Tamara Pryamikova enters the office of the head of Murmansk
Tamara Pryamikova has entered the office of the head of Murmansk today, 1 November 2018, says PR Department of the Murmansk Region Government. Tamara Pryamikova was congratulated by Murmansk Region Governor Marina Kovtun and other representatives of Murmansk authorities.
The Governor wished the new head of the polar capital strength and energy.
“I am standing up for the decision of the City Council’s deputies. It is a pleasure to welcome a native Murmansk citizen, a skillful and an active deputy to the position of the city head. Murmansk is a city of extensive construction. It attracts more and more attention as a key point of Russian Arctic”, said Marina Kovtun emphasizing that the regional government will always support Tamara Pryamikova.
The Murmansk Region has a special strategic status for Russia. Geographical location defined the Kola Peninsula as a priority element in ensuring the geopolitical interests of Russia in the north of Europe and the Arctic. Its non-freezing deep-water the Kola Bay became the main base of the Northern Fleet, and Murmansk sea port became the center of industrial fishing in the Barents Sea and the North Atlantic, and the starting point of the Arctic.
Today, Murmansk is the only port in European Russia with an open access to major oceanic routes. Port of Murmansk has direct access to the Northern Sea Route, that links the Atlantic to the Pacific through the arctic waters and provides access to natural resources of the Far North, Siberia and the Far East.
The Murmansk Region located at the junction of transnational routes and having reliable sea, railway, road and air links with industrial Russian regions can surely be called a northern gateway of Russia.
The region consists of 40 municipal territories, including 12 urban okrugs (Murmansk is the regional capital), 5 municipal districts and 23 settlements, 13 of them urban and 10 of them rural.
Murmansk is the biggest town with its 295.2 thousand people population as of 1 January 2018.
