Roslyakovo () was an urban locality (an

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) under the administrative jurisdiction of the closed-administrative territorial formation of

Severomorsk Severomorsk (), known as Vayenga () until 18 April 1951, is a closed city, closed types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Severomorsk is the main administrative base of the Russian Northern Fleet. The town is sit ...

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, located on the

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on the

Kola Bay Kola Bay () or Murmansk Fjord is a 57-km-long fjord of the Barents Sea that cuts into the northern part of the Kola Peninsula. It is up to 7 km wide and has a depth of 200 to 300 metres. The Tuloma, Rosta and Kola Rivers discharge into ...

, west of Severomorsk proper. It was abolished, with its territory merged into the city of

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 ...

, on January 1, 2015.Law #1812-01-ZMO Population:

History

It was founded in 1896. The

colony A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule, which rules the territory and its indigenous peoples separated from the foreign rulers, the colonizer, and their ''metropole'' (or "mother country"). This separated rule was often orga ...

of Roslyakovo was one of the twenty-one included into Alexandrovskaya Volost of Alexandrovsky Uyezd,

Arkhangelsk Governorate Arkhangelsk Governorate () was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 until 1929. Its seat was in Arkhangelsk. The governorate was located in the north of the Russ ...

upon its establishment on July 1, 1920.''Administrative-Territorial Division of Murmansk Oblast'', p. 66

Urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...

status was granted to Roslyakovo in 1959. Roslyakovo was in jurisdiction of the closed administrative-territorial formation of

until January 1, 2015, when it was abolished, with its territory merged into the city of

. There is no restaurant or cafe in town. Formerly, there was a medical clinic. There are "a few 7-Eleven-sized grocery stores." The Church of St. Michael the Archangel, founded in 1991, is the only church in the town. Most of the population are in the

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, or work as navy contractors. Shipbuilding is a local industry. After merging and enlarging two graving docks for the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, Roslyakovo has the largest drydock in European Russia.Russia’s Cursed Aircraft Carrier Is Finally In A Drydock That Can’t Sink
, The Drive , Published May 20, 2022

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, the state owned oil company, is opening facilities in the town.

Citations

*Official website of Murmansk Oblast.
Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Murmansk Oblast
' * * * {{Colonies of Teriberskaya Volost (1920) 1896 establishments in the Russian Empire 2015 disestablishments in Russia Abolished inhabited localities in Murmansk Oblast Murmansk Populated coastal places in Russia Populated places disestablished in 2015 Populated places established in 1896 Kolsky Uyezd