Nickel (Murmansk region)

The village is located on the left bank of the Kolosyoki River, east of Lake Kuetsyarvi , 123 kilometers north-west of Murmansk ^[3] . The nearest settlements are Salmijärvi (4 km) and Zapolyarny (23 km) ^[3] .

The construction of Nickel was begun in 1935 , when this territory belonged to Finland . The settlement is obliged by its name to the same-named element of the periodic table . The plant was founded in the 1930s by the Finnish company Petsamon Nikkeli.

During World War II , the plant’s production facilities were virtually destroyed.

Immediately after the inclusion of the region into the Murmansk region in 1944, the restoration of production began, the first smelting was given in 1946 . Today, the Pechenganickel mining and smelting plant produces Feinstein , an enriched copper-nickel ore.

The status of the working village was assigned by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of November 27, 1945 .

The population living in the settlement, according to the All-Russian population census of 2010 is 12,756 people, of whom 6,036 men (47.3%) and 6,720 women (52.7%) ^{[18] [19]} .

The main enterprise is Pechenganikel Mining and Metallurgical Plant, which is part of the Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company of the Norilsk Nickel concern, which employs about 2.2 thousand people.

Also in the village there is a branch of CJSC “SMNU Tsvetmetnaladka”, which provides services for installation, repair and maintenance of other general equipment, a territorially-separate division of KolaAtomEnergoSbyt OJSC for energy distribution, a fuel oil boiler house, a city hospital, 3 branches of Sberbank and 1 branch of Rosbank , chain stores, pharmacies, as well as other firms and enterprises.

According to the territorial body of state statistics of the Murmansk region, the main industries of the municipal entity, the city settlement Nickel, are non-ferrous metallurgy, electric power industry, there are also enterprises of the food (including fish) industry, the building materials industry. Industries in Nikel are also rail and road transport.

Trading networks

In the village there are trade enterprises of regional trade networks - SotElit, TekhnoTsentr Sever, Evroros, Yablochko and 7 days, Drugstore for Lean and Formula Health, federal retail chains: Magnit, “Rainbow Smile”, “Dixie”, “Pyaterochka”, “Fix Price”.

There are 143 residential buildings in Nikel different heights, which were built before the war (in the Finnish period), in Soviet times and after the collapse of the USSR. The total living area of ​​the city is about 354,000 m² . At the beginning of 2014 in Nikel 6 large nine-story building (microdistrict), 65 five-story building, 18 four-story building, 14 three-story building, 37 two-story building, 3 single-story buildings .

Transportation

In the village developed bus and taxi service. The journey to the PechengaNickel Metallurgical Plant is carried out by the bus route number 7. The main highway connecting the village with other settlements of Russia is 1.2 km from the center of the village.

For suburban communication, buses and a fixed-route taxi with the routes Nikel - Murmansk and Nikel - Zapolyarny are used .

For the commuter traffic, the Nickel - Murmansk train was used (in the summer, the direct Nickel -Moscow train went), there is a railway station in the village, which is the initial and final station of the Oktyabrskaya Cola-Nickel railway .

The nearest airport is located 50 kilometers in the Norwegian city of Kirkenes ( Høybuktmoen ), the nearest Russian airport - Murmansk is 200 km away.

Communication

There are 4 mobile operators operating in Nikel: Megafon , MTS , Beeline and Tele2 (MegaFon has a virtual operator Yota , and Tele2 is planning to launch MVNO Rostelecom ). All operators provide services in the standards of GPRS and 3G ( WCDMA / HSPA ), 4G networks ( LTE ) has a "Megaphone". Previously, SkyLink provided services in the CDMA2000 standard , but now the services of this company are not available in the Pechenga district. MVNO operators support the same technologies as the operators on which they are based.

The main provider of wired communication is Rostelecom , using ADSL and PON technologies provides broadband access services, IPTV and telephony.

A fiber optic cable from Rostelecom and Megafon has been laid to the village.

The Internet in the village is provided by 3 providers: Rostelecom, Megafon (using Metro ethernet technology), and SkyNET private local area network. As of 2016, fixed broadband services from Megafon provider are provided only in 3 houses in the military camp.

Until 1994, 11 kindergartens worked in Nikel - for 2,000 children. In the late 90s. There is a tendency to reduce pre-school institutions: 8 kindergartens were closed. The reason was the low birth rate and the outflow of the city’s population to other regions of the country in the early 1990s and, as a result, a small number of pre-school children. Until the beginning of 2012, there were only 3 kindergartens in Nikel.

