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22-531: Vayenga or Vaenga may refer to: Vayenga, former name of Severomorsk , a town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia Elena Vaenga (b. 1977), Russian singer, songwriter, and actress Vayenga (Northern Dvina) , a river in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia Vayenga (Barents Sea) , a river in Murmansk Oblast, Russia Vayenga Bay , a bay in Murmansk Oblast, Russia,

44-655: A half times more than any other unit of the Soviet Navy. Seventeen naval aviation units were honored with the title of the Soviet Guards , while 241 men were awarded with the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union (including five pilots twice). To attack surface ships at long ranges, the Soviet Navy was unique in deploying large numbers of bombers in a maritime role for use by Naval Aviation. The Kiev class of Soviet aircraft carriers

66-501: A telephone line were built in Vayenga. In 1933, the bay was chosen as one of the bases for the newly created Northern Fleet. From 1934 and until the beginning of World War II , wooden and brick buildings and military facilities were built in the town, and the Vayenga-1 naval airfield was built in the neighbouring bay. From August 1941, all construction was mothballed. The airfield was used by

88-673: A well-developed infrastructure of housing and communal services, consumer services, and trade. Although the town has no higher education colleges, it hosts 9 high schools. The town is the main administrative base of the Russian Northern Fleet . Severomorsk has the largest dry dock on the Kola Peninsula . On May 13, 1984, on the outskirts of Severomorsk, there was a major fire at a stockpile of naval missiles that resulted in numerous large explosions on May 17. The incident killed 200–300 people and destroyed at least one-third of

110-459: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Severomorsk Severomorsk ( Russian : Североморск , lit.   'northern sea city'), known as Vayenga ( Ваенга ) until 18 April 1951, is a closed town in Murmansk Oblast , Russia . Severomorsk is the main administrative base of the Russian Northern Fleet . The town

132-711: Is located on the Kola Peninsula in the Arctic Circle , in the permafrost zone, on the rocky east coast of the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea . Severomorsk has a subarctic climate ( Dfc ), with long, very cold winters and cool to mild summers. The average temperature in January is -8 °C and 12 °C in July. The average precipitation is around 800 mm per year. On January 1, 2015, out of 1114 Russian cities and towns, Severomorsk

154-495: Is situated on the coast of the Barents Sea along the Kola Bay 25 kilometers (16 mi) northeast of Murmansk , the administrative centre of the oblast , to which it is connected by railway and a motorway. It is the main naval base of the Northern Fleet of Russia and the sixth largest city in the world beyond the Arctic Circle . The first settlement on the site of the current city was established between 1896 and 1897. It

176-733: The Northern Fleet 's stockpile of surface-to-air missiles . Soviet Naval Aviation The first naval aviation units in Russia were formed in 1912–1914 as a part of the Baltic Fleet and the Black Sea Fleet . During World War I , the hydroplane units were used in the Black Sea for conducting aircraft reconnaissance , bombing and firing at coastal and port installations and enemy ships, and destroying submarines and enemy aircraft on

198-741: The airfields . The regular Soviet naval aviation units were created in 1918. They participated in the Russian Civil War , cooperating with the ships and the army during the combats at Petrograd , on the Baltic Sea , the Black Sea, the Volga , the Kama River , Northern Dvina and on the Lake Onega . The newborn Soviet Naval Air Force consisted of only 76 obsolete hydroplanes. Scanty and technically imperfect, it

220-684: The Barents Sea and via the Pacific Ocean to the Sea of Okhotsk. In particular, Naval Aviation was deployed in defense of Odessa (June–October 1941), in operations in the Crimea and the Black Sea and carried out successful air strikes in the last stages of the conflict on the European and Pacific Fronts . During the war, Naval Aviation delivered an immense blow to the enemy in terms of sunken ships and crews—two and

242-570: The British; namely No. 151 Wing RAF to protect the Arctic Convoys before their fighters were later handed over to the Soviet Naval Aviation . After the war, construction was resumed. Vayenga, given the existing facilities, was chosen as the main base for the Northern Fleet. On 1 September 1947, the headquarters and command of the Northern Fleet were relocated from Polyarny to Vayenga. In

