Kandalaksha - Kandalaksha Kandalaksha (Finnish: Kannanlahti) is a city in north western Russia with a population of 54.000 (1989). The city is located in the Murmansk Oblast by the Kandalaksha Bay of the White Sea. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Kola Peninsula - South. The west border of the Kola Peninsula stretches along the meridional cavity from the Kola Gulf through the Imandra Lake, Kola Lake, Niva River to the Kandalaksha Gulf. Covers the area of about 100 000 square km. The north coast is steep and high, the southern is flat. In the west part of the peninsula the mountain ranges are situated: the Khibiny Mountains, the Lovoserskie Mountains (up to 1120 m height). In the central part of the peninsula there's the Keyvy watershed. Kola peninsula is exremely reach with different ores and minerals. Among the others are apatites, alumina sources, iron ore, mica, ceramic raw, titanium ore, flogopit, vermiculit, ores of less-common and colored metals. Nevertheless the northen location, the Kola Peninsula has relatively warm and soft climate, because of influence.
