Polyarny

Federal district	Northwest Russia
Oblast	Murmansk
Urban district	Alexandrovsk (SATO)
Founded	1896
Earlier names	Alexandrowsk (until 1931)
City since	1899
surface	56 km²
population	17,293 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	309 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	20 m
Time zone	UTC + 3
Telephone code	(+7) 81551
Post Code	184650-184653
License Plate	51
OKATO	47 525
Website	www.zatopol.ru
Geographical location
Coordinates	69 ° 12 ' N , 33 ° 27' E Coordinates: 69 ° 12 '0 " N , 33 ° 27' 0" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Murmansk Oblast
	List of cities in Russia

Polyarny ( Russian Поля́рный ; until 1931 Alexandrowsk ) is a closed city (SATO) in Murmansk Oblast , Russia . Polyarny has 17,293 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

The new settlement Alexander III (before 1900)

Submarine of the Kilo-class in the Bay of Polyarny

The place was founded in 1896 at Katharinenhafen (Russian: Jekaterinskaja gawan ), a part of the Kola Bay probably named after Catherine II . In honor of Tsar Alexander III. he received the name Alexandrowsk . In 1899 city rights were granted. In 1931 the city got its current name.

In Polyarny is the state Russian shipyard number 10 Shkwal , which u. a. was responsible for the manufacture of nuclear powered submarines . Today there are a number of no longer navigable ships and submarines (including nuclear-powered vehicles) of the Russian Northern Fleet , which were decommissioned after the end of the Cold War .

The old name Alexandrowsk has been used again since 2008 in the "closed" urban district , which, in addition to Polyarny, also includes the cities of Gadschijewo and Sneschnogorsk as well as five smaller towns.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	11,354
1970	15,321
1979	20,015
1989	27,635
2002	18,552
2010	17,293

Note: census data

Media reception

In the US feature film The Hunt for Red October from 1990, the first shot shows a new Soviet nuclear submarine driving in the snow-covered Poliarny Bay , north of a Soviet submarine base and near Murmansk , how the subtitles suggest it.

Web links

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

Polyarny on mojgorod.ru (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)

[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)


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}