Krupskoi

Krupskoi
Krupskoi on a satellite photo of Pioneer Island in the lower left
Waters	Kara Sea , Arctic Ocean
Archipelago	Severnaya Zemlya
Geographical location	79 ° 41 ′  N , 91 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 79 ° 41 ′  N , 91 ° 40 ′  E
length	17.5 km
width	10 km
surface	100 km²
Highest elevation	49  m
Residents	uninhabited

Krupskoi ( Russian остров Крупской , German  also Krupskaja Island ) is an uninhabited Russian island in the Kara Sea . It belongs geographically to the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago and administratively to the Siberian Taimyr Autonomous Okrug , which was incorporated into the Krasnoyarsk Territory on January 1, 2007 .

Krupskoi is located southwest of the Pioneer Island , from which it is separated in the north by the Saliw Kalinina and in the east by the Proliw Lodotschny, which measures only 100 m at its narrowest point. In the south, behind the Proliw Krasnoi Armii (Red Army Road) are the Sedov Islands . Krupskoi is 17.5 km long and up to 10 km wide. It is flat and free of ice in summer. The highest point with 49 m is in the northwest of the island.

Krupskoi was discovered on May 29, 1931 by Georgi Alexejewitsch Uschakow and was taken for a peninsula of the Pioneer Island. Ushakov named her after Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaja , the Russian revolutionary and wife of Lenin .

Web links

• topographic map on a scale of 1: 200,000

Individual evidence

1. ^ GA Ushakow: Unknown island country . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1954, p. 285.
2. ↑ Lidia Vlasowa: Women's names often found on cards , November 15, 2014, accessed on August 13, 2016 (Russian).