Murman Coast

The Murman Coast borders the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, facing the Barents Sea. From the sixteenth century Pomor fishers travelled from the White Sea to seasonal stations here to catch cod and herring. Merchants from Norway and western Europe came to exchange cloth, metal goods and other imports for fish, oil and furs. Kola became an important centre of this commerce, although the founding of Arkhangelsk redirected much foreign trade with Russia's interior to the Northern Dvina.