Советская станция у Полюса недоступности

the former Soviet research station

It is from the South Pole, and approximately from Sovetskaya. The surface elevation is It was reached on 14 December 1958 by an 18 man traversing party of the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition. Its WMO ID is 89550.

Equipment and personnel were delivered by an Antarctic tractor convoy operated by the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition. The station had a hut for four people, a radio shack, and an electrical hut. These buildings had been constructed on the tractors used during the traverse, serving as accommodation. Next to the hut, an airstrip was cleared and a Li 2 aircraft landed there on 18 December 1958. The outpost was equipped with a diesel power generator and a transmitter. On 26 December the outpost was vacated indefinitely. Four researchers were airlifted out, and the remaining 14 members of the party returned with the tractors. The station was deemed to be too far from other research stations to allow safe permanent operation, so it was left to be used for future short term visits only. The 8th Soviet Antarctic Expedition visited the site on 1 February 1964 and left five days later. The American Queen Maud Land Traverse reached the Pole of Inaccessibility from Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station on 27 January 1965. The crew were flown out by a C 130 on 1 February. On 15 December 1965 a new American crew arrived by C 130 to make observations, refurbish the snowcats, and continue the Queen Maud Land Traverse, zig zagging to the newly installed Plateau Station, where they arrived on 29 January 1966. The 12th Soviet Antarctic Expedition visited the site in 1967. Following a proposal by Russia to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, the buried building and emergent bust, along with a plaque commemorating the conquest of the Pole of Inaccessibility by Soviet Antarctic explorers in 1958, has been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 4).