Bulgarian and Mongolian polar researchers have cooperated in Antarctica for over 10 years, often sharing the Livingston Island base. Mongolia also has plans to set up a research laboratory near the Bulgarian facility, BTA writes.

A Bulgarian-Mongolian monument celebrating the Cyrillic alphabet was unveiled on 3 March, Bulgaria’s 140th anniversary of its liberation from Ottoman Rule. But the monument is located in an uncanny place: Livingston Island, in western Antarctica, close to where the Bulgarian Arctic base is located, according to The Calvert Journal.

The similarities between the two countries don’t stop here, as Mongolia is one of the few non-Slavic nations that use the Cyrillic alphabet.