The heavily militarized Novaya Zemlya, the site of dozens of nuclear test detonations in the 1960s and 1970s has got its first ATM machine, Rokfeller.ru reports. The cash machine will be used primarily by the military personnel at the far northern archipelago. The Belushya Guba town is located on the 72th altitude. The population of Novaya Zemly totals about 2,700 (2002), of which about 2,600 reside in Belushya Guba. In the period from 1954 to 1990, a total of 224 nuclear detonations with a total explosive energy equivalent to 265 megatons of TNT were made at the archipelago, Wikipedia informs The Northernmost cash machine in the world is located in Longyearbyen on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
