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Novaya Zemlya Novaya Zemlya
Novaya Zemlya , archipelago, c.35,000 sq mi (90,650 sq km), in the Arctic Ocean between the Barents and Kara seas, NW Russia. It consists of two main islands (separated by Matochkin Strait) and many smaller ones. The mountains, rising to c.3,500 ft (1,070 m), are a continuation of the Urals. In the... Read more
Barents Sea Barents Sea
Barents Sea arm of the Arctic Ocean, N of Norway and European Russia, partially enclosed by Franz Josef Land on the north, Novaya Zemlya on the east, and Svalbard on the west. Its waters are warmed by the remnants of the North Atlantic Drift , so that its ports, including Murmansk and Vardö,... Read more
Arctic Ocean Arctic Ocean
Arctic Ocean the smallest ocean, c.5,400,000 sq mi (13,986,000 sq km), located entirely within the Arctic Circle and occupying the region around the North Pole. Oceanography and Environment Nearly landlocked, the Arctic Ocean is bordered by Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Russia, and Norway. The Bering... Read more
Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold
Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjöld, Baron , 1832-1901, Swedish geologist and arctic explorer, first to navigate the Northeast Passage, b. Finland. He served as geologist on several expeditions to Spitsbergen under Otto Torrell, the noted Swedish geologist, on one of which he found plant fossils of... Read more
Kara Sea Kara Sea
Kara Sea , Rus. Karskoye More, shallow section of the Arctic Ocean, off N Russia, between Severnaya Zemlya and Novaya Zemlya. It has an average depth of 420 ft (128 m). It receives the Ob, the Yenisei, the Pyasina, and the Taimyra rivers, and is important as a fishing ground. Its main ports are... Read more
New Siberian Islands New Siberian Islands
New Siberian Islands Rus. Novosibirskiye Ostrova, archipelago, c.10,900 sq mi (28,200 sq km), N Siberian Russia, in the Arctic Ocean between the Laptev and East Siberian seas, part of the Sakha Republic. The archipelago is separated into two groups by the Sannikov Strait. The northern group, the... Read more
Ivan Kramskoi Ivan Kramskoi
Kramskoi, Ivan (b Novaya Sotnya, nr. Ostrogozhsk, 8 June 1837; d St Petersburg, 6 Apr. 1887). Russian painter. In 1863 he led a revolt of fourteen students at the St Petersburg Academy; they left together in protest because they thought its approach was out of touch with modern life, and in 1870... Read more
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
CHERENKOV, PAVEL ALEKSEYEVICH(b. Novaya Chigla, Voronezh province, Russia, 28 July 1904;d. Moscow, USSR, 6 January 1990), experimental physics, optics, nuclear and elementary particle physics, accelerators, cosmic rays.The Soviet physicist Cherenkov (sometimes also spelled Cerenkov or Tscherenkow)... Read more
Franz Josef Land Franz Josef Land
Franz Josef Land , Rus. Zemlya Frantsa Iosifa, archipelago, c.8,000 sq mi (20,720 sq km), in the Arctic Ocean N of Novaya Zemlya, Russia. It consists of 85 islands of volcanic origin, including Aleksandra Land, George Land, Wilczek Land, Graham Bell Island, Hooker Island, and Rudolf Island.... Read more
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