Five Corners, Murmansk
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Five Corners is the main square of Murmansk
Murmansk
Murmansk is a city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It serves as a seaport and is located in the extreme northwest part of Russia, on the Kola Bay, from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of the Kola Peninsula, not far from Russia's borders with Norway and Finland...

, Russia. From 1977 until December of 1990 it was formally named "Soviet Constitution Square", but this name never caught on.

The following buildings are located on the square:
  • the Murmansk Regional Duma
    Duma
    A Duma is any of various representative assemblies in modern Russia and Russian history. The State Duma in the Russian Empire and Russian Federation corresponds to the lower house of the parliament. Simply it is a form of Russian governmental institution, that was formed during the reign of the...

     building (this building formerly housed the Sevryba Management Software company)
  • the General Post Office
  • the Kirov
    Sergey Kirov
    Sergei Mironovich Kirov , born Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov, was a prominent early Bolshevik leader in the Soviet Union. Kirov rose through the Communist Party ranks to become head of the Party organization in Leningrad...

     Cultural and Technology Center
  • the Hotel Arctic
    Hotel Arctic (Murmansk)
    The Arctic is a high-rise hotel in the center of Murmansk, Russia. It is the tallest building in Murmansk and the tallest building located above the Arctic Circle.-Description:The hotel is located at 82 Lenin Avenue at Five Corners, Murmansk's main square...

  • the Meridian Hotel
  • Volna ("Wave"), a supermarket


Until the mid-1980s, there were many two-story wooden houses around the square. The last of these was demolished after the construction of the Hotel Arctic.
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