Aleksey Aleksandrovich Gaydashov ( Belorussian. Aleksey Alyaksandravіch Gaydashoў ; born 1959) is a well-known Soviet and Belarusian geographer , a polar explorer. Deputy Head of the Republican Center for Polar Research - Head of the Belarusian Antarctic Expedition. He studied at the geographical faculty of BSU . During his studies he conducted scientific activities, participated in expeditions. Three times "Master of Sports of the USSR", champion of the BSSR, USSR, the Armed Forces in military-applied sports, a scuba diver.
| Alexey Alexandrovich Gaydashov | |
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| Belor. Alexey Alyaksandravich Gaidasho | |
| Date of Birth | 1959 |
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After graduation, he served in government agencies and organizations associated with long business trips to remote regions.
From 2006 to 2017 led 9 Belarusian expeditions to the Antarctic.
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First Expedition
In 1988, he was assigned to the Antarctic station Leningradskaya. The station is located in the middle of a glacial plateau on a cliff, at an altitude of 740 m above sea level. It was Gaidashov who managed to fix the record wind speed in Antarctica - 78 m / s (280 km / h). The first expedition of Gaidashov lasted more than a year. For several months on board the ship he was getting back to the shores of the USSR.
Second Expedition
In 2006, President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko supported the initiative of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Belarusian veteran polar explorers to resume research on the polar regions of the Earth, in the same year, our country joined the Antarctic Treaty and, for the first time after a long break, Belarusian specialists again went to Antarctica. From November 3, 2006 to April 2007, Gaydashov, along with another Belarusian Leonid Turyshov, participated in the 52nd Russian expedition to the Molodezhnaya station. Researchers sailed from the St. Petersburg seaport aboard the ship Akademik Fedorov . Gaidashov and Turyshov became the first scientists to represent sovereign Belarus in Antarctica.
Belarusian polar explorers have studied the possibility of creating a Belarusian polar station in Antarctica. The purpose of the expedition of Belarusians was to find a place where the future Belarusian Arctic station will be based. Polar explorers conducted a survey of the canned Russian base " Mount Vechernyaya ". The station is located in the area of glacier activity. During the polar expedition, Belarusians lived at the Mount Vechernyaya field base. Scientists conducted research on all buildings, checked their technical condition, performed a number of scientific studies. Particular attention was paid to the environmental situation - during the period of activity of the Soviet, and subsequently Russian stations, a large amount of waste was accumulated. Prior to this, the station was mothballed for 13 years.
Third Expedition
In 2007-2008, Alexei Gaydashov, along with three other Belarusian researchers (Victor Demin, Igor Byk, Vyacheslav Shpilevsky) participated in the 53rd Russian Antarctic expedition. The expedition lasted about 6 months. Belarusians spent 102 days at the Antarctic field base “ Vechernyaya Gora, ” which the Russian side allocated for temporary accommodation during the first joint expedition. Specialists continued to re-mothball and repair the facilities of the base, which they began during the 2006-2007 expedition, and carried out scientific research.
Links
- Newspaper “Zvyazda”: “Distant Padarozh ў“ land ”, dze narajayutstsa iceberg” (unavailable link) Retrieved July 23, 2019.
- The newspaper "7 days": "Together even in Antarctica"