Widjajewo
Closed settlement
vidyayevo
Видяево
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Widjajewo ( Russian Видяево ) is the settlement of a naval base of the Russian Northern Fleet on the Kola Peninsula on the Barents Sea in Murmansk Oblast . The place has 5771 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
The closed settlement is 80 km east of the Norwegian border and 30 km north-northwest of the city of Murmansk on the Uriza River near the western Ura Bay (Ura-Guba). The closed city of Zaozjorsk is 20 km to the west .
The city serves as a settlement for the two base ports 2 km north on Ura Bay and 6 km north on Ara Bay.
Widjajewo was founded on July 31, 1958 and initially named after the Uritsa river . On July 6, 1964, the settlement was renamed in honor of the submarine commander in World War II Fyodor Widjajew ( Фёдор Алексеевич Видяев ).
The head of the city administration is Sergei Michailowitsch Dubowoi ( Сергей Михайлович Дубовой ).
Widjajewo was the home port of the submarine K-141 Kursk , which sank in 2000 . President Vladimir Putin visited Vvyayevo relatively late after the disaster, which caused displeasure among the Russian public.
Population development
year | Residents |
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2002 | 6307 |
2010 | 5771 |
Note: census data
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
- Official website of the village Widjajewo (Russian)
- Urban district of the closed settlement Vvyayevo ( Memento of July 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
- vidyaevo.narod.ru: Website about the location ( Memento from June 12, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
- Brief historical overview of the settlement vidyayevo ( Memento of 27 September 2007 at the Internet Archive ) (Russian)