List of islands of the Russian Arctic regions. The list of fall archipelagos and detached island. Islands of the archipelago, are listed in the relevant articles. Very small islands, rocks appropriate to list in the articles of the nearby larger islands, or not mentioned at all.Victoria - a small detached arctic island located in the Barents Sea between the Spitsbergen archipelago (Norway) and Franz Josef Land (Russia). The administrative part of the Primorsky district of the Arkhangelsk region of Russia. The length of about 5 km, width 2.5 km [1]. In September 1932, after a 6-year-old territorial dispute with Norway, the island was recognized as territory of the Soviet Union and incorporated into the RSFSR. Permanent population as has for 2016, though in the years 1959-1992. on the island polar station operated at a constant rotation of personnel of scientists and the military (now closed down).