Sapolyarny

Federal district	Northwest Russia
Oblast	Murmansk
Rajon	Pechenga
Founded	1956
City since	1963
surface	4620 km²
population	15,825 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	3.4 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	150 m
Time zone	UTC + 3
Telephone code	(+7) 81554
Post Code	184430, 184433
License Plate	51
OKATO	47 215 503
Website	mun.gov-murman.ru
Geographical location
Coordinates	69 ° 25 ′ N , 30 ° 48 ′ E Coordinates: 69 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ N , 30 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Murmansk Oblast
	List of cities in Russia

Sapoljarny (also Sapoljarnyj , Russian Заполя́рный ) is a city with 15,825 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) on the Kola Peninsula in the Russian Oblast of Murmansk . It is located 158 km northwest of the regional capital Murmansk, not far from the Russian border with Norway .

history

Sapolyarny

The area of the present-day city belonged to Finland from 1922 to 1940 . In 1956, Sapoljarny was founded under the name of Zhdanovsk ( Жда́новск ) - in honor of the politician Andrei Zhdanov . The occasion was the development of copper and nickel deposits in the area. In 1963 the place got its current name, which means something like "City behind the Arctic Circle", as well as the town charter .

Sapoljarny is best known for the Kola well , which was carried out about 10 km away from 1970–1994 and was the world's deepest borehole in the earth's crust from 1979 to 2008.

After the territorial reform in the 2000s, Sapoljarny, including the incorporated territories, has a total area of around 4620 km², making it the largest city in Russia.

Population development

year	Residents	comment
1959	6,189	2,398 of which: Gorny urban-type settlement incorporated in 1967
1970	22,084
1979	21,172
1989	23,564
2002	18,640
2010	15,825

Note: census data

economy

1940 was Kombinat Petschenganikel ( Печенганикель ) for the promotion of copper and nickel. Today it is part of the Russian mining company MMC Norilsk Nickel .

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)
↑ Internet newspaper utro.ru , January 25, 2007

Web links

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

Entry about Sapoljarny at mojgorod.ru (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] Internet newspaper utro.ru , January 25, 2007


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}