The lighthouse Monument

This monument is to honour the people who have died in the Barents Sea in peacetime

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Russia part I - Murmansk and Kola Peninsula

June 26th 2008
The sun hasn't set on this town yet I (Ake) had some time on my hands now after Emma and I came home from Dublin and had nothing planned. So I went to Murmansk in northern Russia. Emma had to work and couldn't join me. But she wasn't interested in going there anyway. She couldn't see the point in visiting Murmansk. When I arrived at Murmansk airport I was asked by a man I met there why I decide ... read more

Europe » Russia » Northwest » Kola Peninsula » Murmansk

Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more

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