Balgarianovinite.com Members of the Bulgarian community in the southern Argentine city of Comodoro Rivadavia are expected to welcome officially the crew and scientists of the research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) on Tuesday, February 24. The official delegation for the reception is expected to include the city’s Deputy Mayor Maximiliano Sampaoli and the Chair of the Cyril and Methodius Bulgarian Society, Tsenka Genova.
RSV 421 left Antarctica on February 17 and arrived in Comodoro Rivadavia on February 23, one day ahead of schedule.
On Tuesday, the Central Hall of the Cultural Centre in Comodoro Rivadavia will host an exhibition titled Yesterday and Today, featuring historical and contemporary photographs, alongside an exhibition of drawings and paintings by the group Metoditos. A performance of Bulgarian music and dance will also take place, featuring the Metoditos and Kirilcheta dance ensembles and the musical group Orpheus. Special performances will be given by Viento Sureno and Javier Masa.
Around 2,000 descendants of Bulgarian immigrants live in Comodoro Rivadavia. The city is home to the Cyril and Methodius Bulgarian Society, founded in 1989 with the main aim of bringing together descendants of Bulgarians who settled in Argentina in the 1930s. The society includes the folk dance ensemble Kirilcheta and the music group Orpheus, which perform at celebratory events organized by the Bulgarian community and present Bulgarian culture and traditions to the wider Argentine public.
Comodoro Rivadavia is the largest city in the central part of the San Jorge Gulf coast. It has a population of around 180,000 and is the largest city in the Chubut province, located in the Argentine part of Patagonia. Founded in 1901, the city is named after Commodore Martin Rivadavia, a key figure in the development of southern Argentina. Following the discovery of oil in the area in 1907, many immigrants, including Bulgarians, arrived in Comodoro Rivadavia to work in the oil fields and in the refinery built in 1922. A 1,770-kilometre gas pipeline was later constructed to the Argentine capital Buenos Aires.
RSV 421 set sail for Antarctica on November 7, 2025, 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 RSV 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 Community in Comodoro Rivadavia to Welcome Research Vessel Crew 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-02-24 06:58:00 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