Vyala River

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Vyala (Russian : Вяла) is a 35 km long river in the southwestern part on the Kola Peninsula, Murmansk Oblast, Russia. The Vyala is a tributary to the Umba River. It flows westwards from Lake Vyalozero through a sparsely populated landscape of forests and bogs. It joins the Umba River 15 km north of the Umba's outlet into the White Sea.

Russian is an East Slavic language, which is official in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely used throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It was the de facto language of the Soviet Union until its dissolution on 25 December 1991. Although nearly three decades have passed since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian is used in official capacity or in public life in all the post-Soviet nation-states, as well as in Israel and Mongolia.

The Kola Peninsula is a peninsula in the far northwest of Russia. Constituting the bulk of the territory of Murmansk Oblast, it lies almost completely inside the Arctic Circle and is bordered by the Barents Sea in the north and the White Sea in the east and southeast. The city of Murmansk is the most populous human settlement on the peninsula, with a population of over 300,000 as of the 2010 Census.

Murmansk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, located in the northwestern part of the country. Its administrative center is the city of Murmansk. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 795,409.

Sources

Topographical map 1:200,000 (Map) (1992 ed.). Russian Federation, Murmansk Oblast. § 22.

Coordinates: 66°52′22″N34°54′20″E / 66.87278°N 34.90556°E / 66.87278; 34.90556

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