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Kolvitsa

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Country
  
Russia

Population (2010 Census)
  
9 inhabitants

Postal code(s)
  
184015

Federal subject
  
Murmansk Oblast

Time zone
  
MSK (UTC+03:00)

Kolvitsa

Administrative district
  
Kandalakshskiy District

Kolvitsa (Russian: Ко́лвица) is a village (selo) in the administrative jurisdiction of the town of Kandalaksha in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. The village is located beyond the Arctic circle, on the Kolvitsa River near its confluence with Kolvitskaya Bay of Kandalaksha Gulf, White Sea.

Map of Kolvitsa, Murmansk Oblast, Russia, 184015

Municipally, the village is a part of Kandalaksha Urban Settlement in Kandalaksha Municipal District.

Postal code: 184015.

The first written mention of Kolvitsa dates back to 1563, when Mitrofan Kukin, a resident of Kandalaksha, donated his lands (including Kolvitsa) to Kandalaksha Monastery.

References

Kolvitsa Wikipedia