Yuny Strait (russian: Юный пролив) is a strait in

Severnaya Zemlya Severnaya Zemlya (russian: link=no, Сéверная Земля́ (Northern Land), ) is a archipelago in the Russian high Arctic. It lies off Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula, separated from the mainland by the Vilkitsky Strait. This archipelago s ...

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. It is covered with ice most of the year.

History

Initially named ''Proliv Yungshturm'' (russian: пролив Юнгштурм) after the Roter Jungsturm of the German Communist Youth, following the

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, its name was changed to ''Yuny'' (Youth).Ушаков Г. А. ''По нехоженной земле''
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Geography

The Yuny Strait is a maximum -wide strait that separates Pioneer Island from

Komsomolets Island Komsomolets Island in Severnaya Zemlya Komsomolets Island (russian: остров Комсомолец) is the northernmost island of the Severnaya Zemlya group in the Russian Arctic, and the third largest island in the group. It is the 82nd lar ...

, connecting the

Kara Sea The Kara Sea (russian: Ка́рское мо́ре, ''Karskoye more'') is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. ...

in the northwest with the

Red Army Strait Red Army Strait (russian: Пролив Красной Армии, ''Proliv Krasnoy Army'') is a strait in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. It is named after the Red Army (Krasnaya Armiya). Geography The Red Army Strait is wide. It separates Komsomolets ...

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 Cape October (russian: Мыс Октябрьский; ''Mys Oktyabr’skiy'') is a headland in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. History This cape was named during the 1930–1932 expedition to the archipelago led by Georgy Ushakov and Nikolay Urvantsev ...

. The minimum width of Yuny Strait is .

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References

Straits of Severnaya Zemlya Straits of Krasnoyarsk Krai Straits of the Kara Sea {{KrasnoyarskKrai-geo-stub