Lenin in Antarctica is the most rarely visited monument in the world. To the pole of relative inaccessibility At the pole in inaccessible space
Where would you prefer to escape to reliably hide from human eyes and from accumulated problems? A desert island could relieve the stress of everyday worries. But did you know that on Earth there is the most distant point from the nearest piece of land? Perhaps this option will interest you most.
Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility
The idea of calculating the location of this point came to geographers only at the end of the 20th century, when this became possible thanks to new technologies. The most remote place from land was immediately dubbed the oceanic pole of inaccessibility. Calculations were carried out using a special computer program. As a result, the treasured place of all Robinsons was discovered in the South Pacific Ocean. Since its official name is too cumbersome, the remote point received a shorter but succinct nickname - Nemo Point. It was a kind of tribute to the author of adventure novels, Jules Verne, and his most famous seafaring anti-hero. It is noteworthy that in Latin “nemo” means “no one.” It is impossible to think of a more symbolic name for the oceanic pole of inaccessibility. 
The nearest islands surrounding the point on three sides are more than one thousand miles away
More than one thousand nautical miles separate Nemo from the three nearest oceanic islands. Ducie Island, which belongs to the Pitcairn oceanic volcanic ridge, is located north of the point and is uninhabited. The closest neighbor on the northeastern side is Motu Nui Island, a representative of the Easter Island chain. In fact, it is the top of a mountain, the foot of which is lost 2 thousand miles above sea level. This point is known as the westernmost point of Chile, and its rocky surface is uninhabited. The closest southern neighbor of Nemo's point is the islands of snow-covered Antarctica. Thus, if by some miracle you manage to get to the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, there will not be a single living soul within a radius of 2 thousand kilometers.
Official opening
Experts have long discussed the possibility of calculating the most distant sea point, but could not calculate its exact coordinates until the advent of modern technology. The Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility was officially discovered in 1992 by the Croatian-born Canadian research engineer Hrvohe Lukatela. The scientist did not assemble an expedition, but preferred to stay on land and completely trusted a special computer program. There is no doubt that these calculations are as accurate as possible. He did not use pins attached to a flat projection of the globe. Instead, the computer modulated a precise ellipsoidal layout of the planet. According to scientists' forecasts, Nemo's point is unlikely to move from its current coordinates. The movement of volcanic rocks, as well as the formation of new uninhabited rocky islands, is not expected here in the near future. 
This is a unique place
A slight change in the geographic coordinates of the oceanic pole of inaccessibility may occur if calculations are applied using updated computer programs. And as a result of coastal erosion, changes in the outlines of the nearest geographic neighbors of a point are possible. But even in this case, the coordinate error will be insignificant. This place is unique; there are no other points on the surface of the Earth that could compare with it. Three uninhabited islands at once are equidistant from the oceanic pole of inaccessibility.
The closest neighbors of a point are astronauts
You will be surprised, but the closest people to Point Nemo are the astronauts and astronauts piloting the International Space Station. The ISS orbital altitude above the Earth is 416 kilometers. While the nearest populated area is 2,700 kilometers away from the point. 
This area is known in space circles as the space dump
Space agencies around the world actively use the vast desolate area as a space dump. It was here that the Russian orbital station Mir found its final resting place. Planned scuttlings of equipment are carried out here by European and Japanese space services simply because it is the quietest and most deserted place without shipping traffic.
What happens to space waste?
Remnants from space travel are scattered along the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Spacecraft do not retain their structure after re-entry into the atmosphere. Most of them burn out. Only fuel tanks and elements of rocket engines are preserved. They are made of titanium alloys or stainless steel. They contain complex carbon fibers that are resistant to high temperatures. Smaller elements of the spacecraft burn up in the atmosphere, leaving behind nothing but a light show.
The impressive remains of the 143-ton Mir space station have washed up on the beaches of Fiji. The main part of the massive structure sank in the depths of the ocean. Like shipwrecks, space waste creates a specific habitat around itself. They are colonized by organisms living at depth. If the remaining fuel does not leak through the tanks, it does not pose a threat to underwater life. 
Speculation and rumors
In 1997, oceanographers recorded a mysterious noise at a distance of about 2 thousand kilometers east of Nemo. This led to great excitement among the public, as the sound was stronger than the voice of a blue whale. Hence the rumors that a mysterious sea monster had settled somewhere nearby. However, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hastened to reassure the public. Mysterious low-frequency noise is created through the destruction of icebergs.
