Olenya Bay
Olenya Bay or Olenya Guba is a bay of the Barents Sea on the Kola Peninsula in the Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It is an extension of the Kola Inlet, which opens out to the north into the Barents Sea. The Pechenga River discharges into the bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Inlet
- Description: bay of the Barents Sea on the Kola Peninsula, Russian naval base
- Also known as: “Guba Olen’ya”, “Olen’ya Guba”, “Olenya Guba”, and “Porolahti”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Olenya Guba and Polyarny.
Olenya Guba
Village
Olenya Guba is a rural locality in administrative jurisdiction of the closed administrative-territorial formation of Alexandrovsk in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,661.
Polyarny
Town
Photo: Alexander Amelchenko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Polyarny is a town and the administrative center of the closed administrative-territorial formation of Alexandrovsk in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, situated on the outermost western side of the Kola Bay. Polyarny is situated 3½ km southeast of Olenya Bay.
Gadzhiyevo
Town
Gadzhiyevo is a town under the administrative jurisdiction of the closed administrative-territorial formation of Alexandrovsk in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Gadzhiyevo is situated 4 km northwest of Olenya Bay.
Olenya Bay
- Categories: bay, military base, and body of water
- Location: Murmansk Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Swedish—“Olenya Bay” goes by many names.
- French: “baie d’Olenia”
- French: “Baie d’Olenia”
- German: “Olenja-Bucht”
- Russian: “Губа Оленья”
- Russian: “Оленья губа”
- Russian: “Оленья”
- Spanish: “Bahía Olenya”
- Swedish: “Olenjabukten”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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