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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.




Geography


The Matochkin Strait is one of the largest fjords in the world.
The banks along the strait are high and steep. Its length is approximately 100 kilometres (60 mi) and its width in its narrowest part is approximately
600 metres (660 yd). The strait is covered with ice for most of the year. There are abandoned fishing settlements along the strait (Matochkin Shar, Stolbovoy).




History


The Tsar Bomba was detonated in October 1961, in the vicinity of Matochkin Strait, over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.
It is also the site where, from 1963 to 1990, about 39 underground nuclear tests took place in a vast array of tunnels and shafts under Mount Lazarev and other massifs. After 2000, Russia started to reactivate the test site by enlarging old tunnels and starting construction work. Each summer since then various subcritical hydronuclear experiments have taken place. In 2004, Rosatom reportedly performed a series of subcritical hydronuclear experiments with up to 100 grams (3.5 oz) of weapon-grade plutonium each.




See also


List of fjords of Russia




References

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• Matochkin Strait
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• Novaya Zemlya
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• List of Arctic expeditions
• Tsar Bomba
• Yuzhny Island
• Sukhoy Nos
• Andrei Durnovtsev
• Severny Island