Five Corners, Murmansk Explained

68.9708°N 33.075°WFive Corners Square (ru|Площадь Пять Углов; tr. Ploshchad' Pyat' Uglov) is the main square of Murmansk, Russia. From 1977 until December 1990 it was formally named "Soviet Constitution Square",^[1] but this name never entered wide popular use.

The following buildings are located on the square:

• the Murmansk Regional Duma building (this building formerly housed the Sevryba Management Software company)
• the General Post Office
• the Kirov Cultural and Technology Center
• the Azimut Hotel Murmansk (formerly the Arctic)
• the Meridian Hotel
• Volna ("Wave"), a supermarket

Until the mid-1980s, there were many two-story wooden houses around the square. The last of these were demolished after the construction of the Hotel Arctic.

Notes and References

1. Book: Kiselev . A. . Tulin . M. A. . Улицы Мурманска . Streets of Murmansk . 1991 . Murmansk Publishing House . Murmansk . 5-85510-116-9 . 2 (Layers of Years) . 2 (Пласты лет).