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	Pechenga, Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Petsamo is located at the Barents Sea coast between Russia in the east, Norway in the west and Finland to the south.
		In the Treaty of Tartu, 1920, Bolshevist Russia ceded Petsamo to Finland.
		Petsamo was ceded to the Soviet Union as part of the Paris Peace Treaty of 1946.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Petsamo (385 words)

	Petsamo - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The area of Petsamo (Pechenga in Russian) in northern Lapland, indigenously inhabited by Samis, came to Finland in 1920 and to the Soviet Union in 1944.
		After that Petsamo became a popular tourist attraction as it was the only port at the Barents Sea that could be reached by an automobile.
		Petsamo was ceded to the Soviet Union according to the Paris Peace Treaty.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Petsamo (301 words)

	Petsamo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The harbor Liinahamari in Petsamo was important for the Finnish economy during the First World War as the Baltic Sea was blocked by the Germans.
		Deposits of Nickel were found after Petsamo became a part of Finland, and in 1934 it was estimated that the deposits contained over five million tons of Nickel.
		After that Petsamo became a popular tourist attraction as it was the only port at the Barents Sea that could be reached by automobile.
	www.theezine.net /p/petsamo.html (251 words)

	Read about Petsamo at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Petsamo and learn about Petsamo here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The harbour Liinahamari in Petsamo was important for the Finnish economy during the
		1921, after Petsamo became a part of Finland, and in 1934 it was estimated that the deposits contained over five million tonnes of Nickel.
		Petsamo was ceded to the Soviet Union according to the
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Petsamo (213 words)

	REGIONS & EDUCATION: Nature's blessing - Petsamo's curse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Petsamo differs from the rest of Russia also in another important respect: the workers there have actually been receiving their wages.
		Finland acquired Petsamo under the terms of a peace treaty signed with the Soviet Union in the Estonian city of Tartu (Dorpat) in 1920.
		Petsamo was an important asset for Finland, because its port remained ice-free all year round.
	www.publiscan.fi /sc15e-9.htm (681 words)

	Siida - Sää'mjie'llem - History
		The Petsamo area, which became part of Finland in connection with the Peace of Tartu, was the homeland of the Suonjel, Paatsjoki and Petsamo Sámi.
		As regards the Sámi living in the village of Petsamo, the Finnish evacuation authorities were, however, too late, and the inhabitants of this community were evacuated to the Soviet Union, to central Kola Peninsula.
		In the end, the Sámi of the Petsamo village settled permanently in the Nellim area, the Sámi of the Paatsjoki village in Keväjärvi and the Sámi of the Suonjel, or Suonikylä, village in the Sevettijärvi-Näätämö area.
	www.siida.fi /saamjiellem/english/historia.html (775 words)

	Continuation War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The negotiations about Petsamo nickel mining rights had dragged on for six months when the Soviet Foreign Ministry announced January 14 that the negotiations had to be concluded quickly.
		The Petsamo crisis had disillusioned Finnish politicians, especially Ryti and Mannerheim, creating the impression that peaceful co-existence with the Soviet Union was impossible, and that Finland would survive in peace only if the Soviet Union was defeated, as Ryti presented it to US ambassador Arthur Schoenfeld on April 28.
		The arrival of German troops participating in Operation Barbarossa began on June 7 in Petsamo, where SS Division Nord started southwards, and on June 8 in the ports of the Gulf of Bothnia where the German 169th Infantry Division was transported by rail to Rovaniemi, where both of these turned eastward on June 18.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Continuation_War (11617 words)

	wiki/Petsamo Definition / wiki/Petsamo Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After that Petsamo became a popular tourist attraction as it was the only port at the Barents SeaThe Barents Sea is a part of the Arctic Ocean located north of Norway and Russia.
		In 1941, during the Continuation War, Petsamo was used by Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator....
		Petsamo was ceded to the Soviet Union according to the Paris Peace TreatyThe Paris Peace Conference (July 29 to October 15, 1946) resulted in the Paris peace treaties signed on February 10, 1947.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Petsamo (1401 words)

	Petsamo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mining operations started in 1935 by (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian and (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French corporations.
		After that Petsamo became a popular tourist attraction as it was the only port at the (The part of the Arctic Ocean north of Norway and Russia) Barents Sea that could be reached by an automobile.
		Petsamo was ceded to the Soviet Union according to the (Click link for more info and facts about Paris Peace Treaty) Paris Peace Treaty.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pe/Petsamo.htm (420 words)

	ProKarelia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		To begin with, Petsamo was its own administrative province within Finland, subject to martial law, but the provincial administration was abolished as early as 1921.
		Petsamo rapidly became one of the foremost tourist attractions in Finland.
		The road to Petsamo was marketed as the only road in Finland leading to the Arctic Ocean, and attracted over 20 000 tourists a year.
	www.prokarelia.net /en/reform/print.php?x=5-53 (605 words)

