The Kola Nuclear Power Plant, also known as Kolsk NPP or Kolskaya NPP, is a nuclear power plant located 12 km away from Polyarnye Zori, Murmansk Oblast in north-western Russia. If the floating nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonosov is excluded, it is the northernmost nuclear power plant housed in a fixed location structure.
Kola Nuclear Power Plant
Turbine Hall at the Kola Nuclear Power Plant
Reactor Unit 1 at the Kola Nuclear Power Plant
Image: Мурманская обл. Кольская АЭС Сбросной кананал.2008 22
Murmansk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, located in the northwestern part of the country, with a total land area of 144,900 square kilometres (55,900 sq mi). Its only internal border is the Republic of Karelia to the south, as well is bordered internationally by Finland to the west and Norway to the northwest and the Barents Sea lies to the north and White Sea lies to the south and east. Its administrative center is the city of Murmansk. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 795,409, but at the 2021 Census this had declined to 667,744.
Vaidagubsky lighthouse in Murmansk Oblast
Oblast Administration (right) and City Administration (left) buildings on Lenina Avenue, Murmansk
The Polar Alpine Botanical Garden (Полярно-альпийский ботанический сад-институт) in Kirovsk
A Norilsk Nickel plant (formerly, Severonikel) in Monchegorsk