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264-883: The Voyenno-Morskoy Flot SSSR (Soviet Navy) in the theaters of operations in the Barents , Baltic and Black Seas and also to the Soviet Naval Detachment in the Sea of Okhotsk . Russian Navy Aviation managed all land, shore and vessel-based (tender seaplanes and catapult vessels) hydroplanes and aircraft, as well as flying boats . The air units also conducted land operations in support of the Red Army during landings and disembarkations and served in special wartime operations. Naval Aviation provided some air cover to Allied convoys bringing equipment to Soviet forces from North Sea to

286-602: The city had a bakery, a sausage factory, and a soft drink bottling plant, and a swimming pool was built. On 26 November 1996, by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation , the town of Severomorsk, as a major naval base, was transformed into a closed administrative-territorial entity (ZATO) (urban district) with the inclusion of the following populated areas under its jurisdiction: Safonovo , Roslyakovo , Safonovo-1 , Severomorsk-3 , and Shchukozero . Severomorsk

308-521: The executive branch has been headed by Vitaly Voloshin. In the spring of 2011, he was approved to the post of the Head of Administration of Severomorsk. Since 16 April 2013, the position is occupied by Irina Norina. Within the framework of administrative divisions , it is, together with the urban-type settlement of Safonovo and two rural localities , incorporated as the closed administrative-territorial formation of Severomorsk —an administrative unit with

330-570: The main components of the Soviet Navy. By this time, the Soviets had created formations and units of the torpedo and bomb aviation. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War , all of the fleets (except for the Pacific Fleet) had a total of 1,445 aircraft. The Morskaya Aviatsiya (Naval Aviation) was the Soviet Navy's air service during World War II . Such air units provided air support to

352-725: The mouth of the Vayenga River Vaenga, a tapere (sub-district) of Matavera , the island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Vayenga . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vayenga&oldid=960011818 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

374-454: The same year, the first secondary school in the city was opened. The population of Vayenga was 3,884 people. In 1948, Vayenga's village Council of Workers' Deputies was formed. On April 18, 1951, Vayenga received town status and was renamed to Severomorsk , from the Russian "sever" (север), meaning "north", and "more" (море), meaning "sea". By the 1960s, the town was already thoroughly developed -

396-550: The status equal to that of the districts . As a municipal division , the closed administrative-territorial formation of Severomorsk is incorporated as Severomorsk Urban Okrug . Most of Severomorsk's industry is related to food, particularly the Severmorsk Dairy Plant and the Toni Bottling Plant. There is also a bread/bakery factory and a meat plant. The town also has construction and ship repair enterprises, and

418-700: Was deployed in the late 1970s and carried up to 30 aircraft including Yak-38 VTOL fighters . The next class of Soviet aircraft carriers, named the Admiral Kuznetsov class , supported more conventional aircraft such as the Su-33 "Flanker-D" and the MiG-29 "Fulcrum" . Land-based aircraft such as the Tupolev Tu-16 "Badger" and Tu-22M "Backfire" bombers were deployed with high-speed anti-ship missiles . Previously believed to be interceptors of NATO supply convoys traveling

440-615: Was mostly used for resupplying the ships and the army. In the second half of the 1920s, the Naval Aviation order of battle began to grow. It received new reconnaissance hydroplanes, bombers , and fighters . In the mid-1930s, the Soviets created the Naval Air Force in the Baltic Fleet , the Black Sea Fleet and the Soviet Pacific Fleet . The importance of naval aviation had grown significantly by 1938–1940, to become one of

462-507: Was named Vayenga ( Ваенга ), after the river , the name of which itself comes from the Sami "vayongg", meaning a female reindeer . The settlers were engaged in hunting, fishing and cattle breeding. In 1917, only thirteen people lived in the settlement. In 1926, a timber procurement office was founded in Murmansk, one of the teams of which was sent to Vayenga. A barrack-dormitory, a bathhouse, and

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484-535: Was ranked the 329th most populous. According to the results of the Russian Census of 2010 , the population of Severomorsk was 50,060. 26,503 (52.9%) of those were male, and 23,557 (47.1%) were female. As of 2016, the population of Severomorsk has reached 50,905. The representative bodies of the local self-government are the City Council of Deputies. The mayor of Severomorsk is Alexander Abramov. Since 1991,

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