Balgarianovinite.com On Saturday, an official delegation from the Bulgarian naval research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) visited Esperanza Base, Argentina’s Antarctic research station in Hope Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula.
The delegation, led by the Varna Naval Academy’s Fleet Admiral Boyan Mednikarov and Captain Miroslav Tsvetkov, and comprising scientists and other participants in the 34th Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition, was welcomed ashore by the base commander, Fernando Sosa.
Esperanza is inhabited year-round and is home to families with children. Marriages take place here, and children are born on site. The settlement even has a small cemetery, where the ashes of Argentine Antarctic personnel are scattered.
Sosa showed the delegation the base’s Antarctic museum, the church and the school. He noted that the school year at the base begins at the end of February, as in Argentina. Currently, 12 children are enrolled at the base school.
Adm. Mednikarov and Capt. Tsvetkov presented the commander of the Argentine base with a certificate from the Bulgarian Naval Academy, a calendar and traditional Bulgarian food products: lyutenitsa and white cheese.
RSV 421 set sail for the icy continent on November 7 from the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Varna.
BTA has had a national press club on board the vessel since 2022. In February 2024, the national news agency also opened one at the Bulgarian Antarctic Base on Livingston Island. The two press clubs exist thanks to the free support of the RSV 421 crew and of the Bulgarian base, which have provided the necessary premises. These are added to BTA’s other 41 press clubs (33 in Bulgaria, seven abroad in neighbouring countries and countries with large Bulgarian communities, and one mobile called National Book Press Club).
The reports of BTA’s special correspondents from NIK 421 and from Antarctica are freely accessible in a special thematic section of the news agency’s website, entitled “Bulgaria-Antarctica BTA’s Log,” in Bulgarian and English, and may be used freely by all media with attribution to BTA. According to BTA Director General Kiril Valchev, thanks to its special correspondents the agency appears among the first results in a Google search for the phrase “Antarctica correspondent”. Bulgarian Delegation Visits Argentine Antarctic Base Esperanza 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-02-07 19:42:00 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law