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[[Russkaya Station]] was established on Cape Burks by the Soviet Union in 1980 and later mothballed in 1991 after the fall of communism.

...ened on 9 March 1980 and officially abandoned after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990.

...about 528,000 tonnes in the [[Southern Ocean]] alone (of which the Soviet Union took in 93%), is now managed as a precaution against overfishing.

.... Most were coastal icebreakers, but Canada, Russia, and later, the Soviet Union, also built several oceangoing icebreakers of around 10,000 ton displacemen ...es started building the Wind class. Research in Scandinavia and the Soviet Union led to a design that had a very strongly built short and wide hull, with a

...by the International Whaling Commission, and illegal whaling by the Soviet Union finally halted in the 1970s, by which time 330,000 blue whales had been cau ...best estimates show an increase of 7.3% per year since the end of illegal Soviet whaling, but numbers remain at under 1% of their original levels. Recovery

:* Russia (as the Soviet Union)

...hed 125,000. North Pacific kills alone are estimated at 28,000. The Soviet Union deliberately under-recorded its catches; the Soviets reported catching 2,82

...ral air temperature ever recorded on Earth was −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) at the Soviet (now Russian) Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983.[63] For compari ...aty System. The treaty was signed by twelve countries including the Soviet Union (and later Russia), the United Kingdom, Argentina, Chile, Australia, and th