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Polyarny
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Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Federal subject
- Murmansk Oblast
- Mayor
- Vladimir Cherepov
- Elevation
- 20 m (66 ft)
- Total
- 17,293
- Estimate 2023
- 12,154 ( −29.7% )
- Subordinated to
- closed administrative-territorial formation of Alexandrovsk
- Capital of
- closed administrative-territorial formation of Alexandrovsk
- Urban okrug
- Alexandrovsk Urban Okrug
- Postal codes
- 184650, 184651, 184653
- Dialing code
- +7 81551
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Encyclopedic overview
Polyarny (Russian: Поля́рный) is a town and the administrative center of the closed administrative-territorial formation of Alexandrovsk in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, situated on the outermost western side of the Kola Bay. Population: 17,293 (2010 census); 18,552 (2002 census); 27,635 (1989 Soviet census).
It was previously known as Alexandrovsk (until 15 March 1926), Alexandrovskoye (until 11 March 1931), Polyarnoye (until 19 September 1939).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polyarny” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.