spaceflight project; Vostok (spacecraft), a type of spacecraft built by the Soviet Union; Vostok (rocket family), family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme; Vostok (crater), a crater explored by the Mars rover Opportunity; Vostok 1, the first human ...

  5. Lowest temperature recorded on Earth - Wikipedia

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    Aerial photograph of Vostok Station, the coldest directly observed location on Earth. The location of Vostok Station in Antarctica. The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at ground level on Earth is −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) at the then-Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983 by ground measurements.

  6. Pole of Cold - Wikipedia

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    Vostok station is located at the elevation of 3,488 m (11,444 ft) above sea level, far removed from the moderating influence of oceans (more than 1,000 km [620 mi] from the nearest sea coast), and high latitude that results in almost three months of civil polar night every year (early May to end of July), all combine to produce an environment ...

  7. Igor Zotikov - Wikipedia

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    The Thermophysics of Glaciers [12] and The Antarctic Subglacial Lake Vostok: Glaciology, Biology and Planetology, [6] the later summing up his lifetime of scientific papers on the subject. Zotikov was the first to translate the book The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran into Russian, published by Raduga in 1989.

  8. Vostok programme - Wikipedia

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    The Vostok programme (/ ˈ v ɒ s t ɒ k, v ɒ ˈ s t ɒ k /; Russian: Восток, IPA:, translated as "East") was a Soviet human spaceflight project to put the first Soviet cosmonauts into low Earth orbit and return them safely.

  9. Mirny Station - Wikipedia

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    The station was opened on February 13, 1956, by the 1st Soviet Antarctic Expedition. It was originally used as main base for the Vostok Station located 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) from the coast, this function is now served by Progress Station. [4] In summer, it hosts up to 50 people in 30 buildings, [1] in winter about 40-50 scientists and ...