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The Kola Peninsula (Russian: ... The city of Murmansk, the most populous settlement on the peninsula, has a population of roughly 270,000 residents. [1]
It is the oldest town of the Kola Peninsula. Population: 10,437 (2010 Census); [2] ... which may have been the first stone building constructed in the Kola Peninsula.
Zapolyarny (Russian: Заполя́рный; Norwegian: Zapoljarnyj) is a town in Pechengsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Kola Peninsula, 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) northeast of the Kola Superdeep Borehole project. Population: 15,825 (2010 Census); [2] 18,640 (2002 Census); [5] 23,564 (1989 Soviet census). [6]
It is located in the northwest of the oblast, partially lies on the Kola Peninsula, and borders with the Barents Sea in the north and Finland in the west. [3] The area of the district is 27,600 square kilometers (10,700 sq mi). [3] Its administrative center is the town of Kola. [1]
Murmansk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, which is located in the northwestern part of the country, occupying mostly the Kola Peninsula.The oblast itself was established on May 28, 1938, but some kind of administrative organization of the territory existed here since at least the 13th century.
This hard-to-find rusty cap in the ruins of a building in Russia's Kola Peninsula covers the deepest hole on earth. The scientists drilled it off and on for 24 years from 1970 to 1994. They got ...
East Sápmi consists of the Kola peninsula and the Lake Inari region and is home to the eastern Sami languages. While being the most heavily populated part of Sápmi, this is also the region where the Indigenous population and their culture are weakest. Corresponds to the regions marked 6 through 9 on the map below.
Population: 363 (2010 Census). [3] History. ... Varzuga, along with Umba, is the first documented permanent Russian settlement on the Kola Peninsula, [2] ...