Hunting for Aurora Borealis

Aurora Borealis – magic lights in the dark sky! Unique natural phenomenon attracts tourists from around the world to the Kola Peninsula. Every year, when the polar night starts – we announce hunt for him! In pursuit of the Northern lights you will receive an excellent opportunity to become acquainted with the night Murmansk, will be […]

Free tour

Favorite cities Murmansk – 100 years! In honor of this significant date in 2016 tourist company V-leto.ru conducts free monthly tours to Murmansk. So it’s time for a second tour, it will be held on July 17! Murmansk – a city-hero! Over a relatively short period of time from the small port town it has […]

Climate of Murmansk

The city is located in the Atlantic-Arctic zone of temperate climate. The climate of Murmansk is formed by proximity of the Barents Sea, which enhances the influence of the warm North Atlantic Current. This factor contributes to the strong difference in Murmansk climate from other towns located above the Arctic Circle.   Средняя температура января — […]

Seydozero

Came the dark cold of the polar winter. It’s time to analyze summer photos. Today I want to share my impressions about the August trip on the sacred seydozero. Full travelogue can be read in the latest issue of the magazine “Tietta”, published by the Geological Institute of the Kola Scientific centre of RAS. http://geoksc.apatity.ru/images/stories/Print/zh33.pdf […]

The formation of the Aurora Borealis

An aurora, sometimes referred to as a polar light, is a natural light display in the sky, predominantly seen in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions. Auroras are produced when the magnetosphere is sufficiently disturbed by the solar wind that the trajectories of charged particles in both solar wind and magnetospheric plasma, mainly in […]

Monchegorsk in winter

Monchegorsk (Russian: Мончего́рск) is a town in Murmansk Oblast (region), Russia, located on the Kola Peninsula, 145 kilometers (90 mi) south of Murmansk, the administrative center of the oblast.  It was established in the 1930s as the inhabited locality of Moncha-Guba (Монча-Губа), which served copper and nickel mining in theMonchetundra Massif. It was granted work […]