petersburg money for the expedition and it was equipped with pinworms julius bayer and karl weert.rue, they were looking not for islands, but for the northeastern passage, the shortest sea route to the far east, but the schooner fell into ice captivity for a month and drifted with ice and so carried it to an uncharted land, which the austrians named after their emperor, having landed, they studied nature and fauna, but did not understand that this is an archipelago consisting of many islands in 1916. franz josef land became part of the russian empire. and then the soviet union today there is a polar station, a geophysical laboratory and a frontier post nagorskaya on august 30, 1918 in moscow