Lowosero

coat of arms
Federal district	Northwest Russia
Oblast	Murmansk
Rajon	Lowosero
First mention	1574
population	2871 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center	210 m
Time zone	UTC + 3
Telephone code	(+7) 81 538
Post Code	184590
License Plate	51
OKATO	47 210 000 001
Geographical location
Coordinates	68 ° 0 ' N , 35 ° 1' E Coordinates: 68 ° 0 '30 " N , 35 ° 1' 0" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Murmansk Oblast

Lovozero ( Russian Ловозеро ; Finnish Luujärvi ; kildinsamisch Луяввьр , Lujawwr ) is a village in the Murmansk Oblast in northwestern Russia with 2,871 inhabitants (14 October 2010).

geography

The distance to the regional capital Murmansk is 164 kilometers in a north-westerly direction. The village is the administrative center and, after the urban-type settlement of Rewda, the second largest of the five localities of the Lowozero district.

history

The settlement of the place on the river Wirma not far from the lake Lowozero goes back to the year 1574.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	824
1959	2330
1970	3463
1979	3397
1989	3638
2002	3141
2010	2871

Note: census data

people

The Sami author and language activist Alexandra Antonova lived in Lowozero. Likewise Askold Baschanow , in whose honor a street was named in 2012.

Culture

The cultural center of national minorities in Lowosero ( Natsionalny kulturny tsentr )

A large part of the approximately 1500 Sami of the Russian Federation live in Lowosero today . Some of them keep the Kildinsamische language as a colloquial language. Sami cultural events take place regularly in Lowosero. The guests also included the Sami singer Mari Boine .

Economy and Infrastructure

The largest farm in the settlement is the collective reindeer herding "Tundra". Fishing, hunting and collecting wild fruits are also important. Two kilometers to the southeast is an army helicopter base.

The nearest train station is in Olenegorsk , 70 kilometers away , where a road leads.

A monitoring station of the SDCM system is located on site .

Personalities

Anna Belaja (* 1987), Russian cross-country skier; born in Lowosero

Web links

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

http://www.ruslapland.ru/lovozero.htm (Russian)

Individual evidence

↑ ^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)
↑ “Одну из улиц села Ловозере назовут в честь саамского писателя Аскольда Бажанова” (A street in Lovosero was named on March 12th, 2020, Askold in Russian, in honor of the writer Askold, in Russian, Askold was called in Bashovan, in 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] “Одну из улиц села Ловозере назовут в честь саамского писателя Аскольда Бажанова” (A street in Lovosero was named on March 12th, 2020, Askold in Russian, in honor of the writer Askold, in Russian, Askold was called in Bashovan, in Russian


Cities	Apatity ^S \| Gadschijewo ^G \| Kandalaksha ^R \| Kirovsk ^S \| Kola ^R \| Kowdor ^S \| Montchegorsk ^S \| Murmansk ^S \| Olenegorsk ^S \| Ostrownoi ^{S / G} \| Polyarny ^G \| Polyarnye Sori ^S \| Saozjorsk ^{S / G} \| Sapolyarny \| Severomorsk ^{S / G} \| Snezhnogorsk ^{S / G}
Urban-type settlements	Kildinstroi \| Molochny \| Murmaschi \| Nikel ^R \| Pechenga \| Rewda \| Safonowo ^G \| Zelenoborsky \| Tumanny \| Umba ^R \| Werkovulomsky \| Vysoki
Further administrative offices	Lowosero ^R \| Widjajewo ^{S / G}