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New season of South Pole research opens
A new season of South Pole research has opened: the 17th Belarusian Antarctic expedition was launched at the National Academy of Sciences. This year, 14 people will go to Antarctica: 9 specialists who already have experience working on the ice continent, 5 young researchers of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
54 countries of the world work in Antarctica, including Belarus. For the first time, domestic specialists began to study the ice continent in the late 1950s as part of Soviet expeditions. Since 2006, the republic has been conducting independent scientific research at the South Pole of the planet. Today, for the 17th time, Belarusian scientists will go to Antarctica to confirm: the pursuit of truth is an occupation worthy of a hero. And although the weather is not suitable for flying, the team is warm and cozy.
The Belarusian trace in Antarctica was left two centuries ago. Then, after the Russian Antarctic Expedition, the islands of Polotsk and Berezina appeared on the map. Belarusians went to the South Pole 16 times, where they implemented scientific programs: often without sleep or rest, and sometimes with a risk to life, because science never solves a problem without posing dozens of new ones.
The task No. 1 for the Belarusian polar explorers was posed by the President on October 17 at a meeting with scientists and participants of Belarusian Antarctic expeditions.
We need to think about how your research can be applied in the real sector right now. There must be specific results. This will contribute to the development of competencies and related areas, stimulate high-tech production.
For several generations of Belarusian polar explorers, scientist Alexei Gaidashov has been leading the Antarctic scientific battle.
Today he turned 65, but one can only envy the level of physical and moral training and vigor, because in the winter cold everyone is young.
Since the first years of the Belarusian Antarctic expeditions, we have been bringing samples, materials, and observation results obtained with great difficulty. We obtain the necessary material and results. And the task of the teams of scientists and teams of managers is to further advance these results here on the mainland.
The first sections of the Belarusian Antarctic station "Mount Vechernyaya" opened in 2015, and according to the canons of the Belarusian mentality, the station is one of the most hospitable: residential modules, a kitchen, laboratory sections, a medical block, which even has an ultrasound machine and X-ray. Thanks to the support of the President, every year the expedition is replenished with new devices, devices, and complexes. One of the youngest members of the ice team is responsible for the psychological calm of his colleagues - he establishes communications and an Internet connection at the station so that every Belarusian scientist in Antarctica can warm up with the family warmth from Belarus.
It is important to show the world community that we are full participants in the scientific exploration of the sixth continent, that Belarus has its own station in Antarctica, which we are expanding and developing. After all, this is our Belarusian scientific diplomacy in Antarctica, where, as in space, there is always room for unbiased and constructive relations between different countries. Not only for the development of the country, but also the world.