Zemlya

* The term Zemstvo is derived from the word Zemlya, meaning land, and might be translated, if a barbarism were permissible, by Land-dom on the analogy of Kingdom, Dukedom, etc.

Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

ExxonMobil said in a statement that Tuesday's agreement includes $3.2 billion to be spent on exploring three giant undeveloped oil and gas fields in the Kara Sea — between the northeastern corner of continental Russia and the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya — in the Arctic as well as a sector in the Black Sea.

ExxonMobil will drill in Russian Arctic, Black Sea 2011

The Russians detonated it on the remote island of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean in October 1961, at the peak of the Cold War.

The World's Most Powerful Things 2009

October 30, 1961 – Five aircraft rose into the arctic sky from the Olyena airbase, headed northeast over the Barents Sea, towards the frozen wastes of Novaya Zemlya Island.

365 tomorrows » 2007 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007

But perhaps global warming might make Jan Mayen Land or Novaya Zemlya more accessible.

Freed Early Laban 2006

[7] Alexander Sabov, "Zemlya dla Katyn: Komentarii," Rossiiskaya Gazeta, September 18, 2007.

A Movie That Matters Applebaum, Anne 2008

* In 1901, the icebreaker Ermak failed to double Novaya Zemlya.

Hansen Step 2 – First Thoughts « Climate Audit 2007

Soviet Union: 715 tests involving 969 devices by official count 2, most at Semipalatinsk Test Site and Novaya Zemlya, and a few more at various sites in Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine.

Think Progress » “Why should I care about North Korea?” 2006

I decided to start from the right side of the map on the Severnaya Zemlya Islands in Siberia and go through the North Pole all the way to Canada.

Crossing the Arctic Ocean on Skis 2002

My friend spent the next ten years in a labor camp on Novaya Zemlya, an island in the Arctic, from the age of seventeen to twenty-seven.

Where Europe Vanishes 2000