Polyarnye Sori

city Polyarnye Sori Полярные Зори coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Murmansk Urban district Polyarnye Sori mayor Nikolai Goldobin Founded 1968 City since 1991 surface 940  km² population 15,096 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 16 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81532 Post Code 184230 License Plate 51 OKATO 47 419 Website www.pz-city.ru Geographical location Coordinates 67 ° 22 ′  N , 32 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 67 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  N , 32 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Murmansk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Polyarnyje Sori ( Russian Полярные Зори ) is a city in Murmansk Oblast ( Russia ) with 15,096 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

A church in Polyarnye Sori

The city is located on the Kola Peninsula beyond the Arctic Circle about 225 km south of the Oblast capital Murmansk along the right bank of the Niwa River , which flows into the White Sea , between the southern end of Lake Imandra , whose outflow it is, and Lake Pinosero .

Polyarnye Sori is administratively directly subordinate to the oblast .

The town lies on the 1917 opened Murmansk , a day for October Railway of RZD belonging railway from Saint Petersburg to Murmansk (1198 kilometer). The M18 St. Petersburg – Severomorsk trunk road bypasses Polyarnye Sori to the west.

history

Polyarnyje Sori was built in 1968 when the Kola nuclear power plant was built as an urban-type settlement . In 1991 the place received city rights. The name stands for polar dawns in Russian ( sori is the plural of sarja , dawn ).

Afrikanda, which is part of the city today and has a train station of the same name on the south-east bank of Lake Imandra, was founded in 1932.

Population development

year	Residents
1979	11,409
1989	19,428
2002	15,910
2010	15.096

Note: census data

economy

The Kola nuclear power plant operated by Rosenergoatom is located about 20 kilometers north of the city center on the west bank of Lake Imandra . There are also companies in the construction and wood industries.

Trivia

The city of Polyarnye Sori is mentioned in the Metro novels by the Russian author Dmitri Gluchowski . In it, the remote city is described as a final refuge for people in the context of a dystopian vision of the future, while survivors of a devastating nuclear war have fled underground in the Moscow Metro. The chronicler Homer tells Artyom, the protagonist of the two novels Metro 2033 and Metro 2035 , about a radio operator who is said to have had contact with survivors outside the subway tunnels years earlier. They said they had electricity in Polyarnye Zori, that they could live in the open air and grow enough food to feed the population. Artyom, drawn by his traumatic experiences in the fight against people and monstrosities of the irradiated surface, then sets out to find the said radio operator and to establish contact with Polyarnyje Sori again. The following events are described in the novel Metro 2035 .

Web links

Commons : Polyarnye Sori  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Polyarnyje Sori 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)