Murmansk: Why the largest ARCTIC city EXISTS?

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Murmansk has a population of roughly 300'000 people. That makes it the largest city in the arctic circle. How did this city begin and why live so far north? Explore some Russian history and geography with me.
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Murmansk, the Arctic capital
At a latitude of roughly 65.5 lies the Arctic circle. Few major human settlements exist within its borders. The largest of these settlements is Murmansk and as its name suggests it is a city on the edge of the world.
It lies 2 degrees above the Arctic circle and is 108 kilometers from the Norwegian Border and 182 from the Finnish. The closest major Russian city is St Petersburg roughly 900km away.
The city experiences Polar nights for roughly 40 days at a time. This means that between early December and mid January the sun does not rise. The opposite starts from the middle of May till the end of August during which the sun does not set.
For an Arctic city the climate is relatively mild with peak summer temperatures averaging 12.9c in July and peak winter cold in February at -10.7c on average.
This is largely a benefit of the warm North Atlantic current
This means that Murmansk is the only Russian port with unrestricted and easy year round access to the North Atlantic Ocean.
As a result, the port is the 4th largest in the country and is one of the main stops along the Arctic's Northeast Passage connecting Asia and Europe making Murmansk one of the most strategically important assets for Russia.
In the early stages of WW1 Russia had only two harbours in its Northwest, the one in St Petersburg and Anhargelsk. With the first port blockaded and the other freezing over during winter another port was necessary.

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@GeoPerspective 3 жыл бұрын

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@battlet0adz 2 жыл бұрын

I live in murmansk and i started to notice the changes. First of all many projects of energy and infrastructures began to appear. No bad :)

@urban1215 Жыл бұрын

О привет))) я тоже в Мурманске живу)

@V4MP1R3__ Жыл бұрын

My family lives in Murmansk:))

@kristiinakutserova409 4 ай бұрын

Hei, i am looking from murmansk my family from my father side, if somebody know the person Aleksandr Kutserov, give me knowing. :) Its is my father brother and have been missing. Maybe somebody see this messasges. 😃

@cliffwoodbury5319 2 жыл бұрын

They should build a true high-speed rail quadrent linking Arkhangelsk/Moscow/Mermansk/St. Petersburg. this would help with population stability!

@Unc3 Жыл бұрын

the terain between them would make this project either stupid expensive, or take a massive detour making it super inefficient.

@cliffwoodbury5319 Жыл бұрын

@@Unc3 sounds off topic but the real project that needs to happen here is to expand the white sea/baltic sea canal so world class ships can move threw it and once that happens all other transit modes would be more than worth building in their best/most efficient/most expensive versions!!!

@shadowcobra69 2 ай бұрын

Mermansk to St Petersburg sounds feasible and reasonable but high speed rail to Arkhangelsk is useless and would be a stupid waste of money.

@eliseysct9750 Жыл бұрын

Thank u so much!! Idk who else made so detailed videos about topics like this in languages other than Russian

@kayaekman3092 Жыл бұрын

I live in Murmansk. Its very interesting place.

@davidtexas9009 10 күн бұрын

Murmansk is interesting because of its history. Is it nice to live there?

@spawn11 6 күн бұрын

is life busy or more laid back?? Hows affordability food, shelter, cars, insurance, electricity, cooking gas bills, petrol prices??

@oskarthompson3789 3 жыл бұрын

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@GeoPerspective 3 жыл бұрын

Super appreciate the comments, thanks Oskar :)

@EmmaEgede 6 ай бұрын

@@GeoPerspectiveYou are also a russophobic 🤡

@geoffdevore6321 Жыл бұрын

Murmansk was a important port during WW2!!

@v4l4r4k 2 ай бұрын

During the Great Patriotic War, Murmansk also provided important assistance in the supply of both weapons and fish. Also, Murmansk survived 4 wars, and no one was able to conquer it) I'm proud of my hometown❤

@seangilhooley5385 2 жыл бұрын

Plan on Visiting Murmansk next summer! Great video and great channel! Just subscribed!

@lilbullet158 Жыл бұрын

@Geo Perspective I hope you get this one. Also, Sorry for the length of this comment. Hi there, just some info you (or potentially anyone else who may come across this comment), may be interested in. I’m an Old Man by KZfaq standards and my late Father (God rest his soul), served in The Royal Navy during practically the whole of WWII (mainly assigned to Mine Sweepers, which were some of the Unsung Heroes of that War). Like many other sailors he went out in the open ocean on many a mission, so to speak and I still have the medals he was awarded (also his ‘Blue-nose’ certificate which I believe was given to those sailors who had crossed the Arctic Circle). One of those Missions was to take part in The Very First Ever WWII Large scale Convoy to sail from Scaperfow to Murmansk. A mission that proved to be something of an ‘Education’ for The Royal Navy simply because it showed how Unprepared the Royal Navy ships were for how Freezing Cold it could actually get. When they discovered they were getting literally Inches of Ice forming ‘Inside’ their ships. From that point on they began to greater insulated their ships. That, however, is a different story. This story is about something that happened when my fathers ship was moored in the Port of Murmansk. Basically they happened across a young Orphaned Russian boy, between the age of 9 to 13, who could not speak a word of English and who, presumably, had lost all his family members to the conflict. The boy was in a terrible state, practically starving and in Rags for clothing. The sailors took pity on the boy, took him aboard their ship for a few days, gave him food to help build his strength up . They also fashion a little sailors outfit for him and gave him the Nickname ‘Timoshenko’, named after the Soviet Military Commander Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko. Obviously and inevitably (also sadly), they had to hand the boy over to the authorities so what became of that little boy, if he survived that War or not is unknown. But I know somewhere in my house there is a *First Print Original Photograph* of that boy, standing with the sailors aboard ship, wearing the little uniform they made for him. It is most likely the only surviving ‘Original’ Photograph of the boy. I also know for certain there is an account of the incident written in a book called *‘Out-sweeps!’ by Paul Lund. Which is a Story of the Minesweepers in World War II.* However, his account of what actually happened could prove somewhat controversial. But that’s another story.

