Murmansk is a young, strong and very unusual city with a huge potential for stable development in the near future. This largest metropolis in the Arctic Circle with a population of just under three hundred thousand people is located on the shore of the ice-free Kola Bay. Here begins the great Northern Sea Route, which makes the city the most powerful northern port in Europe, not only for trade, but also for fishing. It is here that the gateway to the Arctic opens, to its almost inexhaustible mineral and biological resources.