Apatity

Apatity is a town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. The passing loop of Bely on the Leningrad-Murmansk Railway turned into built in 1926 and the agreement of Apatity changed into based in 1930. It was categorized as an city locality by way of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Resolution of August 20, 1935, while the agreement of pri sovkhoze "Industriya" became merged into Apatity and it turned into granted work agreement popularity. Many of the early settlers within the Apatity place have been former "rich peasants" from several regions of Northwestern Russia, resettled to Murmansk Oblast as a part of Stalin's Dekulakization application. Members of certain ethnic minorities had been deported to Apatity as well.

On January 6, 1966, the Murmansk Oblast Executive Committee petitioned to transform the work agreement of Molodyozhny in jurisdiction of Kirovsk right into a town beneath oblast jurisdiction known as Khibinogorsk and on subordinating part of the place in Kirovsk's jurisdiction to it. The petition was reviewed by using the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR, which, but, decreed on July 7, 1966 to merge the work settlements of Molodyozhny and Apatity into a city under oblast jurisdiction, which might maintain the call Apatity. Consequently, the Murmansk Oblast Executive Committee subordinated part of the territory in Kirovsk's jurisdiction to the brand new city via the decision of October 13, 1966.