	Siida - Sää'mjie'llem - The memory of St. Triphon of Petsamo
		Triphon of Petsamo was born into a priest's family in the town of Torzhek in the region of Novgorod in 1495.
		In addition to the official recognition, the Czar granted the monastery of Petsamo a deed of donation - dated November 1st 1556 - through which the monastery received large land areas and the fishing rights to the waters in these areas.
		After this, it took hundreds of years for the monastery of Petsamo to flourish again: this happened as late as the 1880s.
	www.siida.fi /saamjiellem/english/trifonpetsamolainen.html (379 words)

	Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation AAR
		A number of rivers and streams are flowing in south-north direction, the rivers Titovka, Petsamo, and Pasvik being the most important ones that require major river-crossing equipment to go across.
		On the coast the 63rd Naval Brigade is approaching Petsamo town from the north.
		The northern route would be shorter to Kirkenes, but on the other hand the enemy at Petsamo could withdraw and defend it faster than it could reach the southern road.
	www.tdg.nu /articles/AARs/Petsamo.html (2378 words)

	Framework 1/2004
		When the former Russian territory of Petsamo was in the 1920 Treaty of Tartu annexed to Finland, measures were launched to integrate the entire Lapland region to the realm economically, administratively as well as culturally.
		The idea that the Sámi did not own their lands became the core concept in an extensive literature on the history of settlement and rights in the 1920s and 1930s, and remained in place as doctrine—against the views of the Sámi themselves—until the 1980s.
		In the time of Petsamo, the theme of sin appeared in depictions of immorality, a common conception of the Sámi as incorrigible reindeer rustlers.
	www.framework.fi /1_2004/focus/artikkelit/lehtola.html (1644 words)

	Siida - Sää'mjie'llem - Religion
		At the time, the Skolt Sámi and the Karelians of Petsamo that had been evacuated from the Petsamo region - ceded to the Soviet Union after the war - were settled in the municipality of Inari.
		On Tsarmijärvi Lake in Nellim, there is a Traveller's Cross consecrated to the memory of the dead who were left in Petsamo and to the work of the generations born in Petsamo.
		The most famous event in the northern Orthodox area is the annual pilgrimage of St. Triphon of Petsamo from Nellim to Sevettijärvi and often to Neiden in Norway, or even the Petsamo region.
	www.samimuseum.fi /saamjiellem/english/ortodoksisuus.html (670 words)

	Harrin kotisivu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(Petsamo is a single and duplex house neighbourhood, which is built in 1920-30´s).
		The goal of my quantitative analysis is to find such groups among Petsamo inhabitants (types of environmental binding), who live in different kind of actional relationships with environment.
		I have analysed the variables in my data, which concern waste management and studied the waste management history in Petsamo, because it is important for understanding present practices in waste management.
	www.uta.fi /~athanu/eindex.html (274 words)

	petsamo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Petsamo Scramble by Robert Bailey Messerschmitt 109's of JG-5 scramble from their base at Petsamo, Finland, during an attack by Russian aircraft flying from bases at Murmansk, only 40 miles...
		Nature's blessing - Petsamo's curse P etsamo is a textbook example of the Soviet Union's catastrophic impacts on the environment, the result of ruthlessly exploiting natural resources heedless of the...
		The memory of St. Triphon of Petsamo andquot;Having arrived in the ultimate north as the first man to enlighten its people/Thou, oh St. Triphon, guided the people of the North onto the...
	petsamo.networklive.org (300 words)

	Petsamo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Después que Petsamo se convirtió en una atracción turística popular pues era el único puerto en el mar de Barents que se podría alcanzar por un automóvil.
		Aunque la Soviet-unio'n había ocupado Petsamo durante la guerra del invierno ellos a la izquierda él a Finlandia, apaciguir posiblemente los gobiernos de las corporaciones que minan extranjeras operatorias allí.
		Petsamo fue cedido a la Soviet-unio'n según el tratado de la paz de París.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/pe/Petsamo.htm (346 words)

	Leavenworth Papers No.17: The Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation: Soviet Breakthrough and Pursuit in the Arctic, October 1944
		Soviet troops captured the Finnish town of Petsamo on 15 October and occupied the Norwegian port of Kirkenes on 25 October.
		The 14th Army was to attack with the main effort on the left, in the sector from Lake Chapr south to Hill 237.1, to defeat the 2d Mountain Division and seize the Petsamo-Luostari area by frontal attack.
		In the trackless terrain to the south, the 127th LRC units crossed the Petsamo River on the morning of 10 October.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/gebhardt/gebhardt.asp (16956 words)

