novaya zemlya in English

noun
1
two large uninhabited islands in the Arctic Ocean off the northern coast of Siberian Russia. The name means “new land.”.

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1. The transfer of the Kit to Novaya Zemlya, a major nuclear testing ground, was carried out in secret.

2. Other dramatic optical phenomena associated with this include the Novaya Zemlya effect where the sun appears to rise earlier than predicted with a distorted shape.

3. 43 Comparison of theoretical Barograms computed from the air- cell model with Barograms recorded after the Russian nuclear explosion at Novaya Zemlya on 22 October 1962 (0906 GMT)

4. Meanwhile, some 17,000 containers of radioactive waste were reportedly discarded over a period of 30 years into the waters off the coast of Novaya Zemlya, used by the Soviets as a nuclear test site during the early 1950’s.

5. Arkhangelsk, oblast (province), Russia, along the northern coast of European Russia, from the Gulf of Onega to the Yugorsky Peninsula.Centred in Arkhangelsk city, it encompasses the Nenets autonomous okrug (district) in the east and a number of islands, including the Solovets, Novaya Zemlya, and Franz Josef Land archipelagoes