After completion of the polar day in Murmansk started the second series of the white nights (the first was in May to the beginning of the polar day). It will be open from 23 July to 11 August. The sun will not fall lower than 6 degrees below the horizon, and the duration of […]
24 years ago it was founded Reserve Pasvik “Pasvik” State Nature Reserve was established July 16, 1992. Creating a nature reserve in the unfavorable ecological situation on the Pechenga area of the Murmansk region was the result of cooperation between the two countries in the area of unique beauty and importance of northern nature. Reserve […]
#visitmurmansk #murmansk #steamlocomotive #locomotive #murmansk_region Restored after the anniversary of the city of Murmansk and the railway locomotive monument. The steam locomotive L-4386 was built in 1951 on Voroshilovgrad plant designed by the famous engineer of lokomotiv building Lev Lebedyansky and shuttled between the stations ” Louhi – Kandalaksha ” in the post-war years , ” Kandalaksha […]
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 […]
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 (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 […]
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