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Today the Kola Peninsula is the most industrially developed and urbanized region in northern Russia. [22] The major port of the peninsula is Murmansk, which serves as the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast [53] and does not freeze in winter. [3]
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 ...
Vaidagubsky lighthouse in Murmansk Oblast. Geographically, Murmansk Oblast is located mainly on the Kola Peninsula almost completely north of the Arctic Circle [16] and is a part of the larger Sápmi (Lapland) region that spans over four countries. [17]
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 ...
The Khibiny Massif are the highest mountains of the Kola Peninsula, a large peninsula extending from northern Russia into the Barents and White seas. The total land area of the peninsula is approximately 100,000 square kilometres (39,000 sq mi). It is rich in minerals due to the removal of a layer of soil during the last ice age. [2]
Sveconorwegian Domain inc. the Western Gneiss Region Caledonian nappes 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 .
Kolsky District (Russian: Ко́льский райо́н) is an administrative district (), one of the six in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. [1] As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Kolsky Municipal District. [8]
The Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 (Russian: Кольская сверхглубокая скважина СГ-3, romanized: Kol'skaya sverkhglubokaya skvazhina SG-3) is the deepest human-made hole on Earth (since 1979), which attained maximum true vertical depth of 12,262 metres (40,230 ft; 7.619 mi) in 1989. [1]