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Map of the Kola Peninsula and adjacent seas. From the Dutch Novus Atlas (1635). Cartographer: Willem Janszoon Blaeu The Kola Peninsula (Russian: Ко́льский полуо́стров, romanized: Kólʹskij poluóstrov, Kolsky poluostrov; Kildin Sami: Куэлнэгк нёа̄ррк) is a peninsula located mostly in northwest Russia and partly in Finland and Norway.
Kola (Russian: Ко́ла; Northern Sami: Guoládat; Skolt Sami: Kuâlõk) is a town and the administrative center of Kolsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kola and Tuloma Rivers, 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) south of Murmansk and 24 kilometers (15 mi) southwest of Severomorsk. It is the oldest town of the Kola ...
The Kola Province (also known as Kola Block and Kola Domain) is an area of the Fennoscandian Shield spanning an area near the borders of Russia, Finland, and Norway, including the bulk of its namesake Kola Peninsula.
This hard-to-find rusty cap in the ruins of a building in Russia's Kola Peninsula. As the race in space was winding down, soviet scientists turned inwards. You'd never guess that this is the site ...
The Kola Peninsula tundra ecoregion (WWF ID: PA1106) is an ecoregion that covers the northeastern half of the Kola Peninsula, along the coast of the White Sea, a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. The maritime effects of the White Sea create a milder climate than would be expected for a region of this latitude.
Descendants of Kola Norwegians are eligible for Norwegian citizenship after one year of living in Norway with a residence permit. [4] By 2004, approximately 2141 Kola Norwegians had settled in Norway. [5] In 2007, the small village of Port-Vladimir , the last stronghold of the Kola Norwegians lost its official recognition due to depopulation. [6]
However, in the later Treaty of Täysinä in 1595, Sweden acknowledged Russian rights in Kola. [1] Claims from Denmark–Norway remained, and therefore in 1582, a Russian voivode was appointed to Kola to provide for better defenses of the peninsula. [2] The voivode governed the territory which became known as Kolsky Uyezd. [2]
The history of Scandinavia is the history of the geographical region of Scandinavia and its peoples. ... Sweden, Finland, and the Russian Kola Peninsula.