The pole of relative inaccessibility is a place in Antarctica, the most distant from all shores of the sixth continent.
The Pole of Inaccessibility (coordinates 82°06′ S 54°58′ E), is located at an altitude of 3.718 meters above sea level, the ice thickness here is 2980 meters. The average annual air temperature is about −57°C. The distance to the South Pole is 463 kilometers.
The Pole of Inaccessibility was first conquered on December 14, 1958 by Soviet polar explorers (17 people). They reached the target in five tractors, accompanied by an all-terrain vehicle with fuel. The expedition was led by Hero of the Soviet Union Evgeniy Ivanovich Tolstikov.
A new Soviet station was created at the Pole of Inaccessibility. Polar explorers raised the flag of the USSR, installed a radio mast, and equipped a meteorological site. A well was drilled 60 meters deep to measure the temperature inside the snow cover. Seismic sounding of the ice sheet was carried out at the station. The runway was prepared. They built a small house. A bust of Lenin was erected on its roof.
A photograph of the structure taken at that time has survived:
The Soviet base at the Pole of Inaccessibility was briefly used as a meteorological base.And then they abandoned it, and the buildings were filled with snow for fifty years. Today the former weather base looks like this:
In 2007, members of a Norwegian-American expedition, having reached the so-called Pole of Relative Inaccessibility and celebrating New Year 2008 there, were shocked by an unexpected discovery. They found a bust of Vladimir Ilyich there. They didn’t get into the Soviet change house - it was covered with snow up to the roof. But the plastic bust withstood the pressure of the elements. For 50 years, nothing has happened to him - Ilyich only became a little weathered and yellowed. Scientists took pictures in front of it.
But what an interesting question arises: if three meters of snow have accumulated in fifty years, then what is the depth of the entire snow cover of Antarctica, which has “accumulated” over millions of years?!
Pole of relative inaccessibility- a point that is most difficult to reach due to its remoteness from convenient transport routes. The term describes a geographic location rather than a physical phenomenon and is of interest more to travelers.
North Pole of Inaccessibility
North Pole of Inaccessibility ( 84°03′ s. w. 174°51′W d. / 84.050° N. w. 174.850° W d. / 84.050; -174.850 (G) (I)) is located in the pack ice of the Arctic Ocean at the greatest distance from any land. The distance to the North Geographic Pole is 661 km, to Cape Barrow in Alaska - 1453 km and at an equal distance of 1094 km from the nearest islands - Ellesmere and Franz Josef Land. The first attempt to reach the point was made by Sir Hubert Wilkins in an airplane in 1927. In 1941, the first expedition to the Pole of Inaccessibility by plane was carried out under the leadership of Ivan Ivanovich Cherevichny. The Soviet expedition landed 350 km north of Wilkins, thereby being the first to directly visit the northern pole of inaccessibility.
South Pole of Inaccessibility
This is the point in Antarctica that is farthest from the coast of the Southern Ocean. There is no general consensus about the specific coordinates of this place. The problem is how to understand the word "coast". Either draw the coastline along the border of land and water, or along the border of the ocean and ice shelves of Antarctica. Difficulties in determining the boundaries of land, the movement of ice shelves, the constant flow of new data and possible topographic errors all make it difficult to accurately determine the coordinates of the pole. The Pole of Inaccessibility is often associated with the Soviet Antarctic station of the same name, located on 82°06′ S w. 54°58′ E. d. / 82.100° S w. 54.967° E. d. / -82.100; 54.967 (G) (I). This point is located at a distance of 878 km from the south pole and 3718 m above sea level. Based on other data, determines the pole at 85°50′ S w. 65°47′ E. d. / 85.833° S w. 65.783° E. d. / -85.833; 65.783 (G) (I), .
According to ThePoles.com, if you consider only land, the most distant point would be 82°53′14″ S w. 55°04′30″ E. d. / 82.88722° S w. 55.07500° E. d. / -82.88722; 55.07500(G) (I), and if we take into account ice shelves - / / -83.84361; 65.72500(G) (I). The latest point, calculated by the British Antarctic Survey, is described as "the most accurate available to date."
