Theme Week Russia – Murmansk on the Arctic Circle
Friday, 16 January 2015 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Russia / Russland General
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K-322 Cachalot, a Russian Northern Fleet AKULA class nuclear-powered attack submarine underway on the surface
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Murmansk is a port city and the administrative center of
Murmansk Oblast , located in the extreme
northwest part of Russia , on the
Kola Bay , an inlet of the
Barents Sea , a
marginal sea of the
Arctic Ocean , on the northern shore of the
Kola Peninsula , close to the
Russia’s borders with Norway and
Finland . Despite its extreme northern location above the
Arctic Circle , Murmansk tends to be nearly the same as any other Russian city of its size, featuring highway and railway access to the rest of Europe, a railway station, and the northernmost trolleybus system on Earth.
During the Cold War Murmansk was a centre of Soviet submarine and icebreaker activity. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , the nearby city and naval base of Severomorsk remains the headquarters of the Russian Northern Fleet . The Port of Murmansk remains ice-free year round due to the warm North Atlantic Current and is an important fishing and shipping destination. It is home port to Atomflot , the world’s only fleet of nuclear-powered icebreakers . The Port of Murmansk is the headquarters of Sevmorput (Northern Sea Route), and the administration of Russian Arctic maritime transport.
K-322 Cachalot, a Russian Northern Fleet AKULA class nuclear-powered attack submarine underway on the surface © US Navy
Murmansk is home to
Murmansk State Technical University , the Murmansk State Pedagogical University and the Murmansk Institute of Humanities. The city also has eighty-six primary schools and fifty-six secondary schools, two boarding schools, and three reform schools. Murmansk has two main (and several small) museums: Murmansk Oblast Museum and Murmansk Oblast Art Museum. There are also three professional theatres, libraries and an aquarium in Murmansk.
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