Sovetskaya was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

research station in

Kaiser Wilhelm II Land Kaiser Wilhelm II Land is a part of Antarctica lying between Cape Penck at 87° 43'E and Cape Filchner at 91° 54'E. Princess Elizabeth Land is located to the west, and Queen Mary Land to the east. The area is claimed by Australia ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...

that was established on 16 February 1958 and closed on 3 January 1959. The surface

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was initially reported to be ; however, it was later revised to . Reached on 16 February 1958 by the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition for International Geophysical Year research work, it closed on 3 January 1959. Its

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reporting ID was 89557.

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Outposts of Antarctica Polar exploration by Russia and the Soviet Union Outposts of Kaiser Wilhelm II Land Soviet Union and the Antarctic 1959 disestablishments in the Soviet Union 1959 disestablishments in Antarctica 1958 establishments in Antarctica {{KaiserWilhelmIILand-geo-stub

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