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Murmansk Port is the homeport of the barque "Sedov", one of the largest sailing ships in the world. [5] The Murmansk Shipping Company also operates the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet. [6] In May 2007 it was decided to set up in Murmansk port free trade zone . On 15 October 2010 Murmansk was officially declared a special economic zone. [7]
Murmansk (Russian: Мурманск) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia.It is the world's largest city north of the Arctic Circle and sits on both slopes and banks of a modest fjord, Kola Bay, an estuarine inlet of the Barents Sea, with its bulk on the east bank of the inlet.
K-206 Murmansk was a nuclear-powered Oscar-class submarine of the Soviet Navy, and later the Russian Navy. [1] [2] [6] She was the second of the two Oscar I (the Soviet classification was Project 949 Granit) vessels constructed, the other being K-525. A further 11 submarines of an improved class, Project 949A (Antey) (called Oscar II by NATO ...
Port Brabant to 1950 [4] Port of Churchill: Manitoba: Hudson Bay ... Port of Murmansk: Murmansk Oblast: Barents Sea Severomorsk: Murmansk Oblast ...
Kola Bay (Russian: Кольский залив) or Murmansk Fjord is a 57-km-long fjord of the Barents Sea that cuts into the northern part of the Kola Peninsula. It is up to 7 km wide and has a depth of 200 to 300 metres. The Tuloma, Rosta and Kola Rivers discharge into the bay.
Murmansk Shipping Company (Russian: Мурманское морское пароходство), often abbreviated as MSCO, was a Russian shipping company based in Murmansk. It was one of the primary shipping companies operating in Arctic Russia and northern Europe, in 2014 the company had 303 vessels, with a total dead weight of about 1.2 ...
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]
Russian Shipyard No. 10—Shkval (Russian: Акционерного общества «10 ордена Трудового Красного Знамени судоремонтный завод») is located in Polyarny, Murmansk Oblast, Russia, on the outermost western side of the Murmansk Fjord. In the West, it is more often referred to by the ...