Zarechensk
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Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Zarechensk
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Зареченск
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- top
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Murmansk Oblast
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Kandalakshsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur
- Zarechensky Territorial Okrug
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_type
- Territorial okrug
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Rural locality
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_type
- Inhabited locality
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
- Kandalakshsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur
- Zarechensk Rural Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of
- Zarechensk Rural Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 621
- Russian inhabited locality.postal_codes
- 184004
- Russian inhabited locality.dialing_codes
- 81533
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Zarechensk () is a rural locality (an inhabited locality) in Kandalakshsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located beyond the Arctic Circle at a height of above sea level. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 621.
Zarechensk is located on the eastern shore of the river Iova (an upper section of the Kovda), away from the district center Kandalaksha. The settlement was founded in 1956 around the Iova hydroelectric station and was initially named Posyolok Iovskoy GES after it. On 6 September 1957, it was renamed to Zarechensk and granted the status of a work settlement.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zarechensk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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