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During the Cold War, that gap constituted the border between the United States and the Soviet Union, and became known as the "Ice Curtain". In 1987, however, Lynne Cox swam from one island to the other, and was congratulated by both Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan for her feat.
Schmidt Island ice cap – Severnaya Zemlya; Severny Island ice cap – Novaya Zemlya (Largest glacier complex by area in Europe) [3] Toll Glacier (Lednik Tollya) – Bennett Island. De Long Islands; University Glacier (Lednik Universitetskiy) – Severnaya Zemlya; Ushakov Island ice cap [4] – Kara Sea; Vavilov Glacier (Lednik Vavilova ...
Satellite image of Bering Strait. Cape Dezhnev, Russia, is on the left, the two Diomede Islands are in the middle, and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, is on the right. The Bering Strait is about 82 kilometers (51 mi) wide at its narrowest point, between Cape Dezhnev, Chukchi Peninsula, Russia, the easternmost point (169° 39' W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, United ...
The Academy of Sciences Glacier (Russian: ледник Академии наук; Lednik Akademii Nauk) is a large ice cap on Komsomolets Island, Severnaya Zemlya, Russian Federation. It is the largest in Severnaya Zemlya and is also the largest single glacier formation of Russia.
The short distance, 3.8 km (2.4 mi), between the Soviet Union (Big Diomede) and the U.S. (Little Diomede Island, state of Alaska) in the Bering Sea became known as the "Ice Curtain" during the Cold War. A field of cacti surrounding the U.S. Naval station at Guantanamo Bay planted by Cuba was occasionally termed the "Cactus Curtain". [110] [111]
Russian forces were suffering 1,500 casualties a day and were nearing the 700,000 mark for the total killed and wounded since February 2022, Sir Tony Radakin said last month.
Chanel is the baby of the family. In 2015, Ice-T welcomed his daughter with his wife, Coco Austin, whom he married in 2002. When Chanel was born, Ice-T was over 50 years old.
Yermak assisting the stranded warship Apraxin, 1900 1976 Soviet postage stamp honoring the Yermak. An earlier vessel, the schooner Yermak, was commissioned for the 1862 attempt to find the Yenissei river delta by Paul Theodor von Krusenstern, by navigating from Murmansk through the Kara Sea to the destination, but unfortunately was shipwrecked before obtaining success.