#murmansk oblast

[piroshky]

Reindeer herding in the Kola Peninsula, Céline Clanet.

[pangeen]

“ Auroras & Shipwreck “ // © Pavel Matveev 

Music: DJ Enfusion & Pegasus - The Revenant

[zombilenium]

Teriberka village, Teriberka, Murmansk oblast, Russia,

Courtesy: Masha Koko

[sitting-on-me-bum]

“Winged Aurora”

Murmansk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia, January 15, 2022

© Alexander Stepanenko

© Astronomy Photographer of the Year

[travelella]

Teriberka, Murmansk Oblast, Russia

Evgeny Matveev

[unidot]

Where each Valorant agent is from. Most of these are either confirmed or heavily hinted in lore

Africa:

Cypher - Morocco/Rabat

Astra - Ghana/Accra

Asia:

Sage - China

Iso - China/Chongqing

Jett - South Korea/Seoul

Yoru - Japan

Neon - Philippines/Metro Manila/Taguig

Harbor - India/Maharashtra/Mumbai

Europe:

Killjoy - Germany/Berlin

Phoenix - UK/England/London

Breach - Sweden

Chamber - France/Paris

Deadlock - Norway

Clove - UK/Scotland/Edinburgh

North America:

Brimstone - USA/Maryland/Baltimore

Viper - USA/Washington/Seattle

Gekko - USA/California/Los Angeles

Reyna - Mexico

South America:

Raze - Brazil/Bahia/Salvador

Australia:

Skye - Australia/New South Wales/Nimbin

Eurasia (counts as both Europe and Asia):

Sova - Russia/Murmansk Oblast/Severomorsk

Fade - Turkey/Istanbul

Unknown:

Omen

KAY/O

[sovietpostcards]

Picking cranberries in Murmansk oblast (USSR, 1974)

[cinematic-phosphenes]

Northern lights over an abandoned weather station in Teriberka, Murmansk Oblast, Russia (x)

[flagwars]

Russian Federal Subject Flag Wars: Round 1

This tournament will focus on the flags of Russia’s 83 federal subjects, which includes 21 republics, 9 krais, 46 oblasts, 2 federal cities, 1 autonomous oblast, and 4 autonomous okrugs. It will not include the flags of the land stolen from Ukraine.

The tournament will be followed by the Regional Flag Wars, a huge competition featuring the flags of regions/administrative divisions, with only one flag per country. Over the past year, I’ve released numerous polls to decide which regional flag will be included for each country. Russia is the final country on the list, and it is receiving its own tournament due to having so many administrative divisions. I hope everyone enjoys this tournament and is looking forward to the Regional Flag Wars! The Russian Federal Subject Flag Wars will begin this week.

Round 1:

1. Tver Oblast vs. Amur Oblast vs. Jewish Autonomous Oblast vs. Kamchatka Krai vs. Karelia

2. Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug vs. Bashkortostan vs. Tambov Oblast vs. Udmurtia vs. Kursk Oblast

3. Samara Oblast vs. Pskov Oblast vs. Adygea vs. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug vs. Khakassia

4. Khabarovsk Krai vs. Kalmykia vs. Altai Krai vs. Zabaykalsky Krai vs. Mordovia

5. Moscow Oblast vs. Dagestan vs. North Ossetia–Alania vs. St. Petersburg vs. Saratov Oblast

6. Primorsky Krai vs. Yaroslavl Oblast vs. Leningrad Oblast vs. Astrakhan Oblast vs. Komi Republic

7. Krasnoyarsk Krai vs. Irkutsk Oblast vs. Omsk Oblast vs. Lipetsk Oblast vs. Kabardino-Balkaria

8. Moscow vs. Ingushetia vs. Kostroma Oblast vs. Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug vs. Tomsk Oblast

9. Perm Krai vs. Orenburg Oblast vs. Stavropol Krai vs. Volgograd Oblast vs. Belgorod Oblast

10. Mari El vs. Kaliningrad Oblast vs. Sverdlovsk Oblast vs. Sakha vs. Arkhangelsk Oblast

11. Krasnodar Krai vs. Penza Oblast vs. Buryatia vs. Nizhny Novgorod Oblast vs. Kurgan Oblast

12. Chelyabinsk Oblast vs. Nenets Autonomous Okrug vs. Karachay-Cherkessia vs. Murmansk Oblast vs. Altai Republic

13. Novosibirsk Oblast vs. Tuva vs. Vologda Oblast vs. Smolensk Oblast vs. Novgorod Oblast

14. Tatarstan vs. Sakhalin Oblast vs. Ulyanovsk Oblast vs. Ryazan Oblast vs. Chechnya vs. Tyumen Oblast

15. Ivanovo Oblast vs. Chuvashia vs. Vladimir Oblast vs. Rostov Oblast vs. Magadan Oblast vs. Bryansk Oblast

16. Kaluga Oblast vs. Kemerovo Oblast vs. Oryol Oblast vs. Kirov Oblast vs. Voronezh Oblast vs. Tula Oblast

[aviationgeek71]

Hawker Hurricane Flight Cmdr Lt Pyotr Leontyevich Kolomiets with the Soviet 78th Fighter Aviation Regiment (IAP) , Murmansk Oblast, Russia (1942). 

[inputoutpoot]

Cars of the north. 

Teriberka, Murmansk Oblast, 2022 

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[piroshky]

Kola Peninsula, Céline Clanet.

[fuckyeahplattenbau]

Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast by Dmitry Gornaev

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Bright Blues in the Barents

When summer arrives at high northern latitudes, peripheral seas to the Arctic Ocean lose some of their ice cover and bask in long daylight hours. That’s when phytoplankton—microscopic plant-like organisms that often float near the ocean surface—can bloom across large swaths of these waters.

Summer conditions in the Barents Sea, a shallow shelf sea off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia, are conducive to these expansive, visually stunning blooms. In late July and early August 2024, communities of phytoplankton grew and drifted at the whims of winds and currents in the Barents Sea. The VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on the NOAA-21 satellite captured this cloud-free image of the bloom on August 9.

Many phytoplankton species live in these cool waters, but the milky blue color in this scene suggests that the bloom contains coccolithophores, a type of plankton plated with white calcium carbonate. The coccolithophore species Emiliana huxleyi is a common constituent of Barents Sea blooms at this time of year, as it thrives when waters become warmer and more stratified. In the spring and early summer, when waters are better-mixed and higher in nutrients, blooms are typically composed of diatoms. This microscopic form of algae with silica shells and ample chlorophyll appears green in natural-color satellite images.

Tendrils of smoke from wildland fires in northern Russia also drift across the scene. Global Forest Watch reported 42 fire alerts in Murmansk Oblast based on detections by VIIRS sensors from August 5–12, 2024. Although fire is the main driver of tree cover loss in this region, the fire season has been quiet until this point.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). Story by Lindsey Doermann.

[arinewman7]

The Northern Lights in the sky over an abandoned weather station near Teriberka, Murmansk Oblast, Russia

[cacatoto-2024]

Severomorsk 

Severomorsk (bahasa Rusia: Североморск, har. 'kota laut utara') adalah sebuah kota tertutup yang terletak di Oblast Murmansk, Rusia, yang menjadi pangkalan administratif utama Armada Utara Rusia. Kota ini terletak di pesisir Laut Barents sepanjang Semenanjung Kola, yang berjarak 25 kilometer ke arah timur laut dari Murmansk, ibu kota oblast.