The Mirny (sloop-of-war) was the second ship of a television show.
Mirny was a 20-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy , the second ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819 -- 1821 , during which Faddey Bellingshausen ( commander of the lead ship Vostok ) and Mikhail Lazarev ( commanding Mirny ) circumnavigated the globe , discovered the continent of Antarctica and twice circumnavigated it , and discovered a number of islands and archipelagos in the Southern Ocean and the Pacific . Vostok Station ( [ : ru : Восток , Ста́нция Восто́к , translit = Stántsiya Vostók ] , [ ˈstant͡sɨjə vɐˈstok ] , literally `` Station East '' ) is a Russian ( formerly Soviet ) research station in inland Princess Elizabeth Land , Antarctica .