Olenegorsk, Murmansk Oblast
Olenegorsk (Russian Оленегорск ) is a town in Murmansk Oblast (Russia) with 23 072 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
Olenegorsk located on the Kola Peninsula beyond the Arctic Circle, about 110 km south of Murmansk Oblasthauptstadt. In the area of the city, the watershed between the Barents Sea runs (lakes Kachosero and Kolosero northwest of the city; outflow forms the Kola ) and the White Sea ( lake Permussosero east and the north end of Imandrasees southeast of the city).
Olenegorsk the Oblast is administratively subordinated directly.
The city lies on the Murmansk railway opened in 1917, a now to October Railway RZD belonging railway from St. Petersburg to Murmansk ( Olenja station, kilometer 1335). Here branches off a 30 -kilometer branch line to Monchegorsk. By Olenegorsk the highway M18 Saint Petersburg- Severomorsk runs.
A few kilometers east of the city and Permussosero is the air force base Olenja with associated settlement Wyssoki. From there, launched on 30 October 1961 bomber Tupolev Tu- 95 towards Novaya Zemlya to drop the strongest with over 50 megatons per -ignited hydrogen bomb over the local test site, called the Tsar - bomb.
History
The village was founded in 1916 as a settlement around the Olenja here built on the Murmansk railway station. The name is (literally russian Severny ols, North Hirsch) derived from the Russian word oils for deer, especially also Ren.
In connection with the start of production of iron ore from a deposit discovered in 1932 in 1949 the establishment of the city proper began. On March 27, 1957, the city charter was granted under the present name.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Economy
In addition to the townscape promotion ( open pit ) and enrichment of iron ore is available in the city of new mechanical engineering and metalworking industry, building materials industry and the food industry.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Dmitri Wlassenkow (born 1978 ), ice hockey player
- Nikita Wyglasow ( born 1985 ), ice hockey player