Snezhnogorsk, Murmansk Oblast

Sneschnogorsk (Russian Снежногорск ) is a town in Murmansk Oblast (Russia) with 12,683 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the Kola Peninsula, approximately 25 kilometers north of Murmansk Oblasthauptstadt above the Olenjabucht, a tributary of the Kolabucht the Barents Sea.

Sneschnogorsk the Oblast is administratively subordinated directly and is one of the Closed cities of Russia.

History

The village was founded in 1964 under the name Wjuschny (derived from Russian wjuga for blizzard ) in connection with the establishment of a repair yard for nuclear -powered submarines in 1970, her commenced operations. At the same time the place was the military code name Murmansk 60th

From 1973 Wjuschny was administratively the city Severomorsk assumed until it independent city was on October 4, 1980.

In 1994, the place its present name (from Russian sneg for snow).

Demographics

Note: 1979 from 2002 census data

Economy

In Sneschnogorsk the repair yard is Nerpa (Russian for, inter alia, for ringed seal, see coat of arms ) of the nuclear submarine fleet of the Russian Navy. Since 1994, ships of the fleet to be repaired.

Since 1995 there has been a factory for concrete special tubes which used Gazprom to transport pumped to the bottom of the Barents Sea natural gas.

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