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Coordinates: 69°2450N 30°1355E / 69.41389°N 30.23194°E / 69.41389; 30.23194
 

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Nikel
Никель
Mid-July 2011 view of Nikel
Mid-July 2011 view of Nikel
Coat of arms of Nikel
Location of Nikel
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Nikel is located in Russia
Nikel

Nikel

Location of Nikel

Nikel is located in Murmansk Oblast
Nikel

Nikel

Nikel (Murmansk Oblast)

Coordinates: 69°24′50N 30°13′55E / 69.41389°N 30.23194°E / 69.41389; 30.23194
CountryRussia
Federal subjectMurmansk Oblast[1]
Administrative districtPechengsky District[1]
Founded1936Edit this on Wikidata
Elevation
140 m (460 ft)
Population
 • Total12,756

Administrative status

 • CapitalofPechengsky District[1]

Municipal status

 • Municipal districtPechengsky Municipal District[3]
 • Urban settlementNikel Urban Settlement[3]
 • CapitalofNikel Urban Settlement[3]
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK Edit this on Wikidata[4])
Postal code(s)[5]
184421Edit this on Wikidata
Dialing code(s)+7 81554
OKTMOID47615151051

Nikel (Russian: Ни́кель, lit. nickel; Finnish: Nikkeli; Norwegian: Nikkel) is an urban locality (anurban-type settlement) and the administrative centerofPechengsky DistrictofMurmansk Oblast, Russia,[1] located on the shores of Lake Kuets-Yarvi 196 kilometers (122 mi) northwest of Murmansk and 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) from the Norwegian borderon E105. Population: 12,756 (2010 Russian census);[2] 16,534 (2002 Census);[6] 21,838 (1989 Soviet census);[7] 18,000 (1973).

History[edit]

In the 1920 Treaty of Tartu, Soviet Russia ceded the area of PetsamotoFinland.[8] In the 1930s huge reserves of nickel were found on fells nearby. The amount was estimated to be five million tons. In 1934, the Finnish Government awarded the mining right to the British Mond Nickel Co, subsidiary of International Nickel Co (Inco), that founded the Petsamon Nikkeli Oy mining company. The company began building a railway, as well as other infrastructure, between the town, then known as Kolosjoki, and Liinahamari harbor.

In the Winter War of 1939–1940, the Soviet Union occupied Petsamo. In the following peace agreement only the Finnish part of the Rybachy Peninsula was ceded to the Soviet Union, although the Soviets had occupied all of Petsamo during the war. In summer 1940, the Finnish government took over the mines from the British company. The first mining operations began in the same year. During World War II, the ore was mainly sold to Germany. The hydro power plant in Jäniskoski started operations in 1942, making it possible to smelt the ore locally.

In December 1943 Albert Speer, German Minister of Armaments and War Production, flew on an inspection tour to Kolosjoki, which by then was the sole supplier of nickel to the Third Reich. Captured during the invasion of Russia, the mines’ ore heaps remained in the yards and had not been shipped out due to a priority of bomb-proofing the power station and smelter. By placing the power plant security on a lower priority, Speer was able to make the transportation shipments of the vital ore to Germany move quicker.[9]

In 1944, the Red Army occupied Petsamo, and Finland had to cede it to the Soviet Union as part of the Moscow Armistice signed on September 19, 1944.[8] Retreating German forces destroyed the power plant and partially the smelter. On July 21, 1945, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union decreed to establish Pechengsky District with the administrative center in Nikel on the ceded territory and to include this district as a part of Murmansk Oblast.[8]

Ecology[edit]

Norilsk Nickel plant in Nikel

The town is linked to the Norilsk Nickel plant Kola MMC nearby where many of its citizens have been employed and which has caused environmental and health concerns for the population. The nickel smelter which has been an eyesore in Norway–Russia relations for decades due to its extreme pollution levels has usually deposited its sulfur dioxide fumes to the south of the town where the countryside is a brown moonscape of bald hills, barren of plant life for kilometers around.[10] In the summertime, the toxic fumes which for the rest of the year rarely blew northwards towards the town occasionally did just that, making breathing difficult and even burning holes in people's umbrellas.[10]

The nickel smelter closed down in 2020.[11] This led to a strong improvement in water and air quality in the region.[12]

Recent events[edit]

The video of English alternative rock band White Lies, Farewell to the Fairground, was filmed there in early 2009.[citation needed]

Sister City[edit]

References[edit]

Apartment buildings in Nikel

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e Государственный комитет Российской Федерации по статистике. Комитет Российской Федерации по стандартизации, метрологии и сертификации. №ОК 019-95 1 января 1997 г. «Общероссийский классификатор объектов административно-территориального деления. Код 47 215», в ред. изменения №278/2015 от 1 января 2016 г.. (State Statistics Committee of the Russian Federation. Committee of the Russian Federation on Standardization, Metrology, and Certification. #OK 019-95 January 1, 1997 Russian Classification of Objects of Administrative Division (OKATO). Code 47 215, as amended by the Amendment #278/2015 of January 1, 2016. ).
  • ^ a b Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  • ^ a b c Law #539-01-ZMO
  • ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  • ^ Информация об объекте почтовой связи (in Russian). Russian Post. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
  • ^ Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian).
  • ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. 1989 – via Demoscope Weekly.
  • ^ a b c Administrative-Territorial Division of Murmansk Oblast, p. 54
  • ^ Speer, Albert. 1970. Inside the Third Reich. New York: Macmillan. Page 382.
  • ^ a b Antonova, Maria (July 25, 2008). "Balancing Growth and Environment". The Moscow Times. Archived from the original on August 3, 2008. Retrieved July 25, 2008.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  • ^ "Mining comes to end in Nikel", The Barents Observer, 12 May 2023
  • ^ "Sharp Decrease in Heavy Metals in Norwegian-Russian Border River", High North News, 14 February 2023
  • ^ The model of twin cities Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Barents Institute Reprint (2008) no. 2
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