Information about the city of Apatity
Status: a town of regional subordination, the Murmansk Region.
The town is situated on the Kola Peninsula, between Lake Imandra and Khibiny
Massif, 185 km. south from Murmansk.
Phone code: +7 81555*****
Economy.
- Apatite-Nepheline Concentrating Plant (АNCP-2) is a component part of
the "Apatit" OJSC.
- Ore mining and processing mill, "Apatitstroyindustria" association
- "Agrofirm "Industria" OJSC
- Apatity TPP
- Kola State District Power Station
Transport.
The "Khibiny" airport is situated 7 km. east from the town, where regular
flights from Moscow and Saint-Petersburg are realized.
Science.
Apatity town is the scientific center of polar region. Kola Science Center
of the Russian Academy of Science n.a. S.M. Kirov is located in Apatity. It consists
of 12 institutes, including 9 of them which are located in Apatity.
- Geological Institute, which studies subsurface resources
of the Kola Peninsula, discovers regularities in location and scientific foundation
of mineral exploration
- Mining Institute, which studies problems of mining and concentrating
- Institute of Chemistry and Technologies of Rare Elements and Mineral Raw
Materials of the Kola Peninsula
- Institute of Physical and Technical Problems of Power Industry in the North
- Institute of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling of Work Processes
- Institute of Industrial Ecology of the North
- Kola Regional Seismological Center
- Institute of Economical Problems
- International Center of Science, Culture and Education
- Experimental station of All-Union Plant Research Institute (VNIIR),
which gathers, preserves living resources, and studies the world
genetic resources of plants for their effective use
Culture.
- Mineralogical museum of the Institute of Geology KSC RAS (the most attractive
for visitors is collection of colourful minerals of the unique Khibiny and Lovozersky alkali massives,
Kovdor massives and amazonite pegmatites of the Western Caves)
- Museum of Investigation and Development History of the European North
(exposition presents the history of land settlement in the Kola Peninsula,
the history of science development in the Kola Peninsula, the history and study of
everyday life of indigenous inhabitants of the Kola territory - Saami)
- Museum of History and Local Lore
- Museum of Stone (geological museum of "Apatit" OJSC)
- "Salma-Art" Art Salon-Workshop (production and sale of decorative, applied and
folk art articles)
- "Danaya" art center
