Welcome to Murmansk-the Capital of the Arctic!

Murmansk is located on the shore of the ice-free Kola Bay, and is the largest city beyond the Arctic Circle.

Here you can observe unique northern phenomena: polar nights, polar days, northern lights, a special northern nature.

The date of foundation is October 4, 1916.

Murmansk is the administrative center of the Murmansk region — a city of high quality of life, a comfortable urban living environment, a Russian center for the development of the Arctic with development priorities in the fields of fisheries and transport.

The Murmansk seaport is the only ice-free deep-water harbor in the European part of Russia that has direct and convenient access to ocean highways. A strategic maritime transport artery — the Northern Sea Route-originates in Murmansk, which provides access to the resources of the Far North, Siberia and the Far East, as well as the development of transit from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

Murmansk is the center of the Russian nuclear icebreaker fleet, the home of the world's first nuclear icebreaker "Lenin", built in 1957 to serve the Northern Sea Route. Now it is open to guests and residents of the city as a museum.

It is from Murmansk that the world-famous expeditions on the nuclear icebreaker "50 Years of Victory" to the North Pole will start.

Murmansk is the center of the Barents fishing industry, which has unique biological resources.

Murmansk is not only the largest city in the world beyond the Arctic Circle, which occupies a leading position in the region's economy, but also the cultural center of the Kola Region.

Among the main attractions of Murmansk is the memorial "To the Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War", towering 173 meters above the bay. The height of the monument, called "Alyosha" by Murmansk residents, is 35 meters (the second highest in Russia after the Volgograd statue "Motherland"). At one of the favorite places of recreation of citizens — Semenovsky Lake-a memorial dedicated to the steadfastness and courage of Murmansk residents during the Great Patriotic Warhas been opened . In its center is the "chimney" of a house that burned down due to the bombing.

Every year, the city hosts such events as the Gulfstream Festival, which has already become a traditional one, which is the r

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