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Olenegorsk

Murmansk Oblast, Russia
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About Olenegorsk

Olenegorsk is a town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. The railway station of Olenya was opened in 1916, with the construction of the Murman Railway. The station facilities, and the small settlement associated with the station had been positioned to the east of the railroad. Their significance became fairly extended in the 1930s, as Olenya have become a junction for the railway department to the newly constructed metropolis of Monchegorsk some 30 kilometers to the southwest. In 1949, work commenced on the iron ore strip mines and ore-processing centers some kilometers to the west of the Olenya station. At the equal time, construction of a organization town, at first additionally named Olenya, began among the rail station and the mines, to the west of the railway.

In December 1949, it was granted work agreement popularity. By the March 27, 1957 Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR, the work settlement of Olenya become granted the status of a city under district jurisdiction, subordinated to Monchegorsk, and given its gift call. The railway station, but, retained the call Olenya and was now not renamed Olenegorsk till the 1980s. Olenegorsk turned into extended in fame to that of a metropolis beneath oblast jurisdiction by the August 10, 1981 Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Decree, and numerous inhabited localities previously subordinated to Monchegorsk were transferred to Olenegorsk by the August 26, 1981 Decision of the Murmansk Oblast Executive Committee.

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