Scientist in Antarctica Allegedly Stabs Colleague For Spoiling Book Endings

Spoiler alert - don't spoil the endings to books for people who haven't read them yet. 

A Russian scientist who was working at a Russian research station in the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica is facing murder charges after he allegedly stabbed a colleague for spoiling the endings to books he wanted to read from the outpost's library. 

Engineer Sergey Savitsky, 55, was deported to St. Petersburg where he was arrested after he allegedly used a kitchen knife to stab welder Oleg Beloguzov, 52, because he was "fed up with the man telling him the endings of books" that he wanted to read. 

Beloguzov was evacuated to Chile for medical treatment for a knife wound to his chest and admitted to an intensive care unit. Officials say he's now believed to be in stable condition.

Officials say the stabbing occurred at Bellingshausen Station, a Russian research station in the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica. 

The deputy director of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Alexander Klepikov, said both men were professional scientists who had been working in their expeditions for years. 

"It is down to investigators to figure out what sparked the conflict, but both men are members of our team," Klepikov told Komsomolskaya Pravda. 

Some reports say that the stabbing was fueled by alcohol and the outpost's small living space. 

The station was established in 1968 by a Soviet Antarctic expedition and is one of the few places on the continent that has a tundra climate rather than an ice cap climate. The station was named for a 19th century Russian explorer named Fabian von Bellingshausen. 

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