However, in recent years an increase in fertility has been observed in Nikel. This led to the fact that formed the queue, which amounted to more than 200 children. The administration decided to restore the former kindergarten number 12 with 140 places. In 2010, a major overhaul project for the building was developed, in 2011, the kindergarten was repaired, put into operation on January 17, 2012. The money for the reconstruction - more than 30 million rubles - is the total contribution of the budgets of the municipality, the region and the city-forming enterprise - the Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company . Repair done in just a year (a little more than 10 months). The speed and quality of work was also influenced by the fact that the city-forming enterprise, Kola MMC , had a great help to the municipality in the reconstruction of the kindergarten.

Until July 2011, there were 4 secondary schools in Nikel - № 1, № 2, № 3 and № 20 (for 3,700 places). In 2011, there was a tendency to reduce educational institutions: in July 2011, School No. 2 was closed. The reason was the low birth rate and the outflow of the city’s population to other regions of the country in the early 1990s and, as a result, a small number of students. Back in the late 1980s, all Nickel schools worked in two shifts, but now schools work in one shift. All grades 10-11 are now continuing their education on the basis of School No. 3 (“Resource Center”). Schools No. 1 and No. 20 continued to work in the status of main secondary schools (incomplete secondary).

At the beginning of the 2012 school year, there are 7 educational institutions operating in Nikel, including: 4 pre-school institutions and 3 general education institutions . Also in Nikel there is a music school, an art school, a sports school, an interscholastic training complex, the House of Children's Art, an Interscholastic Training and Production Complex (formerly UPC ) and the Pechenga Polytechnic College.

Print

• Weekly newspaper "Pechenga" (published since 1946 )
• Newspaper "Vesti Nickel".
• Newspaper "Active Nickel".

Television

Regional Channels

• TV-21 - broadcasts in partnership with STS
• GTRK Murman - broadcasts in partnership with Russia-1.

All-Russia channels that are publicly available

• First channel
• Russia 1
• Russia 2
• Russia K (Culture) / Euronews
• NTV
• Channel Five
• STS
• TV Center
• TNT
• Pepper
• MTV Russia
• Disney Channel
• Star

Local TV

• Channel "duty on Pechenga".
• TV channel "Pechenga-TV".

Broadcasting

• Beacon - 1,449 MHz.
• Radio norge
• P4
• NRK P1

Palace of Culture "Sunrise" for 450 seats, 3 libraries: "Central District Library", branch number 9 in the building of recreation center "Sunrise" and "Children's Central Library".

The village has a sports complex "Metallurg" (overhauled), ski slopes on the most northern ski slope in Russia, the 25th swimming pool with six lanes, entertainment centers, cafes and restaurants. The hotel "Northern Lights" operates. There is also a zoo in Nikel - the northernmost zoo in the world ^{[20] [21]} , a local history museum and monuments.

•   Kirkenes , Norway ^[22]

In 1993 , as part of their tour of Scandinavia , the American cycobilly group Reverend Horton Heat performed at the Voskhod Festival of Jazz Music.

In 2009, the British indie rock band White Lies filmed a video for the song “Farewell to the Fairground” in Nikel ^[23] .

In 2015 , in honor of the 70th anniversary of the Pechenga district in Nikel, two memorial signs were opened: “Muotkavaara” - an exact copy of the border sign installed at the junction of the borders of Russia , Norway and Finland ; "Geographical center of Pechenga district " 10 kilometers from Nickel.

In Nikel, the action of the movie “ Men! .. ” ends. The film itself was shot in Monchegorsk .

The village of Nickel is mentioned in the final part of Ketil Bjørnstad’s trilogy “The Lady from the Valley”. The main character Axel Vinding, while in the village of Svanvik (Norway), sees the pipes of the mining and smelting complex: “In this valley we are trapped between Finland and Russia,” says Sigrun. - We have the largest virgin pine forest in Norway. Paradise place. But do you see these tall pipes beyond the hill in the east? This is Nickel. City of miners. Life expectancy there is very short. Residents are poor even by Soviet standards. - Why is there a short life expectancy? - Due to respiratory tract infection. And it comes from emissions from all the factories and plants that work in the city. Look at the smoke that comes from these pipes. There is a large factory in the suburbs. "Norilsk Nickel".

• Nickel administration website