Murmansk
Murmansk is a city in the extreme northwest of Russia and the world's largest city north of the Arctic Circle. It lies in the Kola Bay on the Kola Peninsula, by the Barents Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Email: citymurmansk@citymurmansk.ru
- Type: City with 267,000 residents
- Description: city in the northwest of Russia
- Also known as: “Gorod Murmansk”, “Muurmanni”, and “Romanow-na-Murmane”
- Historically known as: “Romanov”, “Romanov-on-Murman”, and “Semenova”
- Address: городской округ Мурманск
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lenin and Murmanskiĭ oblastnoĭ kraevedcheskiĭ muzeĭ.
Lenin
Ship
Photo: Palefire, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lenin is a Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker, the first nuclear-powered icebreaker in the world. Launched in 1957, it is both the world's first nuclear-powered surface ship and the first nuclear-powered civilian vessel.
Murmanskiĭ oblastnoĭ kraevedcheskiĭ muzeĭ
Museum
Photo: Insider, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Murmanskiĭ oblastnoĭ kraevedcheskiĭ muzeĭ is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Min’kino.
Min’kino
Hamlet
Minkino is a rural locality in Kolsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located beyond the Arctic Circle at a height of 1 meter above sea level. Population: 433.
Murmansk
- Categories: big city, administrative divisions of Russia, city or town, urban okrug in Russia, port, and locality
- Location: Murmansk Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
68.9707° or 68° 58′ 14″ northLongitude
33.075° or 33° 4′ 30″ eastPopulation
267,000Elevation
75 metres (246 feet)Inception
1916IATA airport code
MMKUnited Nations Location Code
RU MMKOpen location code
9GWMX3CF+7XOpenStreetMap ID
node 269342417OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Murmansk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Moermansk”
- Arabic: “مورمانسك”
- Armenian: “Մուրմանսկ”
- Asturian: “Múrmansk”
- Azerbaijani: “Murmansk”
- Balinese: “Murmansk”
- Banjar: “Murmansk”
- Bashkir: “Мурманск”
- Basque: “Murmansk”
- Belarusian: “Мурманск”
- Bengali: “মোমান্সক”
- Breton: “Mourmansk”
- Bulgarian: “Мурманск”
- Catalan: “Múrmansk”
- Cebuano: “Murmansk”
- Chechen: “Мурманск”
- Chinese: “Murmansk”
- Chinese: “摩尔曼斯克”
- Chinese: “摩爾曼斯克”
- Chinese: “莫曼斯克”
- Chuvash: “Мурманск”
- Crimean Tatar: “Murmansk”
- Croatian: “Murmansk”
- Czech: “Murmansk”
- Danish: “Murmansk”
- Dimli (individual language): “Murmansk”
- Dutch: “Moermansk”
- Eastern Mari: “Мурманск”
- Erzya: “Мурман”
- Erzya: “Мурманск ош”
- Esperanto: “Murmansko”
- Estonian: “Murmansk”
- Finnish: “Murmansk”
- Finnish: “Muurmanni”
- Finnish: “Muurmanski”
- French: “Mourmansk”
- Galician: “Murmansk”
- Galician: “Múrmansk”
- Georgian: “მურმანსკი”
- German: “Murmansk”
- Greek: “Μούρμανσκ”
- Gujarati: “મરમેન્સ્ક”
- Hausa: “Murmansk”
- Hebrew: “מורמנסק”
- Hindi: “मूरमान्स्क”
- Hungarian: “Murmanszk”
- Icelandic: “Murmansk”
- Icelandic: “Múrmansk”
- Ido: “Murmansk”
- Inari Sami: “Murmansk”
- Indonesian: “Murmansk”
- Interlingue: “Murmansk”
- Irish: “Murmansk”
- Italian: “Murmansk”
- Japanese: “ムルマンスク”
- Kalaallisut: “Murmansk”
- Kannada: “ಮರ್ಮನ್ಸ್ಕ್”
- Karelian: “Murmanski”
- Kildin Sami: “Мӯрман ланнҍ”
- Kildin Sami: “Мӯрман”
- Kirghiz: “Мурманск”
- Korean: “무르만스크”
- Ladin: “Murmansk”
- Latin: “Romana ad Murmanum”
- Latin: “Romana”
- Latvian: “Murmanska”
- Lezghian: “Мурманск”
- Lithuanian: “Murmanskas”
- Low German: “Murmansk”
- Luxembourgish: “Murmansk”
- Macedonian: “Мурманск”
- Malay: “Murmansk”
- Maltese: “Murmansk”
- Maori: “Murmansk”
- Marathi: “मुर्मान्स्क”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Murmansk”
- Mingrelian: “მურმანსკი”
- Moksha: “Мурман”
- Mongolian: “Мурманск”
- Northern Frisian: “Murmansk (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Murmansk”
- Northern Sami: “Murmánska”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Murmansk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Murmansk”
- Norwegian: “Murmansk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mormansk”
- Ossetian: “Мурмæнск”
- Ossetian: “Мурманск”
- Persian: “مورمانسک”
- Polish: “Murmańsk”
- Polish: “Romanow na Murmaniu”
- Portuguese: “Murmansk”
- Portuguese: “Murmansque”
- Pushto: “مورمانسک”
- Romanian: “Murmansk”
- Russian: “Мурманск”
- Russian: “Романов-на-Мурмане” (historical)
- Russian: “Романов” (historical)
- Russian: “рыбная столица”
- Russian: “Семёновский” (historical)
- Russian: “столица Арктики”
- Russian: “столица Заполярья”
- Scots: “Murmansk”
- Serbian: “Мурманск”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Murmansk”
- Silesian: “Murmańsk”
- Sinhala: “මුරමන්ස්ක්”
- Sinhala: “ම්ර්මන්ස්ක්”
- Skolt Sami: “Muurman”
- Slovak: “Murmansk”
- Slovenian: “Murmansk”
- South Azerbaijani: “مورمانسک”
- Spanish: “Murmansk”
- Spanish: “Múrmansk”
- Swahili: “Murmansk”
- Swedish: “Murmansk”
- Tagalog: “Murmansk”
- Tajik: “Мурманск”
- Talysh: “Murmansk”
- Tamil: “முற்மண்சக்”
- Tatar: “Мурманск”
- Telugu: “ముర్మ్యాన్స్క్”
- Thai: “มูร์มันสค์”
- Turkish: “Murmansk”
- Twi: “Murmansk”
- Udmurt: “Мурманск”
- Ukrainian: “Мурманськ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Murmansk”
- Urdu: “مرمانسک”
- Urdu: “مورمانسک”
- Uzbek: “Murmansk”
- Veps: “Murmansk”
- Vietnamese: “Murmansk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Murmansk”
- Welsh: “Murmansk”
- Western Frisian: “Moermansk”
- Western Frisian: “Mûrmansk”
- Wolof: “Murmansk”
- Wu Chinese: “摩尔曼斯克”
- Yiddish: “מורמאנסק”
- Yiddish: “מורמאַנסק”
- Yue Chinese: “莫曼斯克”
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