Abstract: The recent years are associated with active development of the coastal areas of the Russian arctic regions including a construction of the facilities of the extraction and processing of the hydrocarbons, the civil and military facilities. The nuclear weapon tests, performed by the USSR and other nuclear countries in the second half of the XX century, lead to the global radioactive fallout, including the fallout on costal areas of the arctic regions of the USSR. Five most powerful nuclear munitions were tested on the Novaya Zemlya Test Site in t...
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Topics:
Environmental protection
Environmental health
Physical geography