site.btaBTA to Present English-Language Special Issue of Its LIK Magazine Dedicated to Bulgaria's Antarctic Research at International Conference Sept. 26

On September 26, the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) will present a special English-language issue of its LIK magazine, dedicated to Bulgaria's Antarctic research. The presentation will take place during an international conference on the collaboration of Balkan countries in polar regions under the EU-backed programmes EUPolarNet-2 and POLARIN, to be held in the resort town of Aheloy.

The Bulgarian-language version of the special issue was published in May.

It covers the second voyage of the Bulgarian naval research ship Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) to Antarctica and back, focusing on the projects of Bulgarian researchers during the expedition. There are some of the highlights of the coverage of the RSV 421 voyage by BTA's special correspondent Emil Granicharov.

Granicharov was on board the ship for a big part of the voyage.

During the 32nd Bulgarian expedition to Antarctica, BTA published video interviews with Bulgarian Antarctic explorers every Tuesday and Thursday. It presented all scientific projects with video, photos and text prepared together with the scientists before their departure. BTA's special correspondent Emil Granicharov was also able to interview some of the researchers during the expedition. BTA journalists then talked to some of them after their return to follow up on the results of their work.

The protagonists in the new issue of LIK are microbiologist Dr. Snezhana Rusinova, biologist Kiril Kandilarov, geologist Dr. Ralitsa Sabeva, physicist Tsvetan Parov, biologist Tihomir Stefanov, marine geologist Dr. Raina Hristova, hydrobiologist Lyubomir Kenderov, ichthyologist and hydrobiologist Eliza Uzunova, musicologist Marina Velikova, electronics specialist Peter Sapundzhiev, biochemist Dr. Albena Alexandrova and physician Atanas Peltekov.

It also carries interviews with Prof. Hristo Pimpirev, head of the 32nd Antarctic expedition and doyen of the Bulgarian Antarctic program, with RSV 421 commanding officer Nikolay Danailov and with Flotilla Admiral Boyan Mednikarov, Head of the Varna Naval Academy.