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4 unusual facts about Murmansk


Anastasia Razvalyaeva

Anastasia Razvalyaeva (Hungarian: Razvaljajeva Anasztázia, Russian: Анастасия Разваляева, Murmansk, 1986) Russian-Hungarian harpist.

Belgian Expeditionary Corps in Russia

As the route north to Murmansk was blocked, the soldiers destroyed their armoured cars to prevent their capture by Bolshevik forces.

Hugh Willoughby

They turned back and as the storms worsened decided to winter in a bay on the coast at a place now known to be on the Kola Peninsula in the general area to the east of Murmansk.

Sir Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp, 7th Baronet

He was a chaplain to the forces in the First World War, service in Egypt and Greece, and as a senior chaplain in Murmansk in northern Russia.


Action in the North Atlantic

Then it is back to sea on a new Liberty ship, the SS Seawitch, on a convoy carrying vital war supplies to the Soviet port of Murmansk.

Aleksandr Chistyakov

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Chistyakov (b. 1991), Russian footballer with FC Sever Murmansk

Alexey Zakharov

Aleksei Sergeyevich Zakharov (born 1984), Russian association football player with FC Sever Murmansk

Aleksei Sergeyevich Zakharov (b. 1984), Russian association football player with FC Sever Murmansk

Convoy JW 55B

At the same time the Cruiser Force, from Murmansk, and the Distant Cover Force, waiting at Akureyri, in Iceland, also put to sea, taking station in the Norwegian Sea.

Diocese of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory

According to the decision of the Holy Synod of the October 6, 1995 from the Diocese highlighted Syktyvkar diocese, and December 27 – Diocese of Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and then was called and Kholmogory.

Dmitri Proshin

Dmitri Aleksandrovich Proshin (b. 1984), Russian footballer with FC Sever Murmansk

Expedition Trophy

The race follows the route Murmansk - St. Petersburg - Moscow - Yekaterinburg - Novosibirsk - Krasnoyarsk - Irkutsk - Khabarovsk - Vladivostok, with teams being eliminated at the end of each stage, and the total journey taking 13 days.

Hasvik

In the sea off the village of Sørvær lies the stranded Soviet cruiser Murmansk, which ran aground on Christmas Eve in 1994 after her towlines snapped off North Cape.

HMS M25

M25 next saw service, along with five other monitors (M23, M27, M31, M33 and HMS Humber), which were sent to Murmansk in May 1919 to relieve the North Russian Expeditionary Force.

HMS M27

M27 next saw service, along with five other monitors (M23, M25, M31, M33 and HMS Humber), which were sent to Murmansk in May 1919 to relieve the North Russian Expeditionary Force.

HMS M33

M33 next saw service, along with five other monitors (M23, M25, M27, M31 and HMS Humber), which were sent to Murmansk in 1919 to relieve the North Russian Expeditionary Force.

Hofn Air Station

From bases located at Archangel and Murmansk, Soviet aircraft would stream down to the North Cape in Norway towards the Gap which was use as a doorway to the vast Atlantic.

Joseph Smagorinsky

In 1916, with the business established, Dina, Sam, and David emigrated by going to Murmansk (Archangel) and then southward along the Norwegian coast to Christiana (now Oslo) and boarding a boat to New York where they joined Nathan.

Kiberg

After a few weeks, they were freed and sent Murmansk, the men agreeing to enrol in the Northern Fleet or the NKVD, while the women and children were sent on to Shadrinsk to work on a state farm.

Kirkenes

During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, Kirkenes was one of the many bases for the German Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe's Jagdgeschwader 5, and apart from that, the area served as a main base for supplies to the Murmansk front (see Lapland War).

Lovozersky

Lovozersky District (est. 1927), a district of Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Lyudmila Sorokina

She worked in secondary educational institutions of Chelyabinsk, Vologda and Murmansk regions and in Moscow.

Marina Kovtun

From 1986 she worked in Murmansk District Committee of the Komsomol, and she was the Head of Kol region.

No. 330 Squadron RNoAF

Its mission was to guard the North Atlantic Ocean and protect convoys from the USA and Canada to Great Britain or Murmansk from attacks by submarines and surface ships from the German Kriegsmarine.

Norwegian Sea

The Norwegian Sea is ice-free and provides a direct route from the Atlantic to the Russian ports in the Arctic (Murmansk, Archangel, and Kandalaksha), which are directly linked to central Russia.

Oktyabrsky Administrative Okrug, Murmansk

By the Decision of Murmansk Executive Committee of December 30, 1953, Nagornovsky Settlement Soviet with the administrative center in the work settlement of Nagornovsky, which was previously transferred to jurisdiction of Murmansk from Kolsky District by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR of August 5, 1953, was subordinated to Mikoyanovsky City District.

Olenya Guba

Olenya Guba (rural locality), a rural locality under the administrative jurisdiction of the closed administrative-territorial formation of Alexandrovsk in Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Operation Arctic Fox

The ultimate goal for the Finnish forces was to cut the Murmansk supply-lines at Loukhi and Kem.

Pechengsky

Pechengsky District (est. 1945), a district of Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Polyarny

Polyarny District (1927–1960), a former district of Murmansk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

Port of Arkhangelsk

Originate from Arkhangelsk regular passenger line to Murmansk, Dixon, Onega, Mezen, Kandalaksha and Novaya Zemlya.

Project HOMERUN

On a typical RB-47H reconnaissance mission covering 5,984 mi (9,360 km), the aircraft would fly from Thule, Greenland to the Kara Sea to Murmansk and then return only to find Thule weathered-in, forcing the flight from the air-refueling/decision point near the northeast shore of Greenland to one of three equidistant alternates: Goose Bay, Labrador, London, or Fairbanks, Alaska.

Sergey Subbotin

Sergey Alekseyevich Subbotin (b. 15 August 1955, Yushkovskaya village, Arkhangelsk Oblast, USSR) is the ex-mayor of the city of Murmansk.

SS Empire Baffin

Convoy PQ 16 sailed from Reykjavík on 21 May 1942 and arrived at Murmansk on 30 May.

Teribersky

Teriberskaya Volost (1912–1927), an administrative division of Alexandrovsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire, and later of Murmansk Governorate of the Russian SFSR

Teribersky District (1927–1963), an administrative division of Murmansk Okrug of Leningrad Oblast of the Russian SFSR, and later of Murmansk Oblast

To the Valiant Soldier of the Karelian Front

"Karelian Front" was an informal name of the Karelian Battle Region of the Petrograd Military District in the territory of Karelia and part of Murmansk guberniya, formed for the suppression of the Karelian Uprising of 1921-1922.

Umba

Umba, Russia, an urban-type settlement in Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Volkhov

Another railway line passing through Volkhov connects Chudovo in the south and Lodeynoye Pole, Petrozavodsk, and ultimately Murmansk in the north.


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