Murmansk region, Polyarnye Zori: getting to know the city

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Polyarnye Zori

- a city (since 1991) in the Murmansk region of Russia. The center of the urban district is the city of Polyarnye Zori. Near the city there is the Kola Nuclear Power Plant.

Population - 14,794[1] people. (2016).

Geography

The city is located on the banks of the Niva River and Lake Pinozero, 224 km from Murmansk. The nearest settlements are Zasheyek (3 km), Pinozero (4 km), Nivsky (8 km) and Afrikanda (13 km). The city is surrounded by the territory of Zasheikovsky forestry. Polar Zori is one of the northernmost cities where the polar night is not observed. The shortest day (December 22) in Polyarnye Zori lasts 21 minutesK: Wikipedia: Articles without sources (type: not specified) [ source not specified 3008 days

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Education[ | ]

As of 2010, in the district there are 6 preschool educational institutions (5 in Polyarnye Zorya, 1 in Afrikand) and 6 educational institutions, including gymnasium No. 1, evening (shift) school No. 1, 3 secondary schools (2 in Polyarnye Zori, 1 in Afrikand) and the House of Children's Creativity in Polyarnye Zori[29].

In addition, in Afrikanda and Polyarnye Zori there are children's art schools, and in the administrative center there is a children's and youth sports school[29].

Story

It appeared in 1968, as part of the Apatitsky district near the working village of Zasheyek, as a settlement for builders of the Kola Nuclear Power Plant.

The settlement of Polyarnye Zori was included in the registration data and received the status of a working village by decision of the Murmansk Regional Executive Committee No. 640 of December 20, 1973.

The status of a city of regional subordination was assigned by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR dated April 22, 1991. Previously, the village and the surrounding area were subordinate to the city council of Apatity.

The head of the construction department, in fact the founder of the city of Polyarnye Zori and the Kola Nuclear Power Plant, was Alexander Stepanovich Andrushechko.

Geography[ | ]

The district is located in the southern part of the Kola Peninsula on the southern and northern coasts of the Babinskaya and Ekostrovskaya Imandra lakes. The terrain of the territory is low-mountain, sloping towards Imandra.

In the north, the district borders with the municipal district of the city of Monchegorsk, in the north and east - with the municipal district of Apatity, in the south - with the Kandalaksha district, in the west - with the urban district of Kovdorsky district.

The distance from the administrative center of the district to Murmansk is 220 kilometers.

Population

The population living in the territory of the settlement, according to the 2010 All-Russian Population Census, is 15,096 people, of which 7,175 are men (47.5%) and 7,921 are women (52.5%)[13][14].

A few words about refugees.

Well, I’d like to talk separately about Syrian refugees. Somewhat unexpected, right? But as it turned out, the Syrians are also harsh, and they choose harsh routes to Europe along the Murmansk-Norway route. The main difficulty in this route is crossing the transport border! The main emphasis should be on the word “transport”; accordingly, you cannot cross the border on your own. And so the unfortunate Syrians bought bicycles en masse in Murmansk and used them to cross the cherished border, after which they abandoned our bicycles there, in Europe. Local residents said the sight of refugees on bicycles was impressive.

Enterprises

The city-forming enterprise is the Kola Nuclear Power Plant, which employs about 2,000 people[15]. About a thousand people are employed at municipal enterprises[16].

Also in the city there are Niva HPP-1 (26 MW), Atomenergoremont OJSC, Kola Elektromontazhnaya, Energospetsmontazh OJSC, R-Trans, electric (54 MW) and fuel oil boiler houses, medical unit No. 118, branches of Sberbank and DNBNor Bank , several supermarkets, as well as other firms and enterprises.

Economics[ | ]

The basis of the economy of the municipality is the electric power industry, and the city-forming enterprise is the Kola Nuclear Power Plant, which provides more than half of the electricity produced in the region. Other large enterprises of the district are: Betonny LLC, Agro - an agricultural enterprise LLC, the main focus of which is dairy farming, as well as enterprises of the housing and communal services complex - Teplovodosnabzhenie OJSC, Elektroseti OJSC, Polyarnozorinsk branch of Kolenergosbyt OJSC, LLC "Grad, Santekhmontazh LLC, Interpolusmontazh LLC, Nord-Service LLC, Liftservice LLC, Spetsavtohozyaystvo LLC[27].

The average salary in the district among employees of large and medium-sized enterprises in 2008 was 43,707 rubles. At the beginning of 2009, 287 unemployed were registered[28].

