Built in December 1957, amid the Second Soviet Antarctic Expedition, Russia’s Vostok Research Station is located almost at the very center of mainland Antarctica. Its location is known for extreme ...

Located approximately 2.5 miles beneath Russia’s Vostok Station on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS), which sits at 3,488 metres above mean sea level, lies the largest of the continent’s 675 ...

The Russians, who run the Vostok research station at the surface, said their plan was for the drill to break through the ice into the hidden lake, and automatically withdraw so as not to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday said that his country’s southernmost Vostok research station in Antarctica is “one of the most modern and well-equipped” in the continent ...