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Here you will find a lot of information which can be useful to prepare your stay in Murmansk and of cause also during your visit – Murmansk from A to Z. We will update this information continuously and hope that you have a pleasant stay in the biggest city of the world north of the Arctic Circle. Welcome to our city!
Before WWI Murmansk was just a small village. A quite impressing development started after the ice-free harbour was build in 1915-16 and the railroad to Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) and the central parts of Russia was in use. The first name of the city, which officially was founded on the 4th of October 1916, was Romanov-on-Murman, to honour the Tsar-family Romanov. After the revolution Murmansk, the city got it`s present name. Murmansk was occupied by the anti-Bolshevist Intervention-forces in 1918-20. 
