In August, 1596, Barents' ship got ice trapped near Novaya Zemlya's Cape Spory Navolok. The sailors built a house, Behouden Huys, to spend the winter, and in 1597 they sailed on boats heading for ...

Russia is preparing to retrieve the wreckage of a nuclear-powered cruise missile from the Barents Sea.

A boat has sunk near Russia’s Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, the Russian Emergency Ministry told TASS Monday. "At 07:30, information was received that the Onega vessel <…> had sunk in the Barents ...