The geographical center of the Murmansk region in the village of Lovozero

Few people know that the center of the Murmansk region is located in the village of Lovozero, which is also the cultural center of the Kola Sami. 

The center of the region is marked with the sign of the Russian Geographical Society, it was established on August 18, 2019. The sign is located on a stone that symbolizes the Seid (a sacred object of the Sami-the indigenous people of the Kola Peninsula), it is decorated with an image painted by the Murmansk artist, Ekaterina Goncharova. The stone depicts a stylized sun with a traditional Sami pattern. The sign also features elements of the Kanozero petroglyphs, rock carvings discovered by Yuri Ivanov on July 5, 1997, on the islands of Lake Kanozero in the southwestern part of the Kola Peninsula in the Murmansk Region of Russia.

The drawings were attributed to the III-II millennia BC. The "heart" of the Arctic can be found at the intersection of Pionerskaya and Ruchieva streets in the village of Lovozero. The geographical center of the Murmansk Region was determined in 2016. Roman Ivanov, a student of school No. 5 in Kirovsk, together with geography teacher Lyudmila Enikeeva, established the exact geographical center of the Kola Peninsula and sent the results of the study to Russian Geographical Society.