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.- Email: citymurmansk@citymurmansk.ru
- Type: City with 267,000 residents
- Description: city in the northwest of Russia
- Also known as: “Gorod Murmansk”, “Muurmanni”, “Romanow na Murmaniu”, “Romanow-na-Murmane”, and “Мӯрман”
- Historically known as: “Romanov”, “Romanov-on-Murman”, and “Semenova”
- Address: городской округ Мурманск
Places of Interest
Highlights: Lenin and Murmanskiĭ oblastnoĭ kraevedcheskiĭ muzeĭ.
Lenin
Ship
Lenin is a Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker, the first nuclear-powered icebreaker in the world.
Murmanskiĭ oblastnoĭ kraevedcheskiĭ muzeĭ
Museum
Murmanskiĭ oblastnoĭ kraevedcheskiĭ muzeĭ is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Min’kino.
Murmansk
Latitude
68.9707° or 68° 58′ 14″ north
Longitude
33.075° or 33° 4′ 30″ east
Population
267,000
Elevation
75 metres (246 feet)
Established
1916
IATA airport code
MMK
UN/LOCODE
RU MMK
Open location code
9GWMX3CF+7X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Murmansk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Moermansk”
- Amharic: “ሙርማንስክ”
- Arabic: “مورمانسك”
- Armenian: “Մուրմանսկ”
- Asturian: “Múrmansk”
- Azerbaijani: “Murmansk”
- Balinese: “Murmansk”
- Banjar: “Murmansk”
- Bashkir: “Мурманск”
- Basque: “Murmansk”
- Belarusian: “Мурманск”
- Bengali: “মুরম্যান্স্ক”
- Bengali: “মোমান্সক”
- Breton: “Mourmansk”
- Bulgarian: “Мурманск”
- Catalan: “Múrmansk”
- Cebuano: “Murmansk”
- Chechen: “Мурманск”
- Chinese: “摩尔曼斯克”
- Chinese: “摩爾曼斯克”
- 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: “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”
- Javanese: “Murmansk”
- Kalaallisut: “Murmansk”
- Kannada: “ಮರ್ಮನ್ಸ್ಕ್”
- Karelian: “Murmanski”
- Kazakh: “Мурманск”
- Kildin Sami: “Мӯрман ланнҍ”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Murmansk”
- Ossetian: “Мурмæнск”
- Ossetian: “Мурманск”
- Panjabi: “ਮੁਰਮਾਂਸਕ”
- Persian: “مورمانسک”
- Polish: “Murmańsk”
- Portuguese: “Murmansk”
- Portuguese: “Murmansque”
- Pushto: “مرمنسک”
- 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”
- Somali: “Murmansk”
- South Azerbaijani: “مورمانسک”
- 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”
- “Murmansk”
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