![]() ![]() It has also been used as radio shack and post office (Post Office Antarctica 1090 maintained by Bulgarian Posts Plc) since 1994. Occupied during all summer seasons since 1993, the hut has proved most suitable under local conditions. It remained the base’s only dwelling facility (with tents used when additional accommodation was necessary) until a new main building was completed in 1998. Kliment Ohridski (often shortened by non-Bulgarians to Ohridski base) on 11 December 1993. It was renovated and, together with the adjacent Russian Hut, a small storehouse, commissioned as Antarctic base St. The prefabricated hut made in Pazardzhik was assembled on Livingston Island during the First Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition by the team of Zlatil Vergilov, Asen Chakarov, Stefan Kaloyanov and Nikolay Mihnevski from 26 to 28 April 1988, with the logistic support of the Soviet Research Ship Mikhail Somov under Captain Feliks Pesyakov. This somewhat peculiar name became established both in common usage and also in the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute’s official documentation. ![]() The name Lame Dog Hut dates to around 1999, when the hut was found bouncing in the wind with its support legs damaged during the winter. The experience gained during the construction and maintenance of the Lame Dog Hut was instrumental in the subsequent expansion of the Bulgarian base. It has a particular technical and architectural value in its materials, design and method of construction, namely in the ingenuity and skills demonstrated by the Bulgarian scientists and technical personnel who, by using material at hand, converted what was, basically, a standard dwelling container designed for use in the then Bulgarian logging industry in northern Russia, into a cozy and hospitable Antarctic facility much favoured by people from various nations visiting or working at the Bulgarian base. The Lame Dog Hut is a Bulgarian-made 6 by 3.5 m sandwich panel structure (metal face sheets, polyurethane foam core) with a mess area and accommodation capacity for 6 persons. It stands between two branches of the melt-water Rezovski Creek, surmounted by Pesyakov Hill and Sinemorets Hill, and overlooking Grand Lagoon. Kliment Ohridski base and 200 m from the coast of South Bay, at elevation 15.5 m. The hut is located at 62☃8′29″S 60☂1′53″W, which is 70 m south by east of the main building of St.
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