Russkaya Station
Russkaya Station
Русская | |
|---|---|
| Coordinates: 74°45′59″S 136°48′10″W / 74.7665°S 136.8029°W | |
| Region | Marie Byrd Land |
| Location | Cape Burks |
| Established | 9 March 1980 |
| Closed | 12 March 1990 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Administration |
| • Body | AARI, Russia |
| Elevation | 126 m (413 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Summer | Up to 10 |
| • Winter | 0 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 |
| Active times | Some summers |
| Website | aari.aq |
The Russkaya Station (Russian: Русская) 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 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.