Rural Polkovnichy Island is across a long bridge over the Irtysh. On the left, 600m past the end of the bridge, is the sombre and impressive Stronger than Death memorial , erected in 2001 for victims of the nuclear tests. Above the marble centrepiece of a mother covering her child billows a Polygon mushroom cloud etched into a 30m-high black tombstone. Due to open nearby by 2014 is a new Peace Museum , in a 24m-diameter glass sphere resting on a pair of giant stone hands.
