Talk:List of Antarctic expeditions by the Soviet Union

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This article has been created to aggregate and the Russian expeditions to Antarctica. It can be merged at a later to date to the main article List of Antarctica expeditions, once the incomplete, uncited and under researched expeditions are confirmed at an appropriate level. Cordially SirIsaacBrock 18:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

The Soviets appeared to have ended up with an "expedition" each year. I would think that the early ones are worth articles; but the latter year-by-year ones aren't William M. Connolley 17:04, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I think that you might be right, perhaps we should delink them and start on the ones where we can find information, at some point I'll head into the library where we have copies of the SAE reports (I think) and will try and ascertain on which expeditions important stuff happened. I don't think there is any harm in having a stub for each one, but I think that we should concentrate on the important ones first. Which ones do you think are keepers? - FrancisTyers 18:30, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

We just conducted a little research to mention all of them. I don't believe, that "Western" countries organized as much expeditions in the 20 c. as they did in 19 c. Hence, everybody is welcome to conduct one more little research to list all "Western" ones. By the way, certain amount (available in the web for each expedition) of "Western" scientists "did not hate" to work on Soviet stations.

I have no idea, why you think, that only eatly expeditions were important, do you know enough about each of them to speak so?

And finally, Russian expeditions (after 1991) were all annual too, just I have not enough info about them to create respective list. Cmapm 18:24, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Leaders and Russian

Should we keep the leaders and the Russian text (especially if only a few of the leaders are going to be notable - it might be worth just listing them in the main article instead?). - FrancisTyers 23:11, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

I removed the Russian text. There is not much information in the list, maybe leaders should be left? Cmapm 00:03, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Ok, we should leave them for now, but we should endeavour to find the full names of them with a view to creating articles. Not all of them were as famous as M. M. Somov, but I think all are notable. :) - FrancisTyers 00:10, 13 March 2006 (UTC)