Mining in the Soviet Arctic

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Armstrong, Terence
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1960
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Murmanskaya Oblast’; Murmanskaya; permafrost; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400050555; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400050555

The major economic benefit which the U.S.S.R. derives from its Arctic territory comes from the exploitation of mineral resources. Detailed information about production has long been withheld, at least in the case of important minerals, but enough general information is available to permit a summary in broad terms of current activity in this field. Murmanskaya Oblast' is not included in the summary, because its relatively mild climate, near absence of permafrost, and favourable location render it atypical of the Soviet Arctic as a whole.