Sapadnaya Liza (fjord)
| Sapadnaya Liza Западная Лица |
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 Bolshaya Lopatka naval base |
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| Waters | Barents Sea | |
| Land mass | Mainland Europe | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ N , 32 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Tributaries | Sapadnaya Liza | |
Sapadnaja Liza ( Russian Западная Лица ) is a fjord that flows into Motowski Bay ( Russian Мотовский залив ) of the Barents Sea on the north coast of the Kola Peninsula in the inhospitable far north of Russia, which is difficult to access .
The fjord, surrounded by 80 to 100 m high rocky cliffs, winds for a length of about 7 nautical miles in a south-westerly direction into the interior of the Kola Peninsula. The river Sapadnaya Liza flows into the western end of the fjord .
use
The fjord, unused until the Second World War , is now the largest and most important port of the Russian Northern Fleet . It is located about 45 kilometers from the Norwegian border. To supply the military bases, the city of Saozjorsk was founded in 1958 in the immediate vicinity to the southeast .
The bases are in the fjord:
Since the first introduction of nuclear submarines ( K-3 Leninski Komsomol ), the port has housed a significant portion of the nuclear deterrent potential .
The fjord is long-term polluted by radioactive waste . Numerous decommissioned nuclear submarines lie here. In the Andreeva Bay , the nuclear waste dump is "Installation 928-III".
History: Base North
In the winter of 1939, as a result of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact , the establishment of a submarine base for the Kriegsmarine , the so-called Base North , was started and some ships, including a barge, were relocated there. With the occupation of Norway in April 1940, however, this project became obsolete and finally canceled in August 1940.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russia: Zapadnaya Litsa Naval Base ( Memento from November 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Michael Salewski: The Germans and the Sea: Studies on the German Naval History of the 19th and 20th Century, Part II. (Historical Communications, Supplement 45.) Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2002, ISBN 3-515-08087-2 ( Pp. 175–183: "Base North: An almost forgotten episode from World War II")