site.btaFebruary 3, 1967: The Bulgarian Flag Is Flown at Mirny Station on Antarctica

БТА, The Mirny Observatory, which was the main Soviet center for Antarctic research. Mirny was a large settlement with many houses, laboratories, workshops, and other facilities, located on the Antarctic Circle, on the shore of the Davis Sea, near the Shackleton Glacier. In the center of Mirny, in front of the radio station, is a post with arrows indicating the direction and distance to cities from which polar explorers have come. Among them is one reading "SOFIA – 13,645 km." Above the radio station, alongside the Soviet flag, the Bulgarian tricolor proudly waves.Pressphoto-BTA, photo reproduction

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03.02.2025 12:07

(BTA)

The Bulgarian national flag was first flown in Antarctica by meteorologist Tsoncho Chapanov. Chapanov was a meteorologist.

He was included in the 12th Soviet Antarctic Expedition as part of an international team that also included scientists from Czechoslovakia and the USA.

Chapanov departed on January 19, 1967 by plane from Leningrad, traveling through India and Indonesia to Australia, from where he arrived at the Soviet polar base Mirny aboard the icebreaker Ob.

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