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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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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).