Infrastructure

Transport

The city has developed bus and taxi services. Travel to the Kola Nuclear Power Plant and the Salma ski complex is provided by company buses. The main highway connecting the city with the rest of the country is E 105

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M18
, passes half a kilometer from the city limits. For suburban transport, the Kandalaksha - Polyarnye Zori - Apatity electric train is used; there is a railway station in the city. The nearest airport is Khibiny.

Connection

There are 4 GSM cellular operators in the city: Megafon, MTS, Beeline, Tele2. All operators provide GPRS services. CDMA2000 standard cell phones are serviced by the SkyLink operator. Wired communications are provided by the Murmansk branch of OJSC Rostelecom (formerly the Murmansk branch of OJSC NWTelecom), including broadband Internet services using ADSL and FTTx technologies. A fiber optic cable MELS (1 Gbit/s) has been laid to the city. Internet in the city is provided by 2 providers of OJSC Rostelecom and a cable television network.

City administration, city council

The first mayor of the city of Polyarnye Zori was Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Chistova, a former Komsomol worker in the city of Apatity. Currently works in the administration of the governor of the Murmansk region.

Valery Mironov was elected as the second mayor. Before his election, he worked as the head of the Polyarnozorinsky branch of the tax inspectorate.

The third mayor was Vladimir Lukich Goncharenko, who worked as Valery Mironov’s deputy before being elected to the position.

Since 2006, the 4th mayor of the city has been the former head of the legal department of the Kola Nuclear Power Plant, Nikolai Nikolaevich Goldobin.

In November 2013, Maxim Olegovich Pukhov was elected mayor of the city.

Notes

1. ↑ 123
   www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2016/bul_dr/mun_obr2016.rar Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2016
2. [demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus79_reg2.php All-Union Population Census of 1979 The size of the urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender.] (Russian). Demoscope Weekly. Retrieved September 25, 2013. [www.webcitation.org/6GDOjhZ5L Archived from the original on April 28, 2013].
3. [demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus89_reg2.php All-Union Population Census of 1989. Urban population]. [www.webcitation.org/617x0o0Pa Archived from the original on August 22, 2011].
4. ↑ 123456789
   www.MojGorod.ru/murmansk_obl/poljarnzori/index.html People's encyclopedia “My City”. Polar dawns
5. [www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/1_TOM_01_04.xls All-Russian Population Census 2002. Volume. 1, table 4. Population of Russia, federal districts, constituent entities of the Russian Federation, districts, urban settlements, rural settlements - regional centers and rural settlements with a population of 3 thousand or more]. [www.webcitation.org/65AdCU0q3 Archived from the original on February 3, 2012].
6. [www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/B09_109/IssWWW.exe/Stg/d01/tabl-21-09.xls Number of permanent population of the Russian Federation by cities, urban-type settlements and districts as of January 1, 2009]. Retrieved January 2, 2014. [www.webcitation.org/6MJmu0z1u Archived from the original on January 2, 2014].
7. [murmanskstat.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/murmanskstat/resources/aa332b004e80f75784f8f7b8fc91c3ba/14650.zip All-Russian Population Census 2010. Volume 1 “Number, distribution and age-sex composition of the population of the Murmansk region”]. Retrieved February 2, 2014. [www.webcitation.org/6N5F3qERD Archived from the original on February 2, 2014].
8. www.gks.ru/dbscripts/munst/munst47/DBInet.cgi?pl=8112027 Murmansk region. Estimated resident population as of January 1, 2009-2015
9. [www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2012/bul_dr/mun_obr2012.rar Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities. Table 35. Estimated resident population as of January 1, 2012]. Retrieved May 31, 2014. [www.webcitation.org/6PyOWbdMc Archived from the original on May 31, 2014].
10. [www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2013/bul_dr/mun_obr2013.rar Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2013. - M.: Federal State Statistics Service Rosstat, 2013. - 528 p. (Table 33. Population of urban districts, municipal districts, urban and rural settlements, urban settlements, rural settlements)]. Retrieved November 16, 2013. [www.webcitation.org/6LAdCWSxH Archived from the original on November 16, 2013].
11. [www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2014/bul_dr/mun_obr2014.rar Table 33. Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2014]. Retrieved August 2, 2014. [www.webcitation.org/6RWqP50QK Archived from the original on August 2, 2014].
12. [www.gks.ru/free_doc/doc_2015/bul_dr/mun_obr2015.rar Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2015]. Retrieved August 6, 2015. [www.webcitation.org/6aaNzOlFO Archived from the original on August 6, 2015].
13. Statistical collection [murmanskstat.gks.ru/census/DocLib1/Volumes%20official%20publication%20togo%20VPN-2010.aspx Number, distribution and age-sex composition of the population of the Murmansk region. Results of the All-Russian Population Census. Volume 1. 2012] / Federal State Statistics Service, Territorial body of the Federal State Statistics Service for the Murmansk region. Murmansk, 2012 - 75 p.
14. [murmanskstat.gks.ru/census/DocLib7/02.doc Population of the Murmansk region by gender as of October 14, 2010]
15. [www.atomic-energy.ru/node/2084 Kola NPP: Polarnozorin residents will receive awards from the “Engineer of the Year 2008” competition]
16. [www.pz-city.ru/city/municipals/ Municipal enterprises and institutions on the city website]
17. ↑ 123
    [ke.culture51.ru/Goroda-pobratimi-p1581.html Sister cities of the Murmansk region] // Kola Encyclopedia. In 5 volumes. T. 1. A - D / Ch. ed. A. A. Kiselev. - St. Petersburg: IS; Apatity: KSC RAS, 2008. - P. 502.

