Rybachy Peninsula

The Rybachy Peninsula projects into the Barents Sea at the western end of the Murman Coast. Its shores were used by seasonal fishing parties, and a station at Kegor became a meeting place for Russian and foreign merchants in the sixteenth century. Fishers came for the cod and herring of these northern waters, while traders exchanged goods brought by sea. Commerce later shifted towards Kola, but the peninsula remained part of the fishing network of the Murman coast.