The South Pole of Inaccessibility is much more remote and much more difficult to reach than the Geographic South Pole. The Third Soviet Antarctic Expedition, led by Evgeniy Tolstikov and conducting research within the framework of the International Geophysical Year, on December 14, 1958, founded the temporary station “Pole of Inaccessibility” at the coordinates 82°06′ S w. 54°58′ E. d. / 82.100° S w. 54.967° E. d. / -82.100; 54.967 (G) (I). Currently, the building is still located in this place, and there is a statue of Lenin on it, looking towards Moscow. The place is protected as historical. Inside the building there is a visitor's book that can be signed by the person who reaches the station. By 2007, the station was covered with snow, and only the statue of Lenin on the roof of the building was still visible.
Ramón Larramendi, Juan Manuel Viu and Ignacio Oficialdegui reached the Pole of Inaccessibility according to the British Antarctic Survey in coordinates on December 14, 2005 during the Spanish trans-Antarctic expedition 83°50′37″ S w. 65°43′30″ E. d. / 83.84361° S w. 65.72500° E. d. / -83.84361; 65.72500(G) (I) using kites.
Partly on foot, partly with the help of kites, they reached the old Soviet station on January 20, 2007.
Ocean Pole of Inaccessibility
Located at coordinates 48°52′ S w. 123°23′ W d. / 48.8767° S w. 123.3933° W d. / -48.8767; -123.3933(G) (I). It is also called Point Nemo. This is the place in the ocean farthest from land. It is located in the South Pacific Ocean, at a distance of 2,688 km from the nearest land: Dusi Atoll in the north, Motu Nui (part of the Easter Islands) in the northeast and Maher Island ( English) (located near the larger Siple Island off Mary Byrd Land, Antarctica) in the south. The Chatham Islands are further away to the west, and southern Chile is to the east.
Continental Pole of Inaccessibility
Has coordinates ( 46°17′ N. w. 86°40′ E. d. / 46.283° N. w. 86.667° E. d. / 46.283; 86.667 (G) (I)), a place on land farthest from the oceans. It is located in Eurasia, in northern China and is 2645 km away from the nearest coastlines. It is 320 km north of the major city of Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in the desert. Nearest settlement: Kosh-Tologoi (Chinese: 和什托落盖, pinyin: héshítuōluògài, pal. : Hashitologuy, coordinates 46°34′ N. w. 85°58′ E. d. / 46.567° N. w. 85.967° E. d. / 46.567; 85.967 (G) (I)), located within 50 km to the northwest, Shazget (Chinese: 夏孜盖乡, pinyin: xiàzīgài xiāng, pal. : Xiazigai, coordinates 46°20′ N. w. 86°22′ E. d. / 46.333° N. w. 86.367° E. d. / 46.333; 86.367 (G) (I)) about 20 km to the west and Sulug (Chinese: 苏拉格, pinyin: sūlāgé, pal. : Sulage, coordinates 46°15′ N. w. 86°50′ E. d. / 46.250° N. w. 86.833° E. d. / 46.250; 86.833 (G) (I)) about 10 km to the east.
Interestingly, the continental and oceanic poles of inaccessibility have approximately the same radius: the Eurasian pole is only 43 km closer to the ocean than the Pacific pole to land.
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- At 7:00. Very sad! Very sad!The Emperor said his thanks and bowed. Prince Andrei came out and was immediately surrounded on all sides by courtiers. Kind eyes looked at him from all sides and gentle words were heard. Yesterday's adjutant reproached him for not staying at the palace and offered him his home. The Minister of War approached, congratulating him on the Order of Maria Theresa, 3rd class, which the Emperor had bestowed upon him. The Empress's chamberlain invited him to see Her Majesty. The Archduchess also wanted to see him. He didn’t know who to answer, and took a few seconds to collect his thoughts. The Russian envoy took him by the shoulder, took him to the window and began to talk to him.
Contrary to Bilibin’s words, the news he brought was received joyfully. A thanksgiving service was scheduled. Kutuzov was awarded the Grand Cross by Maria Theresa, and the entire army received decorations. Bolkonsky received invitations from all sides and had to make visits to the main dignitaries of Austria all morning. Having finished his visits at five o'clock in the evening, mentally composing a letter to his father about the battle and about his trip to Brunn, Prince Andrei returned home to Bilibin. At the porch of the house occupied by Bilibin, a britzka half-stuffed with belongings stood, and Franz, Bilibin’s servant, with difficulty dragging his suitcase, came out of the door.
Before going to Bilibin, Prince Andrei went to a bookstore to stock up on books for the trip and sat in the shop.
- What's happened? – asked Bolkonsky.