	Petschenga - Wikipedia
		Petschenga (russisch Печенга, finnisch Petsamo) ist ein Gebiet und eine Stadt (2004: 3.000 Einwohner) im äußersten Nordwesten Russlands.
		Nach der Besetzung Norwegens durch Deutschland stellte Petsamo einen wichtigen Knotenpunkt für die Rohstoffversorgung der Wehrmacht, sowie einen wichtigen Stützpunkt der Luftwaffe (Eismeerjäger, insbesondere das Jagdgeschwader 5) dar.
		Murmansk wurde von Petsamo aus wiederholt von Luftwaffe, Wehrmacht und finnischen Verbänden angegriffen.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Petsamo (266 words)

	Raid on Kirkenes and Petsamo, Fleet Air Arm and the invasion of Russia, 1941. Part of the Fleet Air Arm Archive ...
		Raid on Kirkenes and Petsamo, Fleet Air Arm and the invasion of Russia, 1941.
		The intended Fleet Air Arm strikes on Petsamo and Kirkenes were decided at the highest level by Winston Churchill himself in an effort to practically support his new found ally, Stalin.
		The strike on Petsamo saw HMS Furious dispatch 9 Albacores (817) and 3 Fulmars of 801 sqdn in one sub-flight and 9 Swordfish of 812 sqdn and 3 Fulmars of 801 sqdn in a second sub-flight.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /RollofHonour/Battlehonour_crewlists/Petsamo_Kirkenes_1941.html (696 words)

	REGIONEN & BILDUNG: Nickel wurde Petsamo zum Verhängnis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Petsamo war ursprünglich 1864 als Kompensation für das Siestarjoki-Gebiet auf der karelischen Landenge, das der Zar wegen einer dortigen Gewehrfabrik Rußland einverleibte, dem Großfürstentum Finnland zugeteilt worden.
		Petsamo war für Finnland von großer Bedeutung, weil sein Hafen dank den Golfstroms rund ums Jahr eisfrei war.
		Petsamo avancierte in den rezessionsgeplagten 30er Jahren zum gelobten Land.
	www.publiscan.fi /sc15d-9.htm (598 words)

	EDUCATION & ECONOMY: Petsamo - For the sake of a piddling 200 million bucks! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With a workforce of 8,200 it is the biggest employer in the Petsamo region, the total population of which is 46,200.
		The 45,000 tonnes of the metal produced in 1998 was worth slightly in excess of $200 million.
		It is estimated that the total output for 1999 could bring in as much as $250 million.
	www.publiscan.fi /sc21e-0.htm (468 words)

	Jagdgeschwader 5
		Formed 25.1.42 in Petsamo from Jagdgruppe z.b.V., 4./JG5 from 4./JG77 in Alakurtti, 5./JG5 from 14./JG77 in Petsamo, and 6./JG5 from 1./JG77 in Stavanger (later Alakurtti).
		The other staffeln were also stationed at Petsamo, from time to time.
		Formed 2.43 in Petsamo from parts of 11./JG5.
	www.feldgrau.com /JG5.htm (478 words)

	Russia / Scandinavia - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Due to its geographical position Karelia happened to become in the Middle Ages the main battle field between the expanding interests of Sweden and Russia (earlier Novgorod).
		Since then it belonged to the Province of Käkisalmi (in Swedish: Kexholm; since 1946 known by its Russian name: Priozersk).
		I guess, a lot of countries has their own territory nowadays belong to other countries.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=100480 (1155 words)

	Saami Heritage - Paivatar
		When Aiti (Maria Dahl) was small girl she was brought to Petsamo.
		She was raised with this woman from a small child until she grew up.
		As a child growing up, she traveled with her adoptive mother, throughout the shores of Petsamo.
	www.paivatar.com /petsamo/petsamo1.htm (366 words)

	Learn more about Petsamo in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/pe/petsamo.html (323 words)

	Petsamo Scramble, by Robert Baily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Far to the north of Germany in one of the most inhospitable regions on the earth, stands Petsamo, Finland.
		In February 1944, a very closely knit unit of pilots and ground personnel of the Luftwaffe’s JG-5 (also known as Eismeer Jager) manned this remote and isolated airfield 300 miles above the arctic circle and approximately 50 miles from the Russian port of Murmansk.
		In Robert Bialey’s latest painting, titled "Petsamo Scramble," Me 109s of the Luftwaffe’s JG-5 struggle valiantly to get airborne as Russian aircraft attack their airfield.
	www.eyesofthewild.com /pesc2.html (169 words)

	Mangeettimäki_eng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Also the Swedes were badly in need of a transport connection to the Arctic Ocean, after the German invasion of Denmark and Norway had brought their own ports to a standstill.
		One of the carriers responsible for the oil and fuel supply to the Petsamo area was Oy Petko Ab.
		When the Finnish Veteran Lorry Association commemorated in 1990 the 50th anniversary of the commencement of traffic along the Petsamo road by arranging an Arctic Race, one of the participants was radio commentator Veli Karkkainen, who made the suggestion that the exotic Magnet Hill should be made into a museum road.
	www.vetku.fi /magneng.htm (1598 words)

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