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Murmansk (Russian Federation)
Region: North-West Federal District
Local time: 04:31 pm (+3:00 GMT)
Population: 318 thousand people
Transport: Railway Station, Sea Port, Bus station, Airport
Status: city of the regional subjection, administrative center of Murmansk region.
Phone code: +7 8152******
It is situated beyond the Polar circle, in a range zone of everfrost rocks on the
rocky eastern shore of Kola bay of the Barents Sea (so called Murmansk coast), in
1967 km. to the north from Moscow.
Economy
The main Murmansk industries are: fishery and fish processing, sea transport, shiprepairing, sea, railway and automotive transportations, metalworking, food industryморские, geological oceanography, geological exploration on the arctic sea shelf.
Leading enterprises: "Murmansk Trawl Fleet", industrial association "Murmanrybprom", integrated house-building factory, timber and box factory, associations "Arcticmorneftegasrazvedka" and "Sojuzmorgeo" (exploration and development of the north sea shelf), "Murmansk Shipping Company", "Union of Fishery Managers of the North", "Murmansk Shiprepairing Plant of the Ministry of Sea Fleet", "Sevmorput (north sea rout)".
Agriculture: animal breeding (meat and milk production). Deer breeding, plants growing are highly developed (fodder production).
Culture
Theatres: Legitimate Drama Theatre, Puppet Theatre, Theatre of the North Fleet. Philarmonic.
Museums: Naval Museum of the North Fleet, Museum of History of Polar Olympiads, Fine Art and Local Lore Museums.
Seaquarium.
Sightseeings: memorials to the defenders of the North Polar Region (Murmansk Aleosha); seamen perished in peacetime; victims of the foreign intervention; Semenovskoe lake, fountain, bridge across the Kola bay and Cathedral Spas na Vodakh.
