Novaia Zemlia

The mountains between the Caſpian and the lake Aral […] after being divided by the ſtraits of Weygat, reach their termination in the mountains of Novaia Zemlia. […] [W]e are not much more acquainted with the great deſert Ural. However, it is thought the latter goes on increaſing moftly northwards, […] running on with its ſtrongeft part to Novaia Zemlia, and perhaps iſſues alſo a branch weſtward through the lake, which is full of rocky iſlands, quite to the lapland mountains.

1799, William Tooke, “Climate, and Quality of the Soil”, in View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine the Second, and to the Close of the Present Century, volume I, London: […] T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […] and J[ohn] Debrett, […], →OCLC, pages 138 and 141–142

Launched in 1957, the Lenin, the USSR’s first nuclear powered icebreaker, was powered by three OK-150 reactors. In February 1965, there was a loss of coolant incident, and some of the fuel elements melted or deformed inside reactor number two. The debris was removed and stored for two years, and subsequently dumped in Tsivolki Bay near Novaia Zemlia two years later.

2013 July 12, John C.K. Daly, “Nuclear power tries its sea legs”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Mass.: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2013