Мурманск 1960-е годы / Murmansk in the 1960s

Мурманск 1960-е годы

Murmansk in the 1960s

Музыка:
Ирина Погодкина - Песня о Мурманске

Music:
Irina Pogodkina - Song about Murmansk

Here I present a series of photographs of the great port city of Murmansk, the last city founded in the Russian Empire. In 1915, World War I needs led to the construction of the railroad from Petrozavodsk to an ice-free location on the Murman Coast in the Russian Arctic, to which Russia's allies shipped military supplies.The terminus became known as the Murman station and soon boasted a port, a naval base, and an adjacent settlement with a population that quickly grew in size and soon surpassed the nearby towns of Alexandrovsk and Kola.

During The Great Patriotic War, Murmansk was a link to the Western world for the Soviet Union with large quantities of goods important to the respective military efforts traded with the Allies: primarily manufactured goods and raw materials into the Soviet Union. The supplies were brought to the city in the Arctic convoys..........