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Oktyabrsky District, Murmansk — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Five Corners square and the whole run of Prospekt Lenina sit inside Oktyabrsky District, the one okrug of Murmansk that never reaches Kola Bay.
About Oktyabrsky District
Where to stay in Oktyabrsky District
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Oktyabrsky District is the central okrug of Murmansk, and almost everything a visitor walks to stands on or just off Prospekt Lenina. The Arktika rises at Prospekt Lenina 82 on Five Corners square, an 18-storey block that is the tallest building in the city. It was finished in 1984.
Take a room on the avenue if you want the Murmansk Regional Museum of Art on ulitsa Kominterna a few minutes off, or the upland microdistricts of Novoye Plato and Gvardeysky if you would rather not sleep on the main street. The Murmansk railway station lies just outside the okrug.
About Oktyabrsky District
What are the main landmarks in Oktyabrsky District?
The Murmansk Regional Museum of Art fills one of the oldest stone buildings in Murmansk, a consumer-society store on ulitsa Kominterna raised in four months in 1927. The glass dome never came back. Ploshchad Pervouchiteley carries the Monument to Cyril and Methodius, a bronze cast Bulgaria gave Murmansk in 1990, and the Monument to the builders who died in 1941-1945 went up on ulitsa Profsoyuzov in October 1974.
Two listed school buildings sit east of the avenue: School No. 1 on ulitsa Kapitana Burkova and the Murmansk Polytechnic Lyceum on ulitsa Papanina.
What is the history of Oktyabrsky District?
Oktyabrsky District began as Mikoyanovsky District on 20 April 1939, when Murmansk was cut into three: Kirovsky, Leninsky, and Mikoyanovsky. That name lasted eighteen years. It gave way to Oktyabrsky on 30 October 1957, for the October Revolution, and the districts themselves were abolished twice in between, from 1948 to 1951 and again from 1958 to 1967.
In 1975 the southern ground went to form Pervomaysky District, and in 1995 what remained became an administrative okrug.
Where is Oktyabrsky District?
Oktyabrsky District holds the central part of Murmansk, inland of Kola Bay between Leninsky okrug to the north and Pervomaysky okrug to the south.
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Updated September 2026