PECHENGA

pyĕˈchĭn-gə, Finnish Petsamo, town, NW European Russia, an ice-free port at the head of Pechenga Fjord on the Barents Sea and near the Norwegian border. It is also the northern terminus of an Arctic highway. Pechenga serves as the base for a fishing (notably herring) fleet. Located in an important nickel- and copper-mining region, the town has an ore refinery. Pechenga was known in the 16th cent. as a Muscovite foreign trading port. Ceded by Russia to Finland in 1920, it was a supply base in the German-Finnish drive on Murmansk during World War II. The town was seized by Soviet forces and transferred to the USSR in the Russo-Finnish armistice of 1944.

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Soviet Treaty Series: A Collection of Bilateral Treaties, Agreements and Conventions, Etc., Concluded between the Soviet Union and Foreign Powers - Vol. 1
Book by Leonard Shapiro; Georgetown University Press, 1950
Subjects: Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--Treaties, Treaties--Collections
...on Which the Russian State and its Nation als Shall be Entitled to Free Transit Through the Terri tory of Petsamo Pechenga 192 Oct. 28 Finland Convention Regarding the Floating of Tim ber in the Water courses Between Fin land...
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A Calendar of Soviet Treaties, 1917-1957
Book by Robert M. Slusser, Jan F. Triska; Stanford University Press, 1959
Subjects: Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--Treaties
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The New World: Problems in Political Geography
Book by Isaiah Bowman; World Book, 1928
Subjects: Boundaries, World Politics, World War, 1914-1918--Territorial Questions
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Russia's Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century: Windows on the World
Book by J. T. Kotilaine; Brill, 2005
Subjects: Russia--Commerce--History--17th Century, Russia--Foreign Economic Relations
...northwesterly coast of the Kola Peninsula: especially the Pechenga area in the ill-defined borderlands near the Norwegian fortress...Trondheim, as well as Dutch merchants, established ties with the Pechenga monastery by the 1560s (Chapter 3). The Dutch who were barred...
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Protecting the Polar Marine Environment: Law and Policy for Pollution Prevention
Book by Davor Vidas; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Marine Pollution--Law And Legislation--Polar Regions, Marine Resources Conservation--Law And Legislation--Polar Regions
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State and People in the History of Northern Norwegians and White Sea and Kola Russians
Journal article by Edward Thaden; East European Quarterly, Vol. 35, 2001
Subjects: Commercial policy--History, Fisheries--History, History, Industrial development--History, Industrialization--History, International relations--History, Norway--International relations, Norwegians--History, Russia--International relations, Russians--History, Trade policy--History, White Sea
...founded new towns and monasteries (for example, Arkhangelsk and Pechenga) on the White Sea and the Kola Peninsula. Arkhangelsk lost...developed by the Finns in the interwar years in the Petsamo/Pechenga area were added to Stalins mining empire. The Soviet authorities...
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Just Enough ("Lagom") Europeanization: The Nordic States and Europe
Journal article by Eric S. Einhorn; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 74, 2002
Subjects: Europe--International aspects, Europe--Politics and government, Europe--Social aspects, Geopolitics--Political aspects, Geopolitics--Social aspects, Globalization--Political aspects, Globalization--Social aspects, Identity--Economic aspects, Identity--Political aspects, Identity--Social aspects, International economic relations--Political aspects, International economic relations--Social aspects, International relations--Political aspects, International relations--Social aspects, Scandinavia--International aspects, Scandinavia--Political aspects, Scandinavia--Social aspects
...focus is not really the "Nordic" states but rather northeastern Europe including the Baltic region and northwestern Russia from Pechenga/Kola south through the St. Petersburg region to the Polish-Lithuanian-Belorussian borders. (3) Until the early 1990S Finland...


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magazine articles on: Pechenga  - 1 result

 
 
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Linking Libraries and Learning
Magazine article by Alida Von Krogh Cutts; Reading Today, Vol. 18, June 2001
Subjects: Books--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, International Board for Books on Young People--Achievements and awards, Khorana, Meena--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Libraries--Achievements and awards, Literacy--Study and teaching
...Childrens Reading Development Program in the Pechenga District of Russia was the winner of...Childrens Reading Development Program in Pechenga has been directed by Marina Trusova from...habit early. "All our activities in the Pechenga libraries are directed at promoting the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Pechenga  - 4 results

 
 
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Pechenga
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PECHENGA pye chin-g , Finnish Petsamo, town, NW European Russia, an ice-free port at the head of Pechenga Fjord on the Barents Sea and near the Norwegian border. It is also the northern terminus of an Arctic highway. Pechenga serves as the base for a fishing (notably herring) fleet...
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Petsamo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PETSAMO see Pechenga , Russia. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Murmansk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and nickel mines, was enlarged after World War II through the incorporation of former Finnish territories, notably Petsamo ( Pechenga ). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press...
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Finland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...confirmed; Finland was obliged to pay the USSR $300 million in reparations and to cede the Karelian Isthmus (with Vyborg), Pechenga (Petsamo) in the far north, and additional border districts in the east. The USSR was given a 50-year lease to the Porkkala...


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