Novaya Zemlya is located in an archipelago in the Russian Arctic, consisting of several small islands and two main ones; Séverny Island and Yuzhny Island. A nuclear testing site was established in 1954 that remained active until 1990. It is considered that at least 224 nuclear tests were carried out and the most powerful hydrogen bomb ever launched was tested there; The Tsar Bomb.
Due to these experiments the local fauna, such as the polar bear and the arctic fox, has been affected by radioactivity and its genes have mutated.
