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ID: 7010199
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010199
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Murmansk (inhabited place)  Murmansk (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 68 59 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 68.9833  decimal degrees
Long: 033 08 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 33.1333  decimal degrees

Note: Name means "edge of the earth"; base for British, French & American forces against Bolsheviks 1918; noted for largest fish-processing plant in Europe; ice-free harbor makes it nation's only port with unrestricted access to Atlantic & other seas.

Names:
Murmansk (preferred,C,V,O)
Gorod Murmansk (C,U)
Muurmanni (C,U)
Мурманск (C,U,Russian-P)
Romanov-Na-Murmante (H,V)  ............ unitl 1917

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Russia (nation)  ........  Russia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Murmansk Oblast (oblast)  ............  Murmansk Oblast (oblast) (P)
Hierarchy of Murmansk (inhabited place)  ................  Murmansk (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1915 as a supply port in WW I
city (C)
regional capital (C)
port (C)
fish-processing center (C)
transportation center (C)
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Мурманск..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2961506
Gorod Murmansk..........  [VP]
.............................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2961506
Murmansk..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 431
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2961506
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 134
Muurmanni..........  [VP]
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2961506
Romanov-Na-Murmante..........  [VP]
...................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 431
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 431
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2961506
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 134
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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