Naryan-Mar
Sign in to saveNaryan-Mar (; ) is a sea and river port town and the administrative center of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The town is situated on the right bank of the Pechora River, upstream from the river's mouth, on the Barents Sea. Naryan-Mar lies north of the Arctic Circle. Population: 17,000 (1973). About half of the population of Nenetsia lives in the city.
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Naryan-Mar is a port town in far northern Russia that serves as the administrative center of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, located on the Pechora River just south of where it meets the Barents Sea, well above the Arctic Circle. The town is significant because it is home to roughly half of the region's population and functions as a major center for sea and river commerce in this remote Arctic area.
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- Няръяна мар
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Naryan-Mar (; ) is a sea and river port town and the administrative center of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The town is situated on the right bank of the Pechora River, upstream from the river's mouth, on the Barents Sea. Naryan-Mar lies north of the Arctic Circle. Population: 17,000 (1973). About half of the population of Nenetsia lives in the city.
==History== Industrial development in the area around Naryan-Mar began in 1930, in the course of the first five-year plan of the Soviet Union. The growth of the region was the direct result of the development of the Pechora coalfield and the construction of related industrial infrastructure.