Pechenga Bay (Russian: Печенгская губа, Finnish: Petsamonvuono; also Petsamo Fjord and Pechenga Fjord) is a fjord-like bay of the Barents Sea on the Kola Peninsula in the Murmansk Oblast, Russia, about 25 km east from the border with Norway. The area was part of Finland from 1920 until 1944. It has rocky shores and stretches inland for 17 km. The Pechenga River discharges into the bay. The settlements of Pechenga and Liinakhamari are located on the shores of the bay.
PechengaBay (Russian: Печенгская губа, Finnish: Petsamonvuono; also Petsamo Fjord and Pechenga Fjord) is a fjord-like bay of the Barents Sea on the Kola...
The Pechenga Monastery (Russian: Печенгский монастырь; Finnish: Petsamon luostari) was for many centuries the northernmost monastery in the world. It was...
2021-05-20. Retrieved 2021-05-20. "Russia's new landing ship sails into PechengaBay, takes on board a battalion of special operations troops". Archived from...
Island, Severnaya Zemlya PechengaBay, Kola Peninsula Penkigney Bay, Chukchi Peninsula Polisadov Bay, Novaya Zemlya Providence Bay, Chukchi Peninsula Pukhov...
connecting the town of Rovaniemi to the port of Liinakhamari by the PechengaBay of the Barents Sea. It was opened in 1931 as the first highway in the...
Barents Sea. The Pechenga River discharges into the bay. A Russian naval, formerly Soviet, base is located on the shores of the bay. It is part of the...
Norway Liinakhamari, Russia Murmansk, Russia Nakhodka in Nakhodka Bay, Russia Pechenga, Russia Prince Rupert, Canada Valdez, United States Vardø, Norway...
the century mark. On 15 June 1944, as a German convoy is entering the PechengaBay, 7. Staffel was consistently tasked with providing fighter protection...
Scandinavian Peninsula and sailed to the Kola Peninsula and the White Sea. The Pechenga Monastery on the north of Kola Peninsula was founded by Russian monks in...
took effect at 19:00 18 July, Israel had taken the lower Galilee from Haifa Bay to the Sea of Galilee. With smuggled Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress planes acquired...
Armeno-Georgian War Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts Viena expedition First Pechenga expedition Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia German Revolution of 1918–1919...
pack in the mouth of the Arzina River (Russian: Арзина река) east of the Pechenga Monastery and later were found with their crews frozen. Ivan IV also known...
Armeno-Georgian War Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts Viena expedition First Pechenga expedition Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia German Revolution of 1918–1919...
extraction in Kandalaksha and Kola was mostly carried out by the monasteries in Pechenga and Solovki, and for a long time remained the only "industry" on the peninsula...
Ropucha-class landing ships Peresvet and Admiral Nevelskoy, the tanker Pechenga and the rescue tug Fotiy Krylov augmented the Russian Navy's grouping there...
but the strike was stayed by an event on the far side of the world. The Bay of Pigs Invasion failed, and that failure gave pause to U.S. actions in Laos...
Armeno-Georgian War Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts Viena expedition First Pechenga expedition Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia German Revolution of 1918–1919...
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