A new mountain on Novaya Zemlya was discovered at the beginning of the XIX century and named after the first Russian navigator who circumnavigated our planet on a ship, Ivan Kruzenshtern. However, there is no Mount Kruzenshtern on modern maps. The scientific director of the Complex Expedition of the Northern Fleet and the RGS, Colonel Sergei Churkin, proposed to return the the highest point of Novaya Zemlya its name. The set of documents was approved by the Arkhangelsk Regional Assembly of Deputies and sent to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
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