Balgarianovinite.com Kamen Nedkov, commander of the St Kliment Ohridski Bulgarian Antarctic Base on Livingston Island, told BTA that overall, the 34th Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition was successful both scientifically and logistically. He returned to Bulgaria on Thursday with the final group of the expedition.
The members of the group were welcomed at Sofia’s Vasil Levski Airport by their families and friends, as well as by the head of the expedition and Bulgarian Antarctic Institute President, Prof. Christo Pimpirev.
Among those returning from Antarctica were the doctor of the Antarctic base, Atanas Peltekov; electrical engineer Alexander Bogdev; and logisticians Lyuben Lyubenov, Boiko Koliovski, Antoniya Tilyasheva, and Dragomir Mateev, who serves as the head of logistics for the Bulgarian Antarctic Programme.
The base has been successfully closed and secured, and the team hopes that the next expedition will be able to reopen it easily. “We had enough time and the necessary number of people to do it properly, so we do not expect any major surprises,” said Nedkov. The 34th Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition will end officially when the research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) docks at the port of Varna, which is expected on April 9.
The ship sailed off from Antarctica on February 17.
On that day, Christo Pimpirev, biotechnologist Kiril Kandilarov, writer Vasil Popov and journalist Jivko Konstantinov returned on a flight from Rome. Pimpirev said the 34th Bulgarian expedition was the best organized, had a very rich scientific programme and involved many foreign scientists.
The Bulgarian naval research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii departed for Antarctica from Varna (on the Black Sea) on November 7, 2025.
BTA has had a national press club on board the ship since 2022 and another on Livingston Island since February 2024. BTA Director General Kiril Valchev said ahead of the fourth voyage to Antarctica that the news agency will have its special correspondent in January and February 2026.
The two press clubs exist thanks to the generous support of RSV 421 and Bulgaria’s St Kliment Ohridski Base, which provide the necessary facilities. These two press clubs are added to BTA’s other 41 national press clubs (33 in Bulgaria, seven abroad in neighbouring countries and in nations with large Bulgarian communities, and one mobile National Book Press Club), Valchev said at the time.
The news items of BTA’s special correspondents on RSV 421 and Antarctica are freely available in Bulgarian and English on the news agency’s website. They can be used free of charge by all media, with attribution to BTA. Valchev recalled that thanks to its correspondents, the news agency appears among the top results on Google when searching for the phrase “Antarctica correspondent”. Kamen Nedkov: Overall, 34th Antarctic Expedition Was Scientific and Logistical Success 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-03-12 17:29:03 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