@GeoPerspective Жыл бұрын

I wish I had your deep knowledge of the history here when I made this video :D thanks for the comment and for watching

@lilbullet158 Жыл бұрын

@@GeoPerspective Unnecessary compliment I fear. Sadly my knowledge of that particular part of history is not 'deep', it only goes as far as those details I remember my late father telling me. It is hard enough to remember the details of your own life but one thing is for sure I wish I would have written down everything my late father told me... I cannot help but wonder, however, if anyone living in Murmansk knows the story of that young Orphaned Russian boy

@user-jm8uc5gi4r 7 ай бұрын

@@lilbullet158 Добрый день! Я внимательно прочитала вашу историю и историю вашего отца. Вернее, его экипажа, который приютил русского мальчика - сироту. За что им большое спасибо 🙏. Но я так думаю, что этого мальчика привел к вам не голод, а простое детское любопытство: увидеть людей, которые пришли помочь СССР. Спасибо вам большое 🌹. Думаю, что всё у него сложилось хорошо. Наш Мурманск фашисты почти полностью разбомбили 😢, остались одни печные трубы. Но люди продолжали работать, выходили в море ловить рыбу и добывали рыбу для всей страны. Думаю, что и мальчик был так же пристроен и не погиб.

@spaccy6349 Жыл бұрын

Nice video. Deserves more views. Murmansk has always fascinated me, a city of that size so isolated and far up north

@user-jm8uc5gi4r 7 ай бұрын

Наш Мурманск не изолированный, по Северному морскому пути мы попадаем в Китай. В обход европы 😁. У нас морские суда ледокольного класса, так же атомоходы. Добро пожаловать в Россию, в Мурманск 💖, крупнейший город за Полярным кругом 🏙️❄️✨

@davidtexas9009 10 күн бұрын

Very informative documentary

@ZNDascurrr 4 жыл бұрын

Good Video bro

@olliemackenzie8658 Жыл бұрын

This deserves more views

@Fares.SA37-4 2 ай бұрын

I visited Russia once and I thought it's too cold, but I was horribly wrong. In here I'll turn into a popsicle in no time

@vilme1986 Жыл бұрын

3:38 *Scapa Flow, **Reykjavik, ***Arkhangelsk, only one out of four spelt right

@zmeeglavsubnigrisoculis7959 3 жыл бұрын

These submarines are without nuclear reactors. These are only enclosures that are recyclable.

@GeoPerspective 3 жыл бұрын

Did not know

@sol3cito33 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome content! Oh, I'd love to move to Murmansk!

@GeoPerspective 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment :D! Moving there, I'm not sure about that but I would love to go on a mega road trip around Russia.

@sol3cito33 3 жыл бұрын

@@GeoPerspective I love winters, snow and cold, and miss them a lot. Originally from Hungary, I grew up with proper winters. They exist no more and I moved to the UK, even less winter taste. Thus, I am not joking, if an opportunity ever comes to move to anywhere in Russia, I'd go. My favourite would be Dikson, Vorkuta and Verkhoyansk. :-P Any chance for a video on any of them, please?

@GeoPerspective 3 жыл бұрын

@@sol3cito33 Pretty extreme choices, I would much rather live in Hungary and get the best of both worlds. Those cities are unfortunately a little too remote for a video. No one searches for them so I have little incentive.

@sol3cito33 3 жыл бұрын

@@GeoPerspective Makes sense. How about Norilsk? :-)

@GeoPerspective 3 жыл бұрын

@@sol3cito33 I have a vid on Norilsk :D wish I had made it longer: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atJzmJCKr7zXY5c.html

@user-ks3ei5ni1k 3 жыл бұрын

Super! But where can I find the full script?

@GeoPerspective 3 жыл бұрын

I haven't gotten around to posting this script to the blog ( geoperspective.org/blog/ ) yet but I can put this one up tomorrow since you asked :)

@anastasiabaryshenskaya5597 3 жыл бұрын

@@GeoPerspective Thanks a million!

@GeoPerspective 3 жыл бұрын

@@anastasiabaryshenskaya5597 It's up: geoperspective.org/murmansk-the-arctic-capital/

@dajdasdq 3 жыл бұрын

The Russian Northern Fleet is stationed in Severomorsk, not in Murmansk.

@GeoPerspective 3 жыл бұрын

04:50

@spawn11 6 күн бұрын

Russia doing much better than Canada when it comes to populate harsher areas. They have lots of cities with population over 100,000 people in Siberia too. Canada doesnt have any such cities in Yukon, Nunavut or NWT

@Wakanda4bigmama 3 ай бұрын

Well now I'm starting to think this whole thing w your daughter was a marketing stunt for your podcast

@miglius1992 9 ай бұрын

Murmansk is one of the biggest trash cities of Arctic, all the Russian trash gets dumped from there own apartment window!

@thefirstguyinthevillage9496 8 ай бұрын

Не ври , я тут живу и у нас так не поступают

@miglius1992 8 ай бұрын

@@thefirstguyinthevillage9496 by the shool 10 there soviet baraks apartments and before round bell into mormasks also same situasjon when I was there last just before the war. Sentrum okay not so much trash you can come across. But in these sovet apartments that strech from Murmansk entrence all the way to sentrum its another story and by the docks into the sea where there are people still living in the house where its almost to cave in. Crazy that russian state dont take care of people over there...

@user-ne9ko1ew3q 5 ай бұрын

В Индию езжай там чисто