Progress Station#See also

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Progress ({{langx|ru|Прогресс}}) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) research station in Antarctica. It is located at the Larsemann Hills antarctic oasis on the shore of Prydz Bay.

The station was established by the 33rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition{{in lang|ru}} [http://www.ivki.ru/kapustin/journal/dubrovin9.htm Kapustin Arctica-Antarctica philatelia] on April 1, 1988, and was moved to another place on February 26, 1989{{in lang|ru}} [http://south.aari.ru/stations/progress/progress_ru.html Progress Station] at AARI website In 2000, work was temporarily halted but it reopened in 2003.

A landing field is located close to the station for air connection with other stations. From 1998 to 2001 works were performed to transfer transportation operations to Progress from the Mirny Station and make it the main support base for Vostok station.

In 2004, work began on a year-round facility at the station. On October 4, 2008, a fire broke out at the construction site resulting in the death of a construction worker and two serious injuries. The fire resulted in the complete loss of the new structure, as well as damage to the station's communications and scientific equipment.{{cite web

| author=Sudhir Khandelwal

| url=http://himalayanadventurer.blogspot.com/2008/10/fire-accident-at-progress-russian.html | title=FIRE ACCIDENT AT PROGRESS, THE RUSSIAN ANTARCTIC STATION

| date=11 October 2008 | access-date=2008-10-18 }}

In 2013, the construction of a new wintering complex was completed. It is a residential unit with a sauna and gym, rooms for meteorologists and radio operators, a medical care unit which doubles as a regional hospital, and its own galley.{{cite web | url=http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=1049555 | title=Новый зимовочный комплекс в Антарктиде: "курорт" среди вечной мерзлоты }}

In 2022, the wintering complex was modernized and enlarged. An additional adjacent airfield, complementing the pre-existing Progress Skiway and called Zenit after the St. Petersburg football club, was built from scratch and features a runway of 3,000 meters length and 100 meters width, which is also able to accommodate larger planes such as the Ilyushin IL-76.{{cite web | url=https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/84853

|title=New Russian runway in Antarctica starts receiving aircraft

|publisher = Interfax | date= November 11, 2022

|access-date = November 12, 2022

|archive-url = https://archive.today/20221111231027/https://interfax.com/newsroom/top-stories/84853/

|archive-date = November 11, 2022 }}