Russian Murmansk is a world record holder: it is the largest among all cities on the planet located beyond the Arctic Circle. During the Great Patriotic War, the northern seaport defended itself from the German invaders for many months, for which it received the title of a hero city. Today tours to Murmansk are a unique opportunity to get acquainted with the Russian north and admire its soft, but very beautiful nature.
History with geography
The first explorers of these places appeared on the shores of the Barents Sea in 1912. Three years later, they founded a seaport on Murman, and built a village where workers lived. The need to create a port was dictated by military conditions - the First World War was going on. The founding of the city is another kind of record for Murmansk. It became the last city founded in the Russian Empire, and was called Romanov-on-Murman until 1917.
Modern Murmansk stretches for two tens of kilometers along the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea and in the immediate vicinity of it in Severomorsk the base of the Northern Fleet of Russia is deployed.
Briefly about the important
- When planning tours to Murmansk, it makes sense to carefully study the weather forecast. The climate here depends on the northern latitude and the proximity of the Barents Sea and allows for rather mild weather conditions compared to cities located at similar latitudes. Severe frosts in Murmansk are quite rare, and the average January temperature hovers around -10. In summer, the city is humid and cool, and the temperature rarely exceeds +20 degrees.
- Murmansk airport is located 24 kilometers from the city. It receives flights daily from Moscow and the northern capital of Russia. Murmansk residents have the opportunity to go with direct flights to Norway and Helsinki, as well as to the resorts of Egypt and Turkey.
- Participants of tours to Murmansk will be interested to know that the city trolleybus is also a world record holder. Its routes are the most northerly on the planet.
- For fans of the history and nature of their native land, the Murmansk Museum of Local Lore is of undoubted interest, because it demonstrates to the visitors the only exposition of the seabed in the country. A dry aquarium is a geological finding recovered from the depths of the earth while drilling an ultra-deep well.
- All Russian icebreakers are assigned to the Murmansk port. On board one of them - the nuclear-powered vessel "Lenin" - a unique museum of Arctic exploration was opened in 2009.
