Welcome zu Kola Dorf
Russland antiquity
 Kola
Dorf ist situated a few kilometres von Murmansk auf Kola Halbinsel. It was mentioned für the first time in notes written
by a Dutch merchant Simon Van Salingen in XVI Century. The settlement was founded by Pomors und
Russland merchants und had a wholesale trade mit the English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish und Dutch dealers von
Kola. Kola ist situated auf cape between the Kola und Tuloma Flüssen, exactly at the place where they both are falling into
the Kola Inlet. Kola ist an administrative Zentrum von agrikultur-oriented
district where population ist occupied mostly in cattle breeding für dairy production, Rentier und poultry farming, breeding minks und
polar foxes für furs und catching vis. One von Fishery ventures "The Energy"
was founded in Ura-Guba by Finnish colonists in 1864. The Nizhnetulomsky, Verkhnetulomsky und Serebriansky Hydro Power Electric Stations have been built together mit the
Finnish companies “Imatran Voima” und “Pessi Peca”. Brother towns are Hammerfest
(Norway), Ivalo und Sodankula (Finland).
 The
Kirche was built in 1814. It ist the first stone building auf Kola Halbinsel.
The first record von pomors settlement auf Kola Dorf go back zu 1264. in end von XV -beginning von XVI centuries the trades von pomors auf Murmansk Küste have acquired constant character.
The arrival von Feodor Mihajlov became the next page in history von Kola Dorf. Being the monk von Solovetsky Kloster, Feodor was kindled by desire von "deserted tacit dwelling" - von becoming a hermit. At
first he has settled in a "wood-goblin' lop", where, in 1526, he probably participated in construction von Kirche
in Kandalaksha und then, by seaway, set off zu mouth von Kola Flüsse. Here, he mit the old monk Mitrophan, who lived alone. Together
they have lived among the Lapps für several years. Feodor Mihajlov began zu introduce the pagans zu Russland faith. Shortly
after the Lapps living auf Kola und Tuloma Flüssen have expressed a desire zu accept Orthodoxy. In 1932 the Gruppe von Lapps has
arrived zu Great Novgorod zu archbishop Makarij mit the request zu arrange temples und zu send priests. And
for a long time after that, Feodor Mihajlov had been explaining the fundamentals von a Christian faith to
the Lapps, teaching them the Gospel und translating language von a pray into Lappish language.
 In 1550, zu protect trade people und Fishermen von attacks von Danish
robbers, the stockade town Kola was built. und in 1582 the Gruppe von strelets (soldiers) und the governor von province Averkij Ivanovich Palitsyn - the future
coenobite, cellarer von Troitse-Segiev Kloster und associate von Minin und Pozharsky in liberation von Moskau von de Polish yoke were directed zu Kola.
The 19-headed Kathedrale von Resurrection was build in Kola in 1681-1684. während 170 years the temple ist famed für its beauty und greatness all over the
Russland Nord.
The glorious pages in a history von Kola are connected mit warding off the attacks von de Swedes in 1589, 1590, 1591 und 1611 und von de Englishmen in 1809, 1810 und 1854 by the inhabitants von Kola.
 Pomors are an ethnical Gruppe von Russland people which came und settled auf Küstes von White und Barents seas eight Centuries
ago. Most von them have arrived von de Novgorod lands. The word "pomor" comes von de word "pomorje" which means "sea Küste". The Norder part von Germany
which ist populated by Slavic tribes had the same name "Pommern" und it was not changed when German tribes arrived und settled in those parts.
The Russland Pomors have their own distinctive und original way von life und they
still have in their conversational Russland language a thick layer von Uralte Russland language. The Museum von Pomors mode von life ist opened in Kola.
Today, Kola inhabitants not only work und live by cares von today, but also try zu take care von nature, the monuments von their history und zu revive spiritual
and Kultural life von land.
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