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4 unusual facts about Murmansk Oblast


Luostari

Luostari (inhabited locality), an inhabited locality in Korzunovsky Territorial Okrug of Pechengsky District of Murmansk Oblast

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

Prirechny

Prirechny, Murmansk Oblast, a former urban-type settlement in Murmansk Oblast, Russia; since 2004 or 2005—a settlement of rural type

Skafferhullet

The border crossing site was located on the old road between Elvenes in Sør-Varanger Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway and Borisoglebsky in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.


Kandalaksha Coast

Administratively, the Kandalaksha Coast is shared between Kandalakshsky and Tersky Districts of Murmansk Oblast.

Kanozero Petroglyphs

The Kanozero Petroglyphs are a set of rock drawings discovered in 1997 on an island in Lake Kanozero in the southwestern part of the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.

Lyudmila Sorokina

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

Skolts

They currently live in and around the villages of Sevettijärvi, Keväjärvi, Nellim in the municipality of Inari, at several places in the Murmansk Oblast and in the village of Neiden in the municipality of Sør-Varanger.


see also

Lovozersky

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

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

Teribersky

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

Umba

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