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Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Federal subject
- Murmansk Oblast
- Administrative district
- Kolsky District
- Town status since
- August 2, 1965
- Elevation
- 60 m (200 ft)
- Total
- 10,437
- Estimate 2023
- 8,933 ( −14.4% )
- Capital of
- Kolsky District
- Municipal district
- Kolsky Municipal District
- Urban settlement
- Kola Urban Settlement
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( MSK )
- Dialing code
- +7 81553
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Encyclopedic overview
Kola (Russian: Ко́ла; Northern Sami: Guoládat; Skolt Sami: Kuâlõk) is a town and the administrative center of Kolsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kola and Tuloma Rivers, 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) south of Murmansk and 24 kilometers (15 mi) southwest of Severomorsk. It is the oldest town of the Kola Peninsula. Population: 10,437 (2010 census); 11,060 (2002 Census); 16,541 (1989 Soviet census).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kola” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.