The islands, known to researchers, remain understudied due to the complicated logistics and weather conditions - though the archipelago was discovered some 150 years ago MOSCOW, August 23. /TASS ...

ARKHANGELSK, November 3. /TASS/. The polar night began on Wednesday on the Franz Josef Land Archipelago, Russia’s northernmost territory. The polar night will stay for 133 days, Advisor to Director of ...

NAGURSKOYE, Russia (AP) — During the Cold War, Russia’s Nagurskoye airbase was little more than a runway, a weather station and a communications outpost in the Franz Josef Land archipelago. It was a ...

This story appears in the August 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Feodor Romanenko raises his arms. “Dear colleagues,” he says, with his usual puckish smile, and then launches into his ...