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Zapadnaya Litsa Naval Base is located within the Litsa Fjord at the westernmost point of the Kola Peninsula in Russia's far north, about 120 kilometers from Murmansk and 45 kilometers from the Norwegian border, and includes four naval facilities: Malaya Lopatka, Andreyeva Bay, Bolshaya Lopatka, and Nerpichya.
Russian submarines have visited the North Pole region more than 300 times since then. Two nuclear submarines of the Northern Fleet made a journey under the Arctic ice cap and reached the Pacific Fleet for the first time in history in September 1963. [5] More than 25 Soviet submarines did the same in the following years.
Map of the Northern Fleet bases. A Russian naval, formerly Soviet, base is located on the shores of the bay. [1] During the Soviet era, the base, which is located at at 69-13N and 33-23E and is 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) northwest of the Russian Shipyard Number 10 at Polyarny, was known as the "Olenya Guba Submarine Base, Olenya Bay, USSR". [1]
Pages in category "Russian and Soviet Navy submarine bases" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Polyarny, Murmansk Oblast; S.
Basis Nord ("Base North") was a secret naval base of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in Zapadnaya Litsa, west of Murmansk provided by the Soviet Union.The base was part of a partnership that developed between Germany and the Soviet Union following German-Soviet Non-Aggression treaty of 1939, along with a broad economic agreement of 1940.
But, Andersen said, Russia’s nuclear-powered submarine fleet, much of it based at its Murmansk military base near Norway, remains a formidable threat.
List of military airbases in Russia; Olenya Bay which is located at 69-13N and 33-23E and is 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) northwest of the Russian Shipyard Number 10 at Polyarny and was known as the "Olenya Guba Submarine Base, Olenya Bay, USSR" during the Soviet era [17]
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