Kirovsk , known as
Khibinogorsk until 1934, is a town in
Murmansk OblastMurmansk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , located in the north-western part of Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Murmansk.-Geography:...
,
RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, located at the spurs of the
Khibiny MassifThe Khibiny Massif, Khibiny Mountains or Khibins is one of the two main mountain ranges of the Kola Peninsula, Russia.The massif is of oval shape of about 1,300 sq.km. and occupies the central part of the peninsula at a relative elevation of 900-1000 m above the surrounding plain. The highest...
on the shores of the Lake Bolshoy Vudyavr some 175 km south of
MurmanskMurmansk is a city and seaport in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, 12 km from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland....
. Population: 31,000 (2005 est.); 38,000 (1970).
Kirovsk was founded in 1929, soon after an expedition led by
Alexander FersmanAlexander Yevgenyevich Fersman was a prominent Soviet geochemist and mineralogist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences ....
had discovered large deposits of
apatiteApatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxyapatite, fluorapatite, chlorapatite and bromapatite, named for high concentrations of OH
−, F
−, Cl
− or...
and
nephelineNepheline, also called nephelite , is a feldspathoid: a silica-undersaturated aluminosilicate, Na3KAl4Si4O16, that occurs in intrusive and volcanic rocks with low silica, and in their associated pegmatites...
in the Khibiny Massif in the 1920s. It was granted town status in 1931 and later renamed Kirovsk after Sergei Kirov, who had been in charge of planning the development of the deposits.
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Kirovsk , known as
Khibinogorsk until 1934, is a town in
Murmansk OblastMurmansk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia , located in the north-western part of Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Murmansk.-Geography:...
,
RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, located at the spurs of the
Khibiny MassifThe Khibiny Massif, Khibiny Mountains or Khibins is one of the two main mountain ranges of the Kola Peninsula, Russia.The massif is of oval shape of about 1,300 sq.km. and occupies the central part of the peninsula at a relative elevation of 900-1000 m above the surrounding plain. The highest...
on the shores of the Lake Bolshoy Vudyavr some 175 km south of
MurmanskMurmansk is a city and seaport in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, 12 km from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland....
. Population: 31,000 (2005 est.); 38,000 (1970).
Kirovsk was founded in 1929, soon after an expedition led by
Alexander FersmanAlexander Yevgenyevich Fersman was a prominent Soviet geochemist and mineralogist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences ....
had discovered large deposits of
apatiteApatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually referring to hydroxyapatite, fluorapatite, chlorapatite and bromapatite, named for high concentrations of OH
−, F
−, Cl
− or...
and
nephelineNepheline, also called nephelite , is a feldspathoid: a silica-undersaturated aluminosilicate, Na3KAl4Si4O16, that occurs in intrusive and volcanic rocks with low silica, and in their associated pegmatites...
in the Khibiny Massif in the 1920s. It was granted town status in 1931 and later renamed Kirovsk after Sergei Kirov, who had been in charge of planning the development of the deposits. Kirovsk boasts the most northern
botanical gardenBotanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes. Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material. Botanical gardens may also serve to entertain and...
in Russian Federation. Kirovsk is currently becoming a popular
ski resortA ski area is a developed recreational facility, usually on a mountain or large hill, containing ski trails and vital supporting services. It is common for a ski area to have food, rental equipment, parking facilities and a ski lift system catering to the sports of skiing and snowboarding...
.
Ilya Kelmanzon, then mayor of Kirovsk, was shot dead in his office on March 25, 2009.
12 miners, all of them in their twenties were killed in an explosion in the Rasvumchorrsky mine near Kirovsk in Dec 2008.
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