The base is supported by 36 three-meter-high piles, which should keep it snow-free for years. Up to 35 seasonal specialists and up to 15 winter visitors can live and work at Vostok.

Russian scientists at the Vostok intracontinental station have collected 100 samples of space dust which will be sent to St Petersburg ...

These unusual ideas included a deep pit under the planet and a top-secret military base that had been blurred out. However, it was quickly confirmed that the dark patch was actually Vostok Island, one ...

The Russian government said early Thursday (Dec. 5) that the new wintering complex at the country's Vostok Station in Antarctica had been put into operation. In a post on X, the Russian embassy in ...

The lake is located near Russia's Vostok research station, roughly 800 miles (1,300 km) from the South Pole. Although scientists have occupied Vostok since 1957, they had no idea the lake existed ...

It is noted that the Vostok 2022 strategic maneuvers will bring together over 50,000 troops and more than 5,000 items of armaments and military hardware MOSCOW, August 29. /TASS/. The Vostok 2022 ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

BEIJING, December 19. /TASS/. Russia pitched the Vostok Oil project to China as early as in October, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told reporters. "Vostok Oil was also talked about today ...

Lake Vostok is a giant lake in Antarctica that is similar in size to North America's Lake Ontario. But unlike Lake Ontario, Lake Vostok sits beneath more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) of wind-blown ...

These unusual ideas included a deep pit under the planet and a top-secret military base that had been blurred out. However, it was quickly confirmed that the dark patch was actually Vostok Island ...