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Murmansk (; ; ; ) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, an inlet of the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, close to Russia's borders with Norway and Finland.
Despite its extremely-northern latitude of 68°58'N (just 2° north of the Arctic Circle at approximately 66°33'N), Murmansk is in many ways similar to other Russian cities of its size at far-lower latitudes, with highway and railway access to the rest of Europe, and the northernmost trolleybus system on Earth. This is in stark contrast to the isolation of other major Arctic maritime cities such as Dikson, Krasnoyarsk Krai (73°30'N) in the far-north of Siberia on the shores of the Kara Sea or Iqaluit, Nunavut in Canada on Baffin Island's Frobisher Bay off the Labrador Sea (actually further south at 63°44'N). While still having long, harsh winters, Murmansk enjoys somewhat warmer temperatures, relatively speaking, than other regions at similarly high latitudes due to the moderating effects of the Gulf Stream on the Barents Sea.
Although Murmansk's population is in decline—299,148 (2014 est.); it remains by far the largest city north of the Arctic Circle and is a major port on the Arctic Ocean.
Murmansk is a city in Russia.
Murmansk may also refer to:
- Murmansk Oblast (est. 1938), a federal subject of Russia
- Murmansk Okrug (1927–1938), an administrative division of Leningrad Oblast in the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- Murmansk Governorate (1921–1927), an administrative division of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- Murmansk Governorate (1920), an administrative division established by the White Government in Russia in 1920
- Murmansk Krai, an informal name used in the Russian SFSR to refer to the territory of modern Murmansk Oblast
- 2979 Murmansk, a main-belt asteroid
- Soviet cruiser Murmansk, name of two cruisers
Usage examples of "murmansk".
The airframe is intact and less than forty miles from the Russian border, and the pilot is by now probably in Murmansk, if not on his way to Moscow!
World War Two, the Allies ran convoys to both Murmansk and Arkhangelsk for several years.
Then there's the possibility that whoever it is may be in cahoots with someone from the Argos or one of the nine invalids we picked up in Murmansk.
There was no way we could reasonably associate them with the misfortune of the San Andreas, for at the time the first hole was blown in the ballast they were still in hospital in Murmansk, where one or both had been suborned.
Both had compelling reasons to find an excuse to divert the San Andreas to Murmansk, the Russians to load the gold, the Germans to load Simons and that charge in the ballast room.
Then he resumes encrypting his instructions to Chattan: ONLY BRUTE FORCE APPROACH WILL BE SAFE PUT CODE BOOK ON SHIP INSERT SHIP IN MURMANSK CONVOY WAIT FOR FOG RAM NORWAY.
Dolohov's Red Banner Fleet units were putting to sea from ice-free Murmansk - troop-carriers and their submarine and destroyer escorts.
In those waters, very close to their largest naval base at Murmansk, they have underwater listening stations in a very wide array.
OZ has been tapping into real-time satellite data, and it looks like they're on the move out of Murmansk.
Seven of the seventeen invalids we picked up in Murmansk - the three who were supposed to be tubercular cases, the three who are supposed to be suffering from nervous breakdowns, and one of the exposure cases.
He had become to the seamen on the Murmansk run very much what the albatross had been the previous century to sailing men, far south in the Roaring Forties: a bird of ill-omen, half feared but almost amicably accepted, and immune from destruction, though with Charlie, for a different reason.
I would have to do better than this but by Jesus Christ I was sitting here in a stinking farm truck with our run to the coast blocked off by snow and the objective for the mission sitting beside me and telling me he'd been working for both major intelligence networks, East and West, for a long time, eight days into Northlight and already five on the deathroll and a live bomb under my legs and someone out there putting the windscreen into the crosshairs or signalling ahead of us to get a trap set or coming up from behind us like the man who was out of petrol and there was nothing I could do about it until I could get this bastard to the frontier and take him to London and leave him there to spill his guts all over Croder's debriefing desk and then I was going to ask questions, an awful lot of questions about the man running our Murmansk cell and why the hell he'd let his sleeper go on working for London and Peking without checking on his product and his couriers and his contacts and his .