Imandra () is a
rural locality
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(a ''
Selo'') in
Olenegorsk municipality of
Murmansk Oblast
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,
Russia
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. The village is located on the eastern shore of
Lake Imandra
Imandra (, Russian: Имандра, Finnish: ''Imantero'') is a lake in the south-western part of the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, slightly beyond the Arctic Circle. It is located 127 m above sea level; its area is about 876 k ...
, at an elevation of 154 m above sea level.
History
The station of Imandra may have been a part of
Imandrsky Selsoviet, which possibly existed in 1922–1924 in
Kolsko-Loparskaya Volost
Kolsko-Loparskaya Volost () was at various times an administrative division (a volost) of Kemsky, Kolsky, and Alexandrovsky Uyezds of Arkhangelsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (and later of the Russian SFSR), and then of Murmansk Governorat ...
of
Alexandrovsky Uyezd of
Arkhangelsk Governorate
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in the
Russian SFSR
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and the Russian Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the labo ...
, although some documents included it as a part of
Yekostrovsky Selsoviet.
[''Administrative-Territorial Division of Murmansk Oblast'', p. 69]
Transportation
The Imandra station on the
St. Petersburg—
Murmansk
Murmansk () is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far Far North (Russia), northwest part of Russia. It is the world's largest city north of the Arctic Circle and sits on both slopes and banks of a modest fjord, Ko ...
railway is located here.
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Rural localities in Murmansk Oblast