6/8/2023 0 Comments Animaciya planeta zemlya![]() According to the Census of 2017, the population comes to 2,910 people, of which 2,149 live in the village of Belushya Guba. Nowadays the archipelago administratively belongs to Arkhangelsk region. The first permanent settlement was established in 1870 at Malye Karmakuly. His expedition found a ruined Russian settlement and other traces of human activity.ĭuring the later voyage by Feodor Litke in 1821–1824, the west coast of the archipelago was mapped. In 1553 English voyager, Sir Hugh Willoughby visited the archipelago with the expedition of the Muscovy Company.ĭutch explorer Willem Barents rounded the north point of Novaya Zemlya in 1594, and stayed for one winter on the northeast coast. That time Novgorod merchants explored Arctic and could reach the archipelago, though there is no written evidence about it. ![]() Supposedly, Russians knew of Novaya Zemlya starting from XII-XIII centuries. ![]() When the Soviets established Novaya Zemlya nuclear test site in 1950s, they forced all Nenets to move to the continent. Indigenous peoples of the archipelago are Nenets. The two main islands are Severny (northern) and Yuzhny (southern), which are separated by Matochkin Strait. Novaya Zemlya consists of two major islands and a number of smaller ones.
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