Kola Peninsula
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It is this zone Russia's Northern Fleet missile-launching submarines based on the Kola Peninsula must cross to disappear into the deep waters of the Atlantic.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
Russia is militarily dominant there, with nuclear-submarine forces, missile bases, airfields and ports on the Kola Peninsula.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 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
An Indigenous people, the Sámi, who number around 80,000, inhabit a vast territory that stretches across the Arctic areas of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia’s Kola Peninsula.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2023
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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