- Ach, Erlaucht? - said Franz, with difficulty loading the suitcase into the chaise. – Wir ziehen noch weiter. Der Bosewicht ist schon wieder hinter uns her! [Ah, your Excellency! We go even further. The villain is already on our heels again.]
- What's happened? What? - asked Prince Andrei.
Bilibin came out to meet Bolkonsky. There was excitement on Bilibin’s always calm face.
“Non, non, avouez que c"est charmant," he said, "cette histoire du pont de Thabor (bridge in Vienna). Ils l"ont passe sans coup ferir. [No, no, admit that this is a delight, this story with the Tabor Bridge. They crossed it without resistance.]
Prince Andrei did not understand anything.
- Where are you from that you don’t know what all the coachmen in the city already know?
- I am from the Archduchess. I didn't hear anything there.
– And didn’t you see that they are stacking everywhere?
- I haven’t seen it... But what’s the matter? – Prince Andrei asked impatiently.
- What's the matter? The fact is that the French crossed the bridge that Auesperg defends, and the bridge was not blown up, so Murat is now running along the road to Brunn, and today they will be here tomorrow.
- Like here? How come they didn’t blow up the bridge when it was mined?
– And this is what I’m asking you. Nobody, not even Bonaparte himself, knows this.
Bolkonsky shrugged.
“But if the bridge is crossed, it means the army is lost: it will be cut off,” he said.
“That’s the thing,” answered Bilibin. - Listen. The French are entering Vienna, as I told you. Everything is very good. The next day, that is, yesterday, gentlemen marshals: Murat Lann and Belliard, sit on horseback and go to the bridge. (Note that all three are Gascons.) Gentlemen,” says one, “you know that the Tabor Bridge is mined and counter-mined, and that in front of it is a formidable tete de pont and fifteen thousand troops, who have been ordered to blow up the bridge and not let us in.” But our sovereign Emperor Napoleon will be pleased if we take this bridge. The three of us will go and take this bridge. “Let’s go,” others say; and they set off and take the bridge, cross it and now with the entire army on this side of the Danube they are heading towards us, towards you and towards your messages.
“No more joking,” said Prince Andrei sadly and seriously.
This news was sad and at the same time pleasant for Prince Andrei.
As soon as he learned that the Russian army was in such a hopeless situation, it occurred to him that he was precisely destined to lead the Russian army out of this situation, that here he was, that Toulon, who would lead him out of the ranks of unknown officers and open the first path for him to glory! Listening to Bilibin, he was already thinking how, having arrived at the army, he would present an opinion at the military council that alone would save the army, and how he alone would be entrusted with the execution of this plan.
“Don’t be kidding,” he said.
“I’m not joking,” continued Bilibin, “there is nothing fairer and sadder.” These gentlemen come to the bridge alone and raise white scarves; They assure that there is a truce, and that they, the marshals, are going to negotiate with Prince Auersperg. The officer on duty lets them into the tete de pont. [bridge fortification.] They tell him a thousand Gascon nonsense: they say that the war is over, that Emperor Franz has appointed a meeting with Bonaparte, that they want to see Prince Auersperg, and a thousand Gasconades, etc. The officer sends for Auersperg; These gentlemen hug the officers, joke, sit on the cannons, and meanwhile the French battalion enters the bridge unnoticed, throws bags of flammable substances into the water and approaches the tete de pont. Finally, the Lieutenant General himself appears, our dear Prince Auersperg von Mautern. “Dear enemy! The flower of the Austrian army, the hero of the Turkish wars! The enmity is over, we can give each other a hand... Emperor Napoleon is burning with the desire to recognize Prince Auersperg.” In a word, these gentlemen, not for nothing Gascons, shower Auersperg with beautiful words, he is so seduced by his so quickly established intimacy with the French marshals, so blinded by the sight of Murat’s mantle and ostrich feathers, qu"il n"y voit que du feu, et oubl celui qu"il devait faire faire sur l"ennemi. [That he sees only their fire and forgets about his own, which he was obliged to open against the enemy.] (Despite the liveliness of his speech, Bilibin did not forget to pause after this mot to give time to evaluate it.) The French battalion runs into tete de pont, the guns are nailed down, and the bridge is taken. No, but what’s best,” he continued, calming down in his excitement by the charm of his own story, “is that the sergeant assigned to that cannon, at the signal of which the mines were supposed to be lit and the bridge blown up, this sergeant, seeing that the French troops running to the bridge, he was about to shoot, but Lann pulled his hand away. The sergeant, who was apparently smarter than his general, comes up to Auersperg and says: “Prince, you are being deceived, these are the French!” Murat sees that the matter is lost if the sergeant is allowed to speak. He turns to Auersperg with surprise (a real Gascon): “I don’t recognize the Austrian discipline so vaunted in the world,” he says, “and you allow a lower rank to talk to you like that!” C "est genial. Le prince d" Auersperg se pique d "honneur et fait mettre le sergent aux arrets. Non, mais avouez que c" est charmant toute cette histoire du pont de Thabor. Ce n"est ni betise, ni lachete... [This is brilliant. Prince Auersperg is offended and orders the arrest of the sergeant. No, admit it, it’s lovely, this whole story with the bridge. This is not just stupidity, not just meanness...]
