Ukrainian Antarctic Journal

Vol 21 No 2(27) (2023): Ukrainian Antarctic Journal
Articles

Thirty years of Ukrainian Antarctic Research: Assessing the National Antarctic Program’s institutional achievements within the Antarctic Treaty System

E. Dykyi
State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Kyiv, 01601, Ukraine
D. Cheberkus
State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Kyiv, 01601, Ukraine
A. Fedchuk
State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Kyiv, 01601, Ukraine
O. Pnyovska
State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Kyiv, 01601, Ukraine
V. Malanchuk
State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Kyiv, 01601, Ukraine
Spectrograms of the signal emitted from Vernadsky and received onboard RV Noosfera after reflection from the ionosphere, the black line shows the X component of the geomagnetic field measured at the Vernadsky AIA station. See paper Zalizovski et al. 2024 (page 195). Photo by S. Glotov and from the archive of the SI NASC
Published December 31, 2023
Keywords
  • Antarctic infrastructure,
  • Antarctic science,
  • research vessel Noosfera,
  • scientific output,
  • Vernadsky station
How to Cite
Dykyi, E., Cheberkus, D., Fedchuk, A., Pnyovska, O., & Malanchuk, V. (2023). Thirty years of Ukrainian Antarctic Research: Assessing the National Antarctic Program’s institutional achievements within the Antarctic Treaty System. Ukrainian Antarctic Journal, 21(2(27), 235-255. https://doi.org/10.33275/1727-7485.2.2023.720

Abstract

Ukraine made a significant contribution to the study of the Antarctic. People from Ukraine were part of the expeditions that discovered and explored the Antarctic and conquered the South Pole in the XIX – beginning of the XX century. From the end of the 1950s to the beginning of the 1990s, Ukrainian researchers and engineers made valuable efforts to establish and develop Soviet Antarctic expeditions. With the acquisition of independence, the difficult and ambitious path of studying the Antarctic under the flag of Ukraine began. This article provides a historical overview of the main institutional achievements in the development of Ukrainian Antarctic research from 1993 to the present. Also, it outlines the current state, challenges, and prospects for further developing Ukraine’s National Antarctic Program within the Antarctic Treaty System. The gradual development of the State Special-Purpose Antarctic Research Programs is noted, and the main results are presented. The scientific potential and contribution to international scientific cooperation of Ukraine’s key Antarctic infrastructure facilities are revealed – Vernadsky station as a multi-purpose observatory for monitoring geophysical processes and the impact of climate change on the Antarctic ecosystems, and the ice-capable research vessel Noosfera. It is shown that the environmental protection initiatives and measures developed by Ukraine to regulate tourist activities are an important contribution to the development of the international legal regime of Antarctica.

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