Gajievo

city Gadschijewo Gаджиево coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Murmansk Urban district Alexandrovsk (SATO) Founded 1956 Earlier names Jagelnaya Guba (until 1967) Gadschijewo (until 1981) Skalisty (until 1999) City since 1981 surface 135  km² population 11,068 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 82 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 30  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81 539 Post Code 18467x License Plate 51 OKATO 47 529 Geographical location Coordinates 69 ° 15 ′  N , 33 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 69 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 33 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Murmansk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Gadschijewo ( Russian Гаджи́ево ) is a district-free city with 11,068 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the far north of the European part of Russia in the Murmansk Oblast .

General

Gadschijewo is located on a bay of the Barents Sea , 32 km north of the regional capital Murmansk . The closest town is Snezhnogorsk , six kilometers southwest of Gadschijewo.

The Gadschijewo naval base of the Russian Northern Fleet is located in Gadschijewo . Due to its military importance, Gadschijewo is a closed city and is therefore generally not noted on maps. Together with Polyarny and Snezhnogorsk it belongs to the closed Alexandrovsk region. To the west of the city is Sajda Bay , which contains the world's largest storage facility for radioactive remains from nuclear submarines , built with German support .

history

The place was laid out in 1956 with the establishment of the naval base, it was first officially mentioned as a settlement of the Murmansk Oblast on May 15, 1957. Gadschijewo had the status of a settlement until 1967 and was called Jagelnaya Guba ( Я́гельная Губа́ ) after the bay which is the naval base . On October 16, 1967, the settlement was given its current name in honor of the naval captain Magomet Gadschijew, who died in World War II . On September 14, 1981, Gadschijewo received the status of a closed city and was renamed Skalisty ( Ска́листый , in German the rocky ), the code name Murmansk-130 was also common . In 1999 the city got the name Gadschijewo back.

Gadschievo's city coat of arms, which is intended to underline the city's importance as a submarine base, was enshrined in law on May 11, 1995.

Population development

year	Residents
2002	12,180
2010	11,068

Note: census data

Web links

Commons : Gadschijewo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Gadschijewo bei mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Gadschiyevo photo gallery (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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)
2. ↑ Achim Nuhr: The atomic legacy of the Northern Fleet . ARD-Radio-Feature from June 26, 2011, ( manuscript ( Memento from November 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), MP3 ( Memento from June 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))