Murmansk (Russian: ะััะผะฐะฝัะบ; Kildin Sami: ะััะผะฐะฝ ะปะฐะฝะฝา; Skolt Sami: Muurman and Northern Sami: Murmánska) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia. It sits on both slopes and banks of a modest ria or fjord, Kola Bay, an estuarine inlet of the Barents Sea, with its bulk on the east bank o...