Belushya Guba located on Novaya Zemlya). There is no regular passenger navigation. Belushya Guba Belushya Guba (, lit. "beluga whale" "bay"), also Belushye, is a work settlement and the administrative center of Novaya Zemlya District of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Gusinaya Zemlya peninsula of the Yuzhny Island of the Novaya Zemlya arctic archipelago. Its population was reported as a decline of more than 20% from It is the main permanent settlement of the island territory of Novaya Zemlya. A large proportion of its population is made up of military personnel associated with the nuclear test sites located on the island.
Yuzhny Island Yuzhny Island Yuzhny () is the southern island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, lying north of Russia. It has an area of , which while smaller than the northern island of Severny, makes it one of the largest islands in the world. It is separated from Severny Island by the narrow Matochkin Strait, which is covered with ice most of the year. West of Yuzhny Island lies the Barents Sea, and to the east the Kara Sea. Originally home to the Nenets people, the island was largely evacuated in the 1950s to make way for nuclear weapons testing. Yuzhny Island