Motowski Bay
| Motovsky Bay Мотовский залив |
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 Motowski Bay |
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| Waters | Barents Sea | |
| Land mass | Mainland Europe , fishing peninsula |
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| Geographical location | 69 ° 34 ′ 34 " N , 32 ° 30 ′ 18" E | |
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| Tributaries | Titovka | |
The Motowski Bay ( Russian Мотовский залив ) is a sea bay in the north-west of Russia .
It is part of the Barents Sea and separates the fishing peninsula from the Kola peninsula . The western end of the bay is 40 km from the western border with Norway . Near the western end of the bay, the Titowka River flows into the bay from the south.
During the Second World War , Motowski Bay was at times the theater of war on the north-east front.
During the Cold War , the bay was of great importance for the Soviet Northern Fleet . A number of naval bases for nuclear submarines were built in the Sapadnaya Liza fjord . The Motowski Bay is noticeably polluted by radioactivity .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ War diary of the Wehrmacht High Command (Wehrmacht command staff)
- ^ Soviet Era: Naval Force / Morskoyo Flota on GlobalSecurity.org
- ↑ Anthropogenic radionuclides in Kola and Motovsky Bays of the Barents Sea, Russia. ( online )
- ^ Discharges of nuclear waste into the Kola Bay and its impact on human radiological doses. ( online )