MINSK, 20 October (BelTA) – The Belarusian Antarctic expedition plans its first over-wintering in the Antarctic region in 2019-2020, head of the Belarusian Antarctic expedition, deputy head of the Polar Research Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Alexei Gaidashov told media on 20 October, BelTA informs.
“They will spend a year or more in Antarctica,” said Alexei Gaidashov. Belarusian polar-explorers will live at their own Antarctic station.
In a few days the first module of the Belarusian station will go to Antarctica onboard the Russian research vessel Akademik Fyodorov. Five members of the eighth Belarusian Antarctic expedition will conduct a set of assembling works from December 2015 through February 2016.
