Alakurtti (russian: Алакуртти) is a
rural locality
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(a ''
selo'') in
Kandalakshsky District
Kandalakshsky District (russian: Кандала́кшский райо́н) is an administrative district (a raion), one of the six in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.Law #96-01-ZMO As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Kandalakshsky Municipal D ...
of
Murmansk Oblast,
Russia
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,
located north of the
Arctic Circle at an altitude of
above sea level. Its population at the
2010 Census was 3,424.
Before 1953 it was part of Finland and
Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic
The Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (Karelo-Finnish SSR; fi, ; rus, Каре́ло-Фи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, r=Karelo-Finskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Resp ...
.
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Rural localities in Murmansk Oblast
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