The marine program of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition was carried out on
board the diesel-turbine powered "Ob" (1955-1958) as part of the
International Geophysical Year. Supplementary material was also provided
by the Antarctic station "Mirnyi" and the whalers "Slava" and
"Sovetskaya Ukraina". Biological occurrence data was digitised from the
"Biological Reports of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958)"
Volumes 1-3. The First Soviet Antarctic Expedition was led by Mikhail
Somov; his scientific deputy was V. G. Kort. The expedition lasted from
30 November 1955 to 1957 and involved 127 expedition members and 75 crew
members. Three diesel-electric ships were used to transport the
expedition. They were RV "Ob" (flagship; captain I. A. Man), RV "Lena"
(captain A. I. Vetrov) and the refrigerator ship No. 7 (captain M. A.
Tsygankov). The final ship was used only for transporting perishables.
Ob and Lena were icebreakers 130m long and displacing 12,600 tons. On
the 30 November 1955 the first ship ("Ob") left port at Kaliningrad. The
principal task of the expedition was to organise the main base, Mirny,
and perform limited scientific observations. Other tasks were
reconnaissance of sites for the inland bases Vostok and Sovetskaya; and
oceanography of the Indian ocean. The Second Soviet Antarctic Expedition
was led by Aleksei Treshnikov on the continent; the marine expedition
on the "Ob" was led by I. V. Maksimov. The "Ob" left Kaliningrad on 7
November, 1956. The Third Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1957–59) was led
by Yevgeny Tolstikov on the continent; the marine expedition on the Ob
was led by I V Maksimov. Two diesel-electric ships were used to
transport the expedition. RV Ob (flagship; captain I A Man) and
Kooperatsiya (captain A S Yantselevich), used mainly as a transport
vessel. The ships arrived in Antarctica in November – December 1957.
Together with the ships crews the expedition consisted of 445 men, of
whom 183 were scheduled for wintering. The tasks of the expedition
included oceanographic work on the Ob in the southern oceans.Citation: SWPRON (2014): Biological data from the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958). v1.1. Dataset/Occurrence.Online: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=soviet_ant_exp&v=1.1________________Item Page Created: 2016-06-09 02:31 Item Page Last Modified: 2021-06-24 03:01Owner: steinmetzt_NIWASoviet_ant_expNo data edit dates availableFields: id,type,modified,language,bibliographicCitation,institutionCode,collectionCode,datasetName,basisOfRecord,dynamicProperties,catalogNumber,occurrenceRemarks,individualCount,sex,lifeStage,occurrenceStatus,associatedTaxa,eventID,samplingProtocol,eventDate,startDayOfYear,year,month,day,fieldNumber,waterBody,country,stateProvince,county,locality,minimumDepthInMeters,maximumDepthInMeters,decimalLatitude,decimalLongitude,geodeticDatum,coordinateUncertaintyInMeters,footprintWKT,identifiedBy,typeStatus,scientificNameID,scientificName,kingdom,phylum,class,order,family,genus,subgenus,specificEpithet,infraspecificEpithet,scientificNameAuthorship,FID
