| Russkaya Station | |
| Native Name: | Русская |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Settlement Type: | Antarctic research station |
| Pushpin Map: | Antarctica |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Antarctica |
| Pushpin Relief: | y |
| Subdivision Type: | Region |
| Subdivision Name: | Marie Byrd Land |
| Subdivision Type1: | Location |
| Subdivision Name1: | Cape Burks |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Extinct Title: | Closed |
| Government Type: | Administration |
| Governing Body: | AARI, Russia |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
| Elevation M: | 126 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Summer |
| Population Blank1: | Up to 10 |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Winter |
| Population Blank2: | 0 |
| Utc Offset1: | -6 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Active times |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Some summers |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Activities |
| Blank2 Name Sec1: | Facilities |
The Russkaya Station (Russian: Русская) is a former Soviet and Russian Antarctic research station located on the Ruppert Coast, in Marie Byrd Land in Western Antarctica. The station was proposed in 1973 and approved in 1978. Construction began the next year and it was opened on March 9, 1980 and officially abandoned in 1990.
The station was mothballed in the beginning of 1990. In February 2006, Valeriy Lukin, the head of the Russian Antarctic Expedition (RAE), stated that "There are plans to open the mothballed stations Molodyozhnaya, Leningradskaya and Russkaya in the 2007–2008 season". However, by 2012 it was reported that reactivation plans, although delayed, had not commenced.[2]
For the shore of Antarctica, the winds are considered to be rather strong. The average number of days per year with wind speeds of over in the area around the station is 264, and on 136 of those the wind speed is over . The average temperature in the coldest months of July–August is -20C; in the warmest months of December–January it is -2C. The lowest temperature ever recorded at the station was -46.4C in 1985, and the warmest was 7.4C in 1983. The average overall temperature over the course of a year is -12C, and the average amount of snowfall is around .