Murman Coast

American  

[moor-mahn] / mʊərˈmɑn /

noun

1. an Arctic coastal region in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Kola Peninsula.

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Murman Coast British  

/ ˈmʊəmən /

noun

1. a coastal region of NW Russia, in the north of the Kola Peninsula within the Arctic Circle, but ice-free

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Example Sentences

On July 7, 1918, it was reported that the people of the Murman Coast had risen against the Soviet Government, declared themselves independent, and appealed to the Allies for protection.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various

Recently they set off together from Kola on the Murman Coast to try to find a village from which jolly little Laplanders and Laplanderesses come sliding and skidding to market behind their stout-hearted reindeer.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 by Various

The protest which followed was therefore compelled by German pressure, which was applied so strongly that the Soviet Government made a show of mobilizing a special army for transportation to the Murman Coast.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various

According to one dispatch General Gurko, one of the chief commanders of the Russian troops in the days before the revolution, had been placed in command of the Murman Coast army.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various

July 15-18 Anglo-American forces occupy strategic positions on the Murman Coast in northwestern Russia.

From A School History of the Great War by Gerson, Armand Jacques