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Dalniye Zelentsy through the lens of Alina Romanova

Alina Romanova explores ‘disappearing’ Russia. She travels along non-standard and hard-to-reach routes of the country visits non-tourist, abandoned, and little-known places. She shared with us the story of a trip to Dalniye Zelentsy, a small village in the Kola area of Murmansk oblast’.

“Arrived in Dalniye Zelentsy, we headed to the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute (MMBI), a once “city-forming” company, engaged in the study of biology and oceanology of the northern (and nowadays also southern) seas.

Even before the appearance of MMBI here, the Murmansk Biological Station of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR was opened in Zelentsy in 1935. But in 1958, after reorganization processes, it became the Institute. Nowadays the building of the institute is abandoned and it is living its last days in the harsh northern climate. The MMBI itself has been based in Murmansk since 1989, while the base for experimental work is preserved in Zelentsy.

In addition to the institute, there is a diving center in Zelentsy. A corrosion station also operates here, MMBI employees work, and 15 people of the local population continue to live.

We went for a walk around Zelentsy. Destroyed houses, abandoned boats, cold winds, and the endless beauty of northern nature — that's what Dalniye Zelentsy is all about. The very edge of the world."