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 […]