The Kola Norwegians were Norwegian settlers along the coastline of the Russian Kola Peninsula. Location of Kola south of the Barents Sea. ...

In 1860 the Russian Tsar Alexander II granted his permission for Norwegian settlements on the Kola. Around 1870, scores of Norwegian families from Finnmark in the northernmost part of Norway had departed for the Kola coast. They were attracted by the prospects of fishing and trade. The Russian authorities granted them trade privileges to enable their trade with Norway. 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... Look up Tsar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the US community of Czar, see Czar, West Virginia. ... Alexander (Aleksandr) II Nikolaevitch (Russian: Александр II Николаевич) (born April 17, 1818 in Moscow; died March 13, 1881 in St. ... 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Finnmark (Sami Finnmárku) is a county in the extreme northeast of Norway, bordering Troms to the west, Finland (Lapland) to the south and Russia (Murmansk Oblast) to the east. ...

Most of them had settled in Tsyp-Navolok (Цыпнаволок) on the easternmost tip of the Rybachiy Peninsula (Norwegian: Fiskerhalvøya, both the Russian and Norwegian names literally mean: Peninsula of the Fishermen). Others settled in Vaydaguba (Вайдагуба) at the northwestern tip (мыс Немецкий, Cape Nemetskiy, "Cape German") of the same peninsula. A vibrant Norwegian society developed, with close contact with the home country, especially with the town of Vardø. Even if some settlers returned to Norway shortly after the Russian Revolution of 1917, most of them remained at Tsyp-Navolok. Rybachiy Peninsula (Russian: Полуостров Рыбачий, Norwegian: Fiskerhalvøya, Finnish: Kalastajasaarento) is the Northernmost part of the European part of Russia. ... Rybachiy Peninsula (Russian: Полуостров Рыбачий, Norwegian: Fiskerhalvøya, Finnish: Kalastajasaarento) is the Northernmost part of the European part of Russia. ... County Finnmark Landscape Municipality NO-2002 Administrative centre Vardø Mayor (2003) Rolf Einar Mortensen (Ap) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 183 600 km² 586 km² 0. ... The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political events in Russia, which, after the elimination of the Russian autocracy system, and the Provisional Government (Duma), resulted in the establishment of the Soviet power under the control of the Bolshevik party. ...

In 1930, the Norwegian fishermen were forced into the labour collective "Poljarnaja Zvezda" (Norw.: Polarstjernen, Eng.: Polaris). The persecutions of Joseph Stalin in and after 1936 hit the small Norwegian community hard. At least 15 were shot after summary trials or starved to death in Soviet Gulag camps. Some were denounced, sentenced and executed for having talked in Norwegian. 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Polaris (α UMi / α Ursae Minoris / Alpha Ursae Minoris) is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor. ... (Russian, in full: Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Ста́лин [Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin]; December 18 [O.S. December 6] 1878[1] – March 5, 1953) was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s to his death in 1953 and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Soviet republics Area  - Total  - % water 1st before collapse 22,402,200 km² Approx. ... Gulag ( , Russian: ) is an acronym for Главное Управление Исправительно—Трудовых Лагерей и колоний, Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey i kolonii, The Chief Directorate [or Administration] of Corrective Labour Camps and Colonies of the NKVD. Anne Applebaum, in her book Gulag: A History, explains: Literally, the word GULAG is an acronym, meaning Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp...

On 23 June 1940 Lavrenty Beria of the NKVD ordered the Murmansk Oblast, encompassing the Kola Peninsula, to be cleaned of "foreign nationals": The entire Norwegian population was deported from the Kola Peninsula for resettlement in the Karelo-Finnish SSR. However, they did not remain there for long; they had to move on due to the pressures caused by the Finnish offensive into the Soviet Union in 1941. In the course of the Spring of 1942, a large proportion of the Kola Norwegians died of starvation and malnutrition. June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Lavrenty Beria Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria (Georgian: ლავრენტი ბერია; Russian: Лаврентий Павлович Берия; (29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953), Soviet politician and chief of the Soviet security and police apparatus. ... The NKVD (Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del )(Russian: НКВД, Народный комиссариат внутренних дел) or Peoples Commisariat for Internal Affairs was a government department which handled a number of the Soviet Unions affairs of state. ... Murmansk Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... Involuntary settlements in the Soviet Union took several forms. ... State motto: Kaikkien maiden proletaarit, liittykää yhteen! (Workers of all countries, unite) Image:SovietUnionKarelia. ... The Continuation War or War of Continuation (Finnish: , Swedish: ) was the war that was fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II, from the Finland-based hostile activities against the Soviet Union on June 21 and June 22[1], and Soviet bombing attacks on June 25, 1941... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ... This article is about the year. ...

In spite of having fought hard as soldiers in the Soviet Army, they were not allowed to return to their homes on the Kola after the end of the Second World War. Thus they were also deprived of any realistic chance of nurturing their cultural roots, and their Norwegian language was gradually forgotten. This article is about the armed forces of the Soviet Union. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

It was only after 1990 that many of the Kola Norwegians again dared to emphasise their background. Only a few had been able to maintain a rusty knowledge of antiquated Norwegian of the Vardø dialect. Some of them have migrated back to Norway. This article is about the year. ...

See also

• Bjarmaland
• Pomors
• Russenorsk