Kirovsk

Kirovsk, called Khibinogorsk till 1934, is a city in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, placed at the spurs of the Khibiny Mountains on the seashores of the Lake Bolshoy Vudyavr, a 175 kilometers south of Murmansk. A agreement which subsequently have become Kirovsk become based in 1929, quickly after an day trip led by means of Alexander Fersman had found massive deposits of apatite and nepheline within the Khibiny Massif in the 1920s.

By the quit of 1930, its population grew to ten thousand human beings, and a mining and chemical plant right here was nicely below production. Due to the speedy boom, the Presidium of the Murmansk Okrug Executive Committee petitioned on January 18, 1931 to furnish the settlement town repute and to call it Khibinogorsk. The petition became authorized by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Resolution on October 30, 1931 and the city became subordinated at once to the Murmansk Okrug Executive Committee.

On December 15, 1934, the metropolis changed into renamed Kirovsk after lately assassinated Sergey Kirov, who had been in rate of planning the improvement of the deposits. On February 26, 1935, while new Kirovsky District turned into set up on part of the territory of Kolsko-Loparsky District, Kirovsk was transferred to it and made its place of work. On May 6, 1954, by way of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, Kirovsk turned into extended in reputation to that of a city under oblast jurisdiction. Kirovsky District turned into abolished, and its territory turned into subordinated to Kirovsk.