Kola Peninsula
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Most of Russia’s fleet of nuclear submarines and icebreakers is located on the Arctic Kola Peninsula.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
The area through which Tara Polar Station will transit is near the Kola Peninsula, home to Russia's Northern Fleet, which includes submarines capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025
The Nordic country borders the Kola Peninsula, home to most of Russia's nuclear weapons as well as its Northern Fleet, which operates Russia's nuclear submarines.
From Reuters • Sep. 16, 2023
A traditionally seminomadic people who number around 80,000, the Sámi are scattered across roughly 150,000 square miles across the northern parts of Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Kola Peninsula, in Russia.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2022
They chose a spot on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, near the Finnish border, and set to work with the hope of drilling to a depth of fifteen kilometers.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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