Snezhnogorsk (Murmansk)

Federal district	Northwest Russia
Oblast	Murmansk
mayor	Yuri Jurlin
Founded	1964
Earlier names	Vyuzhny, Murmansk-60
City since	1980
surface	29 km²
population	12,683 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	437 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	80 m
Time zone	UTC + 3
Telephone code	(+7) 81530
Post Code	184682, 184683
License Plate	51
OKATO	47 527
Website	www.snegadm.ru
Geographical location
Coordinates	69 ° 12 ' N , 33 ° 14' E Coordinates: 69 ° 12 '0 " N , 33 ° 14' 0" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Murmansk Oblast
	List of cities in Russia

Sneschnogorsk ( Russian Снежногорск ) is a city in Murmansk Oblast ( Russia ) with 12,683 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the Kola Peninsula about 25 kilometers north of the Oblasthauptstadt Murmansk above the Olenjabucht , a tributary of the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea .

Snezhnogorsk is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and is one of the Closed Cities of Russia.

history

The place was created from 1964 under the name Vyuzhny (derived from Russian vjuga for snowstorm ) in connection with the construction of a repair yard for nuclear submarines , which began operations in 1970. At the same time, the place had the military code name Murmansk-60 .

From 1973 Vyuzhny was administratively subordinate to the city of Severomorsk until it became an independent city on October 4, 1980.

In 1994 the place was given its current name (from Russian sneg for snow ).

Population development

year	Residents
1970	600
1979	8,617
1996	16,300
2000	14,400
2002	12,737
2010	12,683

Note: 1979, from 2002 census data

economy

In Snezhnogorsk is the Nerpa repair yard (Russian for inter alia for ringed seal , see city coat of arms) of the Russian navy's nuclear submarine fleet . Since 1994 ships in the fishing fleet have also been repaired.

Since 1995 there has been a factory for special concreted pipes, which Gazprom uses to transport natural gas extracted from the bottom of the Barents Sea .

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)

Web links

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

City administration website (Russian)
Snezhnogorsk on 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)


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}