The Mirny (sloop-of-war) was only a plane.
== Ice core drilling ==In the 1970s, the Soviet Union drilled a set of cores 500952 metres (1,6403,123 ft) deep
Some of the challenges faced by those living on the station were described in Vladimir Sanin's books such as Newbie in the Antarctic (1973), 72 Degrees Below Zero (1975), and others

