Khibiny, Murmansk Oblast Explained

En Name:Khibiny
Ru Name:Хибины
Map Label Position:right
Coordinates:67.6756°N 33.2103°W
Federal Subject:Murmansk Oblast
Federal Subject Ref:[1]
Adm District Jur:Apatity
Inhabloc Cat:Rural locality
Inhabloc Type:Station
Pop 2010Census:0
Pop 2010Census Ref:[2]
Established Title:Founded
Postal Codes:184209
Postal Codes Ref:[3]
Dialing Codes:81555
Dialing Codes Ref:[4]

Khibiny (Russian: Хибины), also known as Khibino (Russian: Хибино),[5] is the rural locality (a Station) in Apatity municipality of Murmansk Oblast, Russia. The village is located beyond the Arctic Circle, on the Kola Peninsula. It is 142 m above sea level.

Khibino served as the administrative center of Yekostrovsky Selsoviet of Kolsko-Loparskaya Volost of Alexandrovsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate in the Russian SFSR, when the selsoviet's administrative center was moved here from Polovinka by the Resolution of Kolsko-Loparskaya Volost Executive Committee of December 9, 1924.

As of the 2010 census, Khibino is uninhabited.

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Notes and References

  1. [OKATO]
  2. Статистический сборник Численность, размещение и возрастно-половой состав населения Мурманской области. Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения. Том 1. 2012 / Федеральная служба государственной статистики, Территориальный орган Федеральной службы государственной статистики по Мурманской области. Мурманск, 2012 — 75 с.
  3. [Russian Post]
  4. http://www.mojgorod.ru/murmansk_obl/ Народная энциклопедия городов и регионов России «Мой Город»
  5. Administrative-Territorial Division of Murmansk Oblast, pp. 68–69