Yuny Strait () is a strait in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. It is covered with ice most of the year.
History
Initially named
Proliv Yungshturm () after the
Roter Jungsturm of the German Communist Youth, following the Great Patriotic War, its name was changed to
Yuny (Youth).
[ Архипелаг, открытый последним (Северная Земля)][ Исследование Северной Земли][ Плавание на ледоколе «Садко» 1935 г.][ Ушаков Г. А. По нехоженной земле]
Geography
The Yuny Strait is a maximum -wide strait that separates Pioneer Island from Komsomolets Island, connecting the
Kara Sea in the northwest with the Red Army Strait in the southeast.
It runs roughly in a northwest/southeast direction and its confluence with the Red Army Strait is located to the southwest of
Cape October. The minimum width of Yuny Strait is .
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