Poyakonda

Poyakonda (Russian: Пояконда) is the rural locality (an inhabited locality) in Kandalakshsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located beyond the Arctic Circle at a height of 6 meters (20 ft) above sea level.

Poyakonda Пояконда
Inhabited locality[1]
Landscape of Poyakonda
Location of Poyakonda
Poyakonda Location of Poyakonda Poyakonda Poyakonda (Murmansk Oblast)
Coordinates: 66°35′38″N 32°48′56″E
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Murmansk Oblast[1]
Administrative district	Kandalakshsky District[1]
Population  (2010 Census)[2]
• Total	78
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK [3])
Postal code(s)[4]	184040
Dialing code(s)	+7 81533[5]
OKTMO ID	47608158116

On November 17, 1987, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR decreed to transfer the settlement of the railway station of Poyakonda from Tedinsky Selsoviet of Loukhsky District of the Karelian ASSR to Murmansk Oblast.[6] By the Decision of the Murmansk Oblast Executive Committee of January 20, 1988, the settlement was merged with the inhabited locality of Poyakonda on the territory in jurisdiction of the town of Kandalaksha.[6] The transfer marked the only time the external borders of Murmansk Oblast changed between 1947 and present.

As February 2018, the hamlet had 50 residents, most working at the White Sea Biological Station bioscience research facility run by the Moscow State University on the White Sea coast. In December 2017, Russian Railways removed the railway station from their Murmansk-St. Petersburg service. Services were resumed when it was realised a 14 year old girl relied on the service to travel to school, which came to international attention.[7][8][9]

References

Notes

1. OKATO, Part 2. Code 47 408 558
2. Статистический сборник Численность, размещение и возрастно-половой состав населения Мурманской области. Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения. Том 1. 2012 Archived December 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine / Федеральная служба государственной статистики, Территориальный орган Федеральной службы государственной статистики по Мурманской области. Мурманск, 2012 — 75 с.
3. "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
4. Russian Post. Эталонный справочник индексов объектов почтовой связи Archived January 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
5. Народная энциклопедия городов и регионов России «Мой Город» (in Russian)
6. Administrative-Territorial Division of Murmansk Oblast, p. 58
7. Shevchenko, Vitaly; Allen, Kerry (February 9, 2018). "Train introduces stop for single schoolgirl". BBC News. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
8. "Train goes the extra mile for lone Russian schoolgirl at remote station". TASS. February 9, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
9. "14-Jährige bekommt ihren eigenen Zug-Stopp". 20 Minuten (in German). February 12, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2018.

Sources

• Архивный отдел Администрации Мурманской области. Государственный Архив Мурманской области. (1995). Административно-территориальное деление Мурманской области (1920–1993 гг.). Справочник. Мурманск: Мурманское издательско-полиграфическое предприятие "Север".

External links

• Kandalaksha.su. Poyakonda