What to see in Murmansk in 1 day

The route starts in the very center of the city, at the office of the TIC of the Murmansk region.

By visiting our office, you will learn:

• about the sights of the Murmansk region
• about how to get to them more comfortably
• about the events that will take place during your trip
• where to stay, where to eat and where to rent a car

By filling out a tourist questionnaire, you will be able to send a commemorative postcard to any corner of Russia for free.

And if you visit our office with your reusable mug— we will fill it with warming northern tea!

The office is located in the building of the business center "Arctic", in the tallest building in the Arctic and in one of the recognizable symbols of the city.

Address: business center "Arctic", 1st floor, Lenin Ave., 82

After leaving the business center "Arctic", you will find yourself on the Five Corners Square.

Five Corners is the central square of Murmansk, which is located inside the intersection of Vorovsky Street, Lenin Avenue and Leningradskaya Street.

The square got its name because of the five roads that led to it (currently only four have been preserved).

The fifth corner disappeared after the Great Patriotic War due to the liquidation of a section of Samoilova Street, which overlooked the square from the side of the House of Inter-voyage recreation of Sailors (currently the Meridian Congress Hotel)

Cultural heritage objects of regional significance are adjacent to the Five Corners Square:

• the square on the square of Five Corners
• the square at the monument to S.M. Kirov and the monument itself
• square on Leningradskaya Street 

In the square on the Five Corners, you can see:

• Fountain 
• Monument to cod
• A fragment of a cobblestone pavement
  
• Art object - a bench in the form of a plague
• A capsule with a message to posterity in 2066

The first monument in Murmansk is located in the square on Leningradskaya Street —Monument to the victims of the intervention.

Nearby are the gates to Murmansk - the railway station and Murmansk Sea Station.

Behind the building of the railway station there is a monument to the locomotive L-4386.

The monument to the Soviet vehicle was erected for the 100th anniversary of the city, which at the beginning of the century was called Romanov-na-Murman. This is a real vehicle weighing 92 tons, which was built in 1951.

The locomotive ran on the railway connecting Murmansk with St. Petersburg, most often on the section between Kandalaksha and Petrozavodsk.

Murmansk Seaport is located in the business and historical part of the city center. There is a railway station in the immediate vicinity of it.

From the railway station to the seashore, you can pass through an extended viaduct over the tracks - not only passenger, but also cargo at the port station. 

The seaport station has 2 berths, including a pontoon, and a small but beautiful embankment. The port square commemorates the port workers who died during the Second World War and the Second World War.

There are monuments here:

•  Dream Sails
• Murmansk - port city
• Monument to Lyakhnitsky V.E.

In the building of the sea station there is a mini-cafe where you can try sea urchin and scallop.

On the other side of the station, closer to the port, there is the museum of the Murmansk Commercial Port.

Address: Port passage, house 25

The nuclear icebreaker Lenin is the world's first civilian vessel with a nuclear power plant. It was designed and built to serve the Northern Sea Route and expedition navigation in the Arctic.

Today the nuclear icebreaker "Lenin" is a museum and the only object of cultural heritage of federal significance in the city of Murmansk.

The furniture, the interior of the icebreaker and the mechanisms have been preserved in their original form. The vessel is equipped with wide aisles, a sauna, a relaxation room, a darkroom, a cinema projector and a library.

The Atomic Energy Information Center and the permanent exhibition "Atom and the Arctic", an interactive museum and educational complex of the history of the nuclear icebreaker fleet, the development of the Northern Sea Route, industrial development, climatic features and ecology of the Arctic, also operate on board the nuclear icebreaker Lenin.  

Working days: Wednesday - Sunday and all public holidays except December 31, January 01 and 07.

Sightseeing tours begin at 12.00, 13.30 and 15.00. Visits to these sessions are on a first-come, first-served basis, without an appointment and an additional fee for the tour service.

The entrance fee is 600 ₽

The cost of discounted tickets for citizens of the Russian Federation:

• adult — 400 ₽
• pension — 200 ₽
• student - 200 ₽
• children (up to 17 years old inclusive) - 100 ₽

Amateur photo/video shooting is free.

2.5 km from the sea station, in the north direction from the city center, there is a lighthouse — memorial complex "To Sailors who died in peacetime".

One of the most beautiful places in the city, where a beautiful view of the Kola Bay opens. It is located on the descent between Chelyuskintsev Street and Heroes-Severomortsev Avenue.

You can get there by public transport (trolleybus No. 4, bus No. 5) or taxi.

You can get there on foot by climbing Chelyuskintsev Street.

In 2009, on June 15, the deckhouse of the Kursk nuclear submarine was installed next to the lighthouse, which became a monument to submariners who died in peacetime. The names of 33 submarines on which sailors died in peacetime are recorded next to the wheelhouse. There is a trace of a palm carved on the wall, touching it as if you are shaking hands with a person who has remained in the sea forever.

Address: Verkhne-Rostinskoe highway, 1A

Walking from the lighthouse towards the lake, you will find yourself in a green recreation area.

There is an amusement park here, where you can ride the highest Ferris wheel above the Arctic Circle.

In summer, you can ride on rented boats or catamarans on the water surface of the lake, in winter the reservoir turns into a natural skating rink. Also, in the warm season, a light and music fountain beats directly from the center of the lake.

There are several major attractions near Semenovsky Lake:

• Monument to the "Chimney"
• The world's largest glucophone "Sun-drum"
  
• Memorial "To the Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War" - "Alyosha"

The most popular resident of Semenovsky Lake on a permanent residence permit is the cat Semyon.

Between Semenovsky Lake and Nizhne-Rostinsky highway there is a monument to "Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War". 

This is the second largest monument in our country after "Motherland calls!". The height of "Alyosha" together with the pedestal is 42.5 meters, without the pedestal - 35.5 meters.

The sculpture represents a soldier in a raincoat tent with a machine gun behind his back. A lone soldier looks to the west, inThe Valley of Glory, where bloody battles took place during the Great Patriotic War. 

From the first days of its opening, Murmansk residents lovingly call it "Murmansk Alyosha", because the main figure of the monument is the figure of a warrior, a soldier.

The memorial, along with the figure of a warrior, includes the podium "Eternal Flame", a three-sided pyramid symbolizing the lowered battle flag. There were two anti-aircraft guns nearby — on this hill there were anti-aircraft batteries covering the city and the port from the air, and a stele with the inscription: "To the Defenders of the Arctic — soldiers of the 14th Army, 19th Army, Red Banner Northern Fleet, 7th Air Army, border detachments No. 82, 100, partisan detachments "Soviet Murmansk", "Bolshevik of the Arctic", "Polar Explorer", "Stalinist", "Bolshevik". Glory to those who defended this land!".

Address: Green Cape Hill