It was opened in February 1962. Between 1970 and 1984 numerous meteorology research sounding rockets, such as the MMR06, were launched from Molodyozhnaya . In 1989, the station was mothballed.
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The average temperature varies from −19 °C in the coldest months (July-August), to around 0 °C in January.
In February 2006, Valeriy Lukin, the head of the Russian Antarctic Expedition (RAE), said:
There are plans to open the mothballed stations Molodyozhnaya, Leningradskaya and Russkaya in the 2007-2008 season. This will bring great benefits because these stations are located in the Pacific sector of Antarctica, which is poorly covered by scientific studies.