Webcam Polarnye Zori. Builders Square (Murmansk region).
Polyarnye Zori is a small town in the Murmansk region, located on the banks of the river Niva, 224 kilometers south of the regional center.
The area of the settlement is 3.6 square kilometers.
In 1968 a settlement for the builders of Kola Nuclear Power Plant was founded on the site of the present town.
At the end of 1973 by decision of the Murmansk Regional Executive Committee the settlement was transformed into a workers' town.
In the 1970s in the village were built House of Culture, a two-cell bridge with a regulating device, a shopping center, a post office, a cultural and sports complex, apartment buildings.
In 1980 a new telephone exchange for 1000 numbers was put into operation in the city.
In April 1991, by the decree of the authorities the workers' settlement Polarnye Zori received the status of a city.
In 2000, the construction of the Ice Palace for 600 spectators started in the town.
Industrial enterprises: JSC Atomenergoremont, JSC Energospetsmontazh, Kola NPP, Niva HPP-1.
Lomonosov Street is the longest and most densely populated street in the city. It divides Polarny Zori into two parts and intersects with Nivsky Avenue, Pushkin Street, Stroiteley Street, and Partizan Zapolyarya Street. The first house in the New Town, commissioned by the builders, was house #4 on Lomonosov St., which became the builders' dormitory.
Most of the specialists who came to the North wished to do something important with their lives, they had a deep sense of patriotism.
