Weather is an endlessly fascinating topic, especially when it comes to extreme conditions. Among the most intriguing of these phenomena is the bone-chilling wind chill, ... Read more The post The ...

A new winter complex has been put into operation at the Vostok station in Central Antarctica (...) The new polar house will be used for the first time by the participants of the 70th Russian ...

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

Rotation camps will be built near new pump stations. All the production facilities of the Vostok Oil project are building constructed with the use of technologies successfully tested in the Vankor ...

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 ...

The coldest temperature measured with a thermometer and accepted as valid by the World Meteorological Organization was at the Russian station, Vostok, where it was -128 degrees Fahrenheit on July ...