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The author describes the chronicle of important events related to the official acceptance of the British Faraday Station by Ukraine as well as scientific and organizational measures of state authorities to coordinate and ensure Antarctic research and formation of the Ukrainian Antarctic Akademik Vernadsky Station in 1995-1996. It is noted that Ukraine's receiving of the Faraday Station is a significant geopolitical historical milestone for our country as well as an integral result of the successful implementation of the fundamentally important events described in the article.

The article explores the issues of collecting, structuring and displaying oceanographic information from spatially distributed sources. The aim of the work was to develop services for an intelligent information system (IIS) designed to assess the hydrophysical state of the Black Sea waters by creating a library of ontological descriptions of the processing and displaying information in the IIS software environment. Article describes approaches to the creation of an automated data processing system for the assessment of the hydrophysical state of the Black Sea using the method of recursive reduction. The information about the main functions of IIS for displaying structured data for illuminating the hydrophysical situation is presented. To solve such a problem, a set of cognitive services built on the basis of cognitive IT platforms to ensure the processes of automatic and automated collection of oceanographic data, their structuring and  presentation to the user in an interactive form was applied for the first time. The results of the work can be used during the development of an analytical system for the automation of scientific and applied problems associated with the use of operational oceanographic data.