14 Months on Franz Josef Land.(Book Review)

From: Arctic | Date: March 1, 2005| Author: Barr, William | Copyright information

14 MONTHS ON FRANZ JOSEF LAND. By MYKHAILO IVANYCHUK. Edited and translated by GLORIA K. ATAMANENKO. Summerland, British Columbia: Danny Evanishen/Ethnic Enterprises, 2002. ISBN 0-9732428-1-7. 216 p., map, b & w illus., bib. Softbound. Cdn$12.95.

In the summer of 1929, largely in response to a Norwegian challenge to Soviet sovereignty over the archipelago of Zemlya Frantsa-Iosifa (Franz Josef Land), the Soviet government established a weather station at Tikhaya Bukhta on...

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