This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

History Museum Attractions In Umba

x
Umba is an urban locality in Tersky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Kola Peninsula at the point where the Umba River flows into the Kandalaksha Gulf. Population: 5,532 ; 6,497 ; 8,309 .First mentioned in 1466, Umba, along with Varzuga, is the first documented permanent Russian settlement on the Kola Peninsula. From the second half of the 15th century it served as the seat of Umbskaya Volost. Transportation There is a bus from to Umba from Kandalaksha, going twice a day. The airport from Umba serves parts of the south edge of the Peninsula inaccessible by auto. Priority in buying tickets is given to locals, and reserving them was not...
Continue reading...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Filter Attractions:

History Museum Attractions In Umba

  • 2. The Museum of the History of Kandalaksha Kandalaksha
    Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slavs, especially Poles, as a slave-labour force for the Axis war effort, and to seize the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories.In the two years leading up to the invasion, Germany and the Soviet Union signed political and economic pacts for strategic purposes. Nevertheless, the German High Command began planning an invasion of the Soviet Union in July 1940 , which Adolf Hitler authorized on 18 December 1940. Over the course of the operation, about four million A...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Umba Videos

Shares

x
x
x

Near By Places

Menu