Rogachevo is a military air base on Novaya Zemlya, Russia located near the settlement of Rogachevo, 9 km northeast of Belushya Guba. It was originally used as a staging base for intercontinental Long Range Aviation bomber flights. The base developed an interceptor role during the 1960s, partly to deter Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird operations in the Arctic region.
Rogachevo (air base)
Novaya Zemlya is an archipelago in northern Russia. It is situated in the Arctic Ocean, in the extreme northeast of Europe, with Cape Flissingsky, on the northern island, considered the easternmost point of Europe. To Novaya Zemlya's west lies the Barents Sea and to the east is the Kara Sea.
Willem Barentsz' ship among the Arctic ice.
A perception of a "Zemblien", a Novaya Zemlya native, by a 17th century French traveller
Landscape in Novaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic National Park
Natural-color satellite image of the Nordenskiöld Glacier group. East coast, Severny