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Matochkin Strait or Matochkin Shar (Russian: Ма́точкин Шар) is a 323 km2 (125 sq mi) strait, structurally a fjord, between the Severny and Yuzhny Islands of Novaya Zemlya. It connects the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea.

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Matochkin Strait

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Matochkin Strait or Matochkin Shar (Russian: Ма́точкин Шар) is a 323 km2 (125 sq mi) strait, structurally a fjord, between the Severny and Yuzhny Islands...

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Matochkin

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Matochkin may refer to: Yuri Matochkin, Russian politician Matochkin Strait This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Matochkin...

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Novaya Zemlya

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Island and the southern Yuzhny Island, which are separated by the Matochkin Strait. Administratively, it is incorporated as Novaya Zemlya District, one...

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Tsar Bomba

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Novaya Zemlya, 15 km (9.3 mi) from Mityushikha Bay, north of the Matochkin Strait. The detonation was monitored by United States intelligence agencies...

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List of Arctic expeditions

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Spitzbergen 1768–1769: F. F. Rozmyslov explores Novaya Zemlya and the Matochkin Strait 1770–1771: Samuel Hearne traces the Coppermine River to the Arctic...

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Sukhoy Nos

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corner of the island, 15 km (9.3 mi) from Mityushikha Bay, north of Matochkin Strait, which separates Severny from Yuzhny Island, the southern island of...

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Yuzhny Island

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islands in the world. It is separated from Severny Island by the narrow Matochkin Strait, which is covered with ice most of the year. West of Yuzhny Island...

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Andrei Durnovtsev

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At Cape Sukhoi Nos, 15 km (9.3 mi) from Mityushikha Bay, north of Matochkin Strait, at 11:33 am. The tests were monitored by a government commission headed...

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Mityushikha Bay

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near the SW end of the island, just north of the western end of the Matochkin Strait. The fjord narrows about 20 km (12 mi) to the east from its mouth....

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Nikolai Pinegin

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Zakharov's team did not go to Krestovaya Bay, but travelled 450 km to Matochkin Strait and returned to Russia by ship. Pinegin erroneously wrote in his report...

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Convoy PQ 17

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reconnaissance aircraft, finding themselves unstuck, they proceeded to the Matochkin Strait. They were found there by a flotilla of corvettes, who escorted the...

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Severny Island

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Severny Island is separated from Yuzhny Island (Southern) by the narrow Matochkin Strait. Forty percent of the island is covered by the Severny Island ice cap...

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List of Russian explorers

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Location of the Matochkin Strait...

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Operation Wunderland

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western entrance of the Kara Strait and U-456 (Kapitänleutnant Max-Martin Teichert) to the west end of the Matochkin Strait. From 11 to 17 August, U-255...

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Avgust Tsivolko

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the Baer expedition towards Novaya Zemlya. He was the one to map the Matochkin Strait in the course of this expedition. In 1838 Tsivolko was put in charge...

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Arctic naval operations of World War II

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until 13 August 1940 for ice conditions to allow passage through the Matochkin Strait into the Kara Sea. Komet proceeded east with the assistance of three...

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Leo Gradwell

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Luftwaffe aircraft, finding themselves unstuck they proceeded to the Matochkin Strait in Novaya Zemlya. They were found there by a flotilla of corvettes...

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Johann Nepomuk Wilczek

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the Isbjørn sailed first to Spitsbergen, then to Novaya Zemlya. From Matochkin Strait, some excursions were made onto the land. Continuing their journey...

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Boris Chukhnovsky

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by taking the aerial photos of Novaya Zemlya in the region of the Matochkin Strait. In 1927, he dropped out of the Naval Academy and started to work full-time...

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History of Franz Josef Land

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their boats for Novaya Zemlya on 21 June 1882. They reached a beach on Matochkin Strait on 2 August, where they rendezvoused with the Willem Barents and the...

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Operation Zarin

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were to be laid by U-boats as part of Unternehmen Zar off the narrow Matochkin Strait between Severny Island and Yuzhny Island of Novaya Zemlya in Operation...

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Otto Kalvitsa

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Kalvitsa and Chudnovsky were particularly exploring the waters of Matochkin Strait between the Severny and Yuzhny Islands of Novaya Zemlya. In June 1926...

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List of shipwrecks in August 1942

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Union World War II: The motor boat was captured and scuttled in the Matochkin Strait by U-456 ( Kriegsmarine). Generale Antonio Cantore  Regia Marina World...

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List of fjords of Russia

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Mashigin Fjord, Novaya Zemlya Matochkin Shar, Novaya Zemlya (a strait with a fjord structure) Meta Bay, a northern branch of Matochkin Shar Matusevich Fjord,...

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List of shipwrecks in July 1943

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Hamburg. Wreck raised and scrapped in 1949. Zhdanov  Soviet Union World War II: The trawler struck a mine and sank in the Matochkin Strait, Soviet Union....

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Fjord

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Independence Fjord in Greenland—200 km (124 mi) Matochkin Shar, Novaya Zemlya, Russia—125 km (78 mi) (a strait with a fjord structure) Deep fjords include:...

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Rusanov expedition

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August 31 N.S.; left at a Nenets settlement at the western end of the strait of Matochkin Shar on Novaya Zemlya, it was passed on via ship and telegram to...

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List of shipwrecks in October 1942

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Barents Sea 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) off Chernyj Kame Island in the Matochkin Shar Strait (73°15′N 54°17′E / 73.250°N 54.283°E / 73.250; 54.283) with the...

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