An excerpt characterizing Polar Dawns

Natasha, pale and frightened, ran into the living room. - Mom, Bolkonsky has arrived! - she said. - Mom, this is terrible, this is unbearable! – I don’t want... to suffer! What should I do?... Before the countess even had time to answer her, Prince Andrey entered the living room with an anxious and serious face. As soon as he saw Natasha, his face lit up. He kissed the hand of the Countess and Natasha and sat down near the sofa. “We haven’t had the pleasure for a long time...” the countess began, but Prince Andrei interrupted her, answering her question and obviously in a hurry to say what he needed. “I wasn’t with you all this time because I was with my father: I needed to talk to him about a very important matter.” “I just returned last night,” he said, looking at Natasha. “I need to talk to you, Countess,” he added after a moment of silence. The Countess, sighing heavily, lowered her eyes. “I am at your service,” she said. Natasha knew that she had to leave, but she could not do it: something was squeezing her throat, and she looked discourteously, directly, with open eyes at Prince Andrei. "Now? This minute!... No, this can’t be!” she thought. He looked at her again, and this look convinced her that she was not mistaken. “Yes, now, this very minute, her fate was being decided.” “Come, Natasha, I’ll call you,” the countess said in a whisper. Natasha looked at Prince Andrei and her mother with frightened, pleading eyes, and left. “I came, Countess, to ask for your daughter’s hand in marriage,” said Prince Andrei. The countess's face flushed, but she said nothing. “Your proposal...” the countess began sedately. “He was silent, looking into her eyes. – Your offer... (she was embarrassed) we are pleased, and... I accept your offer, I’m glad. And my husband... I hope... but it will depend on her herself... - I will tell her when I have your consent... do you give it to me? - said Prince Andrei. “Yes,” said the countess and extended her hand to him and, with a mixed feeling of aloofness and tenderness, pressed her lips to his forehead as he leaned over her hand. She wanted to love him like a son; but she felt that he was a stranger and a terrible person for her. “I’m sure that my husband will agree,” said the countess, “but your father...” “My father, to whom I told my plans, made it an indispensable condition of consent that the wedding should take place no earlier than a year.” And this is what I wanted to tell you,” said Prince Andrei. – It’s true that Natasha is still young, but for so long. “It couldn’t be otherwise,” said Prince Andrei with a sigh. “I will send it to you,” said the countess and left the room. “Lord, have mercy on us,” she repeated, looking for her daughter. Sonya said that Natasha is in the bedroom. Natasha sat on her bed, pale, with dry eyes, looking at the icons and, quickly crossing herself, whispering something. Seeing her mother, she jumped up and rushed to her. - What? Mom?... What? - Go, go to him. “He asks for your hand,” the countess said coldly, as it seemed to Natasha... “Come... come,” the mother said with sadness and reproach after her running daughter, and sighed heavily. Natasha did not remember how she entered the living room. Entering the door and seeing him, she stopped. “Has this stranger really become everything to me now?” she asked herself and instantly answered: “Yes, that’s it: he alone is now dearer to me than everything in the world.” Prince Andrei approached her, lowering his eyes. “I loved you from the moment I saw you.” Can I hope? He looked at her, and the serious passion in her expression struck him. Her face said: “Why ask? Why doubt something you can’t help but know? Why talk when you can’t express in words what you feel.” She approached him and stopped. He took her hand and kissed it. - Do you love me? “Yes, yes,” Natasha said as if with annoyance, sighed loudly, and another time, more and more often, and began to sob. - About what? What's wrong with you? “Oh, I’m so happy,” she answered, smiled through her tears, leaned closer to him, thought for a second, as if asking herself if this was possible, and kissed him. Prince Andrei held her hands, looked into her eyes, and did not find in his soul the same love for her. Something suddenly turned in his soul: there was no former poetic and mysterious charm of desire, but there was pity for her feminine and childish weakness, there was fear of her devotion and gullibility, a heavy and at the same time joyful consciousness of the duty that forever connected him with