Umba (Russia)

Urban-type settlement Umba Умба coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Murmansk Rajon Terski head Anatoly Kmelentsov First mention 1466 Earlier names Lesnoi Urban-type settlement since 1930 population 5532 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 10  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81559 Post Code 184701-184703 License Plate 51 OKATO 47 220 551 Website gorposumba.ru Geographical location Coordinates 66 ° 41 ′  N , 34 ° 21 ′  E Coordinates: 66 ° 40 ′ 45 "  N , 34 ° 20 ′ 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Murmansk Oblast

Umba ( Russian У́мба ) is an urban-type settlement in the Murmansk Oblast in Russia with 5532 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 250 km as the crow flies south of the Murmansk Oblast Administrative Center on the south coast of the Kola Peninsula , a little north of the Arctic Circle . It is located east of the mouth of the Umba River, which gives it its name, into the Kandalaksha Bay of the White Sea .

Umba is the administrative center of the Rajons Tersky and seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Umba. In addition to the settlement, this includes the village of Olenitsa (50 km south-east on the coast) and the inland villages (nasseljonny Punkt) Indel (50 km north-east) and Wostochnoje Munosero (40 km north-north-east), which were not permanent residents in the 2010 census had more.

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  Street in Umba with berries

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  Sawmill on the Umba at the beginning of the 20th century

history

The Pomor village Umba on the right bank of the river was first mentioned in a document in 1466 as one of the oldest settlements on the Kola Peninsula. As a result, it was subordinate to the Solovetsky Monastery .

In 1769, Jean-Louis Pictet observed the transit of Venus here .

In 1898 the industrialist Belyayev had a sawmill built nearby; the associated settlement was named Lesnoi (from Russian les for "forest" or "wood"). In 1927 the settlement became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajon, and in 1930 it received the status of an urban-type settlement.

In the 1960s, the settlement and village were united under the old name Umba . Unofficially, the village is referred to as Staraya Umba ("Old Umba"), the settlement about two kilometers to the east as Nowaja Umba ("New Umba").

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Umba with the mouth of the river of the same name , in the foreground "Alt-Umba", in the background the settlement "Neu-Umba" and the White Sea

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5196
1959	8950
1970	7268
1979	7699
1989	8309
2002	6497
2010	5532

Note: census data

traffic

The regional road 47K-010 leads to Umba, which  branches off about 100 km northwest of Kandalaksha from the federal trunk road R21 Kola St. Petersburg - Murmansk. Further east, mainly along the coast, the road runs as 47K-011 for about 100 km to the village of Warsuga , the second largest town in the Rajons.

Kandalaksha is also the closest train station to the Murman Railway Saint Petersburg - Murmansk.

To the east of the settlement is a small airport ( ICAO code UMLA ).

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipal administration (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)