Мурманск (Murmansk)
Мурманск (Murmansk) is the capital city of its oblast, on the north shore of the Kola Peninsula--that is, along the Murman Coast, and in the Northwest Federal District of Россия (Rossiya1). The city became significant in the 20th century as a military port. As of 2014 it has an estimated population of 299 thousand.2 The Hotel Artika (185 feet) is the tallest building, although two wired masks and one framed mask are taller.3 The city hosts an important commodity port.4
External references
Port of Murmansk, Murmansk Oblast, Northwest Federal District, Rossiya
Footnotes
1. Also transliterated as Rossija; in English: Russia.
2. Side banner of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murmansk, accessed acc. Dec. 6, 2016.
3. Emporis.com, acc. Jan. 16, 2017. The framed Murmansk TV Tower (1957) is 610 feet high; the Murmansk Longwave Radio Mast and the Murmansk TV Mast, both wired, are 843 and 541 feet respectively.
4. Alastair Cooper, ed., The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map. The symbol marked at Murmansk is for phosphate, bauxite and/ or alumina.