There are points on the planet called poles. These are geographic and magnetic poles, poles of cold and inaccessibility.
In fact, the poles of inaccessibility have already been conquered by man. And the meaning of the name lies in the inaccessibility of these geographical points due to the remoteness of convenient transport routes.
If the pole of inaccessibility lies on land, it is as far away from the ocean as possible compared to other points on the continent. If it is in the ocean, it means it is as far away from land as possible.
Thus, the oceanic pole of inaccessibility is located 2,688 km from the nearest shore (and this is not the shore of the continent, but an atoll). The oceanic pole of inaccessibility has its own name - Point Nemo. This point is located in the Pacific Ocean, at coordinates 48°52′ S. w. 123°23′ W d.
There is not a single island around for more than 2.5 thousand kilometers!
The continental pole of inaccessibility has almost the same radius: it is only 43 km closer to the ocean shore than Point Nemo is to the nearest land. More than 2.5 thousand km separate the continental pole of inaccessibility from the ocean. It is not difficult to guess that this point is located on the Eurasian continent. The coordinates of the continental pole of inaccessibility are 46°17′ N. w. 86°40′ E. d. This is northern China.
Interestingly, the continental pole of inaccessibility is a truly inaccessible area. This point is located in the desert, 320 km from the city of Urumqi. However, 10 km away there is the village of Sulage, so the continental pole of inaccessibility cannot be called uninhabited.
But the southern pole of inaccessibility, also located on land, is very difficult to reach. After all, he is in Antarctica. Getting to the geographic South Pole is much easier (even tourists do it). The South Pole of Inaccessibility is located at the point furthest from the shore of the Southern Ocean. The geographic pole is about a thousand km away.
Why "about"? The fact is that there is debate about the exact coordinates of the southern pole of inaccessibility. It all depends on what to take as the starting point: the boundary of water and land or the boundary of ice shelves and the ocean? Due to the movement of ice shelves and the refinement of data on the geography of the continent hidden under the ice, it is difficult to accurately determine the pole of inaccessibility.
For a long time, this point was considered to be coordinates 82°06′ S. w. 54°58′ E. d. The Soviet Arctic station was built here with a monument to Lenin, which looks towards Moscow. Now this point has historical significance, since the location of the pole of inaccessibility is being clarified.
With the northern pole of inaccessibility, everything is simpler: it is 84°03′ N. w. and 174°51′ W. d. To the geographical North Pole - 661 km. The distance to the nearest land is 1,094 km (these are the islands of Franz Josef Land and Ellesmere, both are equally distant from the pole of inaccessibility). The nearest continental point is 1,453 km (this is Cape Barrow in Alaska).
The North Pole of Inaccessibility was first conquered in 1941 by Soviet polar explorers led by Ivan Ivanovich Cherevich.
Of course, the concept of “inaccessibility” in this case is very conditional. Some of these poles are much easier to reach than Everest. Rather, it is a beautiful name for a geographical concept that means the maximum distance of a point from the coast, taking into account a number of significant characteristics.
At the end of 1957, the third Soviet Antarctic expedition began work to conquer the Antarctic Pole of Inaccessibility, about which the scientific world knew even less than about the visible side of the Moon.
In the history of Soviet polar research, the 1930s became legendary. In the 1940s, due to the war and post-war economic difficulties, Soviet activity in the Arctic declined sharply. In the 1950s, scientific research in the Arctic resumed, and in the second half of the 50s, Soviet scientists began to explore Antarctica. In January 1956, the First Continental Antarctic Expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences, led by Mikhail Somov, landed on the ice continent, and on February 13, the USSR flag was raised over the first Soviet Antarctic station Mirny. At the end of the same year, the First Expedition was replaced by the Second.
