The 28th Soviet Antarctic Expedition was an expedition to

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undertaken by the

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and the

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from 1982 to 1984. It was led by N. Kornilov and A. Artemyev. The summer Soyuz station was established during this expedition. Extensive hydrological data of the lakes in Central Wohlthat Massif was conducted on this expedition. An ice core, called the Komosmolskaia ice core, was extracted in 1983. Although the GDR could not build a research station as a result of not having signed the

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, it operated a research station near the Soviet

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station. In 1983, six Germans joined the ''28th Soviet Antarctic Expedition'' to research

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, physics of the upper atmosphere,

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and

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