Alakurtti

Federal district	Northwest Russia
Oblast	Murmansk
Rajon	Kandalaksha
population	3424 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center	192 m
Time zone	UTC + 3
Telephone code	(+7) 81533
Post Code	184060
License Plate	51
OKATO	47 202 000 010
Geographical location
Coordinates	66 ° 57 ' N , 30 ° 18' E Coordinates: 66 ° 57 '0 " N , 30 ° 18' 0" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Murmansk Oblast

Alakurtti ( Russian Алакуртти ; Finnish Alakurtti) is a village (selo) in Russia in the Murmansk Oblast with 3424 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

Alakurtti was part of the Finnish province of Lapland until 1940 .

Population development

year	Residents
2002	6671
2010	3424

Note: census data

Infrastructure

There is a military airfield in Alakurtti .

Since January 2015 Alakurtti base of the 80th independent is mechanized infantry - brigade of the Russian Northern Fleet ; previously the base had not been used since 2009.

This is where the 99 km long Russian section of the Laurila – Kandalakscha railway , a branch line that branches off the Murman Railway at Rutschi-Karelskije station, ends today . The western extension of the line that used to connect Russia with Finland has been closed .

sons and daughters of the town

Galina Schirschina (* 1979), politician and psychologist

Individual evidence

Alakurtti today

↑ ^a ^b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) , January 19, 2015.
↑ Н. П. Лагутина, Т. Ю. Набокова, Т. П. Филатова: Атлас Железные Дороги. Omsk 2010, p. 6.

Web links

Alakurtti ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on kolaenc.gov-murman.ru (Russian)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

[2] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) , January 19, 2015.

[3] Н. П. Лагутина, Т. Ю. Набокова, Т. П. Филатова: Атлас Железные Дороги. Omsk 2010, p. 6.