On September 27, 1957, the flagship of the Soviet Antarctic expeditions, the diesel-electric ship Ob, left Kaliningrad. On board were members of the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition, led by E.I. Tolstikov.
2 Mirny
On November 18, the ship arrived at the Mirny roadstead, and on December 13, the unloading of the Ob was completed. 3,600 tons of various cargo were delivered ashore. The third expedition brought 10 tractors. They had wider tracks and special devices that pumped rarefied air into the engines. The new sled was made of metal, with strong carriers and improved couplings.
On December 22, 1957, the second ship of the expedition, the motor ship Kooperatsiya, arrived. He delivered the rest of the expedition members, and perishable food in the refrigerators.
3 Flight to the Pole of Relative Inaccessibility
On December 23, 1957, an IL-12 aircraft took off from Mirny on a reconnaissance flight to the Pole of Inaccessibility. It was piloted by the commander of the air squad of the Third Expedition, V. M. Perov. The route was laid by navigator B. S. Brodkin. The head of the Third Expedition, E.I. Tolstikov, was also on board the plane.
The route passed through Pionerskaya and Komsomolskaya. From Komsomolskaya we turned right - towards the Pole of Inaccessibility. It took eight hours to cover the distance of 2,200 kilometers from Mirny to the Pole of relative inaccessibility. The flight took place in good visibility; virgin snow stretched under the wings of the plane along the entire route.
Over the Pole of Inaccessibility (82° south latitude and 55° east longitude), the plane circled and then turned north and returned to Mirny. The flight lasted 16 hours.
On December 26, 1957, the first train of the Third Expedition left Mirny. It consisted of 10 tractors with two metal sleds each. The sleds were loaded with fuel in barrels and all the necessary equipment for inland stations. There were 32 people on the train, led by engineer A.F. Nikolaev.
On January 2, 1958, the train was at Pionerskaya station, and on January 17 it arrived at Komsomolskaya. On February 3, a train of eight tractors set off towards the Pole of Relative Inaccessibility to create a new station. The tractors walked through virgin snow.
On February 10, 1958, having traveled 540 kilometers from Komsomolskaya station, the train stopped. At the point 78° 24′ south latitude and 87° 35′ east longitude, another inland station was created - Sovetskaya. Five people remained at the station for the winter. On February 17, the empty tractors set off on their return journey, and on March 5 they arrived in Mirny.
5 Polar night
On April 22 the polar night began at Sovetskaya station, and on April 28 at Vostok station. The frosts in the depths of the continent became more and more severe. On May 1 there were frosts of 76°, and on August 25, 1958 at Vostok station the lowest temperature that had never been observed anywhere on the earth’s surface was recorded - minus 87°, 4. At Sovetskaya at that time it was minus 76°, on Komsomolskaya minus 81.
6 Pole of relative inaccessibility
At the end of September, a train of Penguin all-terrain vehicles left Mirny to deliver fuel to Pionerskaya and Komsomolskaya stations. The second train left Mirny on October 23. It was a research train. He headed to the Pole of Inaccessibility to determine the thickness of the glacier and make various observations. At Komsomolskaya station both trains met. Part of the transport went to Vostok station, and the other part, under the leadership of A.F. Nikolaev, to Sovetskaya station.
On November 30, 1958, the train was at Sovetskaya station. E.I. Tolstikov flew here from Mirny. He led the expedition. Four tractors left Sovetskaya station in a southwestern direction and on December 14 arrived at the cherished point - the Pole of relative inaccessibility.
At the final point of the expedition - 82° 06′ south latitude, 54° 58′ east longitude, at a distance of 2100 kilometers from Mirny - Soviet polar explorers created a temporary research station and called it the “Pole of Inaccessibility”. At the station (house with an area of 24 m²) there were four people, a radio station and a power station. The station was used for meteorological, glaciological, geomagnetic and actinometric observations. A well was drilled 60 meters deep to measure the temperature of the snow cover. On the roof of the building, on a high pedestal, a bust of V.I. Lenin was installed, and the state flag of the Soviet Union was raised on the radio mast.
Scientific observations were carried out at the Pole of Inaccessibility for two weeks. A runway was laid out near the station, and on December 17, 1958, an LI-2 plane flew there from Mirny on skis under the command of pilot N.A. Shkolnikov. He took some of the researchers to Mirny. On December 26, the train started its return journey. On January 18, 1959, the participants in the expedition to the Pole returned to Mirny.
