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Murmansk Oblast is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the northwestern part of the country, with a total land area of 144,900 square kilometres (55,900 sq mi). Its only internal border is the Republic of Karelia to the south, as well is bordered internationally by Finland to the west and Norway to the northwest and the Barents ...
May 15, 2023 · From January 2022 to March 1, 2023, population in the Murmansk Oblast is down by 7,000 and now counts 658,200 people. Nationwide trend. In late 1990, the last year of the Soviet period, the region ...
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Apr 5, 2024 · Murmansk, Russia. Murmansk, oblast (region), northwestern Russia, occupying the Kola Peninsula between the White and Barents seas. Its upland blocks and mountain massifs, rising to 3,907 feet (1,191 metres) in the Khibiny Mountains, are covered by tundra in the north and swampy forest, or taiga, in the south. The economy is dominated by mineral ...
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Apr 9, 2024 · Murmansk, Russia. Murmansk, seaport and center of Murmansk oblast (region), northwestern Russia, lying 125 miles (200 km) north of the Arctic Circle, and on the eastern shore of Kola Bay, 30 miles (48 km) from the ice-free Barents Sea. The town, founded in 1915 as a supply port in World War I, was a base for the British, French, and American ...
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Apr 5, 2022 · By January 1, 2022, Murmansk Oblast had 724,200 inhabitants, down 1,2% since the start of 2021. Since 2019, the population is down 3,6%. Even more dramatic are the figures when compared with 1991, the last year of the Soviet Union, when the region counted 1,2 million and the world’s largest city above the Arctic Circle, Murmansk, had about ...
Children in Murmansk. The population of the city, according to the 2010 Census, ... 1998 On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Murmansk Oblast, ...
Aug 24, 2020 · Murmansk region, though, is still Russia’s most densely populated Arctic region. 2,500 less people in a half-year period indicates the linear trend seen over the last ten years. As of the 2010 Census, Murmansk Oblast population was 795,409. In Soviet times, more than one million people lived on the Kola Peninsula.
