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Kola Peninsula

British  
/ ˈkəʊlə /

noun

  1. a peninsula in NW Russia, between the Barents and White Seas: forms most of the Murmansk region. Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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 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

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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