her. The real feeling, although it was not as light and poetic as the previous one, was more serious and stronger. – Did maman tell you that this cannot be earlier than a year? - said Prince Andrei, continuing to look into her eyes. “Is it really me, that girl child (everyone said that about me) Natasha thought, is it really from this moment that I am a wife, equal to this stranger, sweet, intelligent man, respected even by my father. Is that really true! Is it really true that now it’s no longer possible to joke with life, now I’m big, now I’m responsible for my every deed and word? Yes, what did he ask me? “No,” she answered, but she did not understand what he was asking. “Forgive me,” said Prince Andrei, “but you are so young, and I have already experienced so much of life.” I'm scared for you. You don't know yourself. Natasha listened with concentrated attention, trying to understand the meaning of his words and did not understand. “No matter how difficult this year will be for me, delaying my happiness,” continued Prince Andrei, “in this period you will believe in yourself.” I ask you to make my happiness in a year; but you are free: our engagement will remain a secret, and if you were convinced that you do not love me, or would love me ... - said Prince Andrei with an unnatural smile. - Why are you saying this? – Natasha interrupted him. “You know that from the very day you first arrived in Otradnoye, I fell in love with you,” she said, firmly convinced that she was telling the truth. - In a year you will recognize yourself... - A whole year! – Natasha suddenly said, now only realizing that the wedding had been postponed for a year. - Why a year? Why a year?...” Prince Andrei began to explain to her the reasons for this delay. Natasha didn't listen to him. - And it’s impossible otherwise? – she asked. Prince Andrei did not answer, but his face expressed the impossibility of changing this decision. - It's horrible! No, this is terrible, terrible! – Natasha suddenly spoke and began to sob again. - I will die waiting a year: this is impossible, this is terrible. “She looked into the face of her fiancé and saw on him an expression of compassion and bewilderment. “No, no, I’ll do everything,” she said, suddenly stopping her tears, “I’m so happy!” – Father and mother entered the room and blessed the bride and groom. From that day on, Prince Andrei began to go to the Rostovs as a groom. There was no engagement and Bolkonsky’s engagement to Natasha was not announced to anyone; Prince Andrei insisted on this. He said that since he was the cause of the delay, he must bear the entire burden of it. He said that he was forever bound by his word, but that he did not want to bind Natasha and gave her complete freedom. If after six months she feels that she does not love him, she will be within her right if she refuses him. It goes without saying that neither the parents nor Natasha wanted to hear about it; but Prince Andrei insisted on his own. Prince Andrei visited the Rostovs every day, but did not treat Natasha like a groom: he told her you and only kissed her hand. After the day of the proposal, a completely different, close, simple relationship was established between Prince Andrei and Natasha. It was as if they didn't know each other until now. Both he and she loved to remember how they looked at each other when they were still nothing, now both of them felt like completely different creatures: then feigned, now simple and sincere. At first, the family felt awkward in dealing with Prince Andrei; he seemed like a man from an alien world, and Natasha spent a long time accustoming her family to Prince Andrei and proudly assured everyone that he only seemed so special, and that he was the same as everyone else, and that she was not afraid of him and that no one should be afraid his. After several days, the family got used to him and, without hesitation, continued with him the same way of life in which he took part. He knew how to talk about the household with the Count, and about outfits with the Countess and Natasha, and about albums and canvas with Sonya. Sometimes the Rostov family, among themselves and under Prince Andrei, were surprised at how all this happened and how obvious the omens of this were: the arrival of Prince Andrei in Otradnoye, and their arrival in St. Petersburg, and the similarity between Natasha and Prince Andrei, which the nanny noticed on their first visit Prince Andrei, and the clash in 1805 between Andrei and Nikolai, and many other omens of what happened were noticed by those at home.