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Kirovsk is a small town and ski resort in Murmansk Oblast, northwestern Russia.

Understand

The city of Kirovsk was established in the 1930s as an apatite mining town in the Khibiny Mountains. Originally named Khibinogorsk (after the mountains), it was soon renamed Kirovsk, after the Communist politician assassinated in 1934.

Get in

  • 1 Kirovsk-Apatity Airport. Has a few flights a day to Moscow and St Petersburg. Kirovsk-Apatity Airport (Q1748568) on Wikidata Kirovsk-Apatity Airport on Wikipedia
  • The nearby city of Apatity has a station on the Moscow-Murmansk railway, with several trains each day in either direction.
  • Kirovsk is away from the main St Petersburg-Murmansk highway, and, therefore, is a dead station for the regional bus service. Buses run to Apatity, Monchegorsk, Murmansk, Kandalaksha.

Get around

See

A wintry Kirovsk, with Khibiny Mountains in background.

Do

  • Polar-Alpine Botanical Gardens. Previously the northernmost botanical garden in the world, showcases a lot of Arctic flora.

Buy

Eat

Drink

Sleep

  • 1 Hotel Severnaya, Lenina Prospekt 11, +7 815 313-31-00.

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