Nautsi () was a
rural locality
In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry are typically describ ...
in
Pechengsky District
Pechengsky District (; ; ; ; ) is an administrative district (raion), one of the six in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.Law #96-01-ZMO As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Pechengsky Municipal District.Law #539-01-ZMO It is located in the north ...
of
Murmansk Oblast
Murmansk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the northwestern part of the country, with a total land area of . Its only internal border is the Republic of Karelia to the south, and it is bor ...
,
Russian SFSR
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,
Soviet Union
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. It lies on the east bank of the
Paatsjoki River, which forms part of the
border between Norway and Russia. Prior to it abandonment in 1962, Nautsi was the westernmost village in the Soviet Union.
History
Prior to
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
, between 1921 and 1944, Nautsi was a Finnish village in
Petsamo Province
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. Finnish forces retreated to this location in 1939 during the
Winter War
The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peac ...
.
During World War II,
Germany
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sought to capture this area because of the nearby
nickel
Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive, but large pieces are slo ...
mines.
Nautsi became a part of the Soviet Union in 1945. It was officially abolished on December 13, 1962.
References
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[{{cite book, title=The War of 1939, pages=39–40, editor1=Vernon Bartlett , editor2=W. Gordon Williams , editor3=Geoffrey Pomeroy Dennis, publisher=The Caxton Publishing Co., year=1940]
[{{cite book, author1=Mann, Chris, author2=Jörgensen, Christer, year=2003, pag]
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title=Hitler's Arctic War: the German campaigns in Norway, Finland, and the USSR, 1940-1945, series=Thomas Dunne Books, publisher=Macmillan, isbn=0-312-31100-1, url-access=registration, url=https://archive.org/details/hitlersarcticwar00mann/page/212
[{{cite book, last=Архивный отдел Администрации Мурманской области. Государственный Архив Мурманской области., title=Административно-территориальное деление Мурманской области (1920-1993 гг.). Справочник, publisher=Мурманское издательско-полиграфическое предприятие "Север", year=1995, location=Мурманск, page=215]
Abolished inhabited localities in Murmansk Oblast