Kandalaksha

city Kandalaksha Кандалакша flag coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Murmansk Rajon Kandalaksha First mention 11th century City since 1938 surface 6650  km² population 35,654 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 5.4 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 20  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81533 Post Code 1840xx License Plate 51 OKATO 47 202 501 Website www.kandalaksha-admin.ru Geographical location Coordinates 67 ° 10 ′  N , 32 ° 25 ′  E Coordinates: 67 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 32 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Murmansk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Kandalakscha ( Russian Кандалакша ; Finnish Kantalahti; Karelian Kannanlakši) is a port city in Russia , in the Murmansk Oblast , with 35,654 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

location

Kandalaksha is located on the Kola Peninsula , 277 km south of the regional capital Murmansk , at the northern end of Kandalaksha Bay , part of the White Sea . The nearest town is Polyarnye Sori, around 20 km away .

history

The native population of the area were Sami . Karelians and Pomors have also lived in the area for centuries .

The place Kandalaksha was already known in the 11th century. In 1526 the Russian Orthodox missionary Theodoret von Kola initiated the construction of the St. John the Baptist Church, in which the Sami from the area were baptized. In 1548 the clergyman founded a monastery on the same site , which existed until the 17th century.

Around 1590 the place was plundered and burned by the Swedes, in 1855 it was destroyed by the English during the Crimean War.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Kandalaksha was given a sea port and a railway connection. Industrialization began here: at the beginning of the 1930s, the first hydropower plant on the Kola Peninsula and a machine factory were built in Kandalaksha .

In 1938 Kandalaksha received city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	22,172
1959	38,222
1970	42,656
1979	45,430
1989	54,080
2002	40,564
2010	35,654

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

Kandalaksha train station

Wood processing and mechanical engineering are important industries in the city, and there are aluminum and fish factories. Kandalaksha is on the M18 trunk road and has a seaport and six hydropower plants. It also has a train station on the Murman Railway from Saint Petersburg to Murmansk.

Attractions

In Kandalaksha there is a memorial to the victims of the Anglo-American intervention (1918–1920). In the nearby village of Kowda stands the Nikolai Church, built in 1705. In the vicinity of the city there is a large bird protection nature reserve, the Kandalakscha Sapovednik .

Personalities

Kandalakscha is an important winter sports location and, among other things, a venue for competitions in natural track tobogganing . For this reason, several well-known natural track tobogganers come from here, including:

• Alexander Jegorow (* 1985)
• Oksana Jelessina (* 1986)
• Ivan Lazarew (* 1983)
• Ekaterina Lavrentieva (* 1981)
• Roman Molwistow (* 1981)
• Pyotr Popov (* 1985)
• Pawel Porschnew (* 1983)
• Julija Wetlowa (* 1983)

Other sons and daughters of the city are:

• Vladimir Varennikow (* 1955), general and politician, son of Valentin Varennikow

Sports

The natural track tobogganing junior European championships in 1991 and 2005 took place in Kandalakscha.

Web links

Commons : Kandalaksha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kandalaksha on mojgorod.ru (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. ↑ History of Kandalaksha , Kandalaksha information portal (in Russian)