January 15, 2025: In late 2024, facilities at Murmansk in northwest Russia were being upgraded to deal with possible Ukrainian drone attacks. Now that Russia was attacking Ukrainian power supplies and ...

Yes, the fact that Murmansk doesn’t get any sunlight for 40 days during the polar night period might at first scare some people away. But, in fact, this unique experience attracts many tourists to the ...

Murmansk, or “Monamourmansk” as the locals affectionately refer to it, was the last city to be founded by the Russian Empire but, nonetheless, it has a very turbulent and important history. During the ...

Photographer Amos Chapple took a "night-mode" enabled smartphone camera to document life in Russia’s north through the polar night. This is Murmansk, the largest city in the Arctic Circle. The picture ...

Murmansk: the city where the sun doesn't rise for 40 days – in pictures For six weeks every winter, the 300,000 people of Murmansk in the north-west of Russia must live without daylight.

The largest city in the Russian Arctic expects global warming to change its trading fortunes with the revival of the northern sea route It’s noon in Murmansk, but the sky is dark. Chunky silhouettes ...

So the Murmansk government ordered all facilities related to keeping Murmansk warm be fortified and protected in other ways. In a place like Murmansk, loss of heat during the coldest part of the year ...