site.btaFourth Group of Participants in Bulgaria’s 34th Antarctic Expedition Arrives at Livingston Island

The fourth group of polar explorers for the season, led by the head of the Bulgarian Antarctic expedition, Prof. Christo Pimpirev, were welcomed with bread and honey at the Bulgarian Antarctic base St Kliment Ohridski on Livingston Island on Sunday. The group was transported from the Bulgarian naval research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) by boat.

The group, led by Pimpirev, includes Flotilla Admiral Boyan Mednikarov, Capt. Prof. Miroslav Tsvetkov, Assoc. Prof. Stoyan Georgiev of the Geological Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Chief Assistant Snezhana Rusinova-Videva of the BAS Institute of Microbiology, Chief Assistant Gergana Georgieva from the Faculty of Physics at St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University, and Prof. Emil Stanev from Germany, as well as Greek researchers Dionysia Rigatou from the University of Athens and Eleni Kytinou from the Institute of Oceanography at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research.

The group also includes BTA special correspondent Simona-Alex Mihaleva, journalist Jivko Konstantinov, journalist Maria Cherneva, camera operator Anna Andreeva, biotechnician Kiril Kandilarov, and writer Vasil Popov.

The group departed from Sofia on January 24.

RSV 421 departed for Antarctica from Varna (on the Black Sea) on November 7. After a month-long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, the ship arrived at the Argentine naval base in the city of Mar del Plata on December 13, 2025. BTA has had a national press club on board since 2022 and another on Livingston Island since February 2024.

The news pieces of the BTA special correspondents on RSV 421 and Antarctica are freely available in Bulgarian and English on the agency's website. They can be used free of charge by all media with reference to BTA.