Deer Guba is a village in the Murmansk region, located on the shores of the bay of the same name. The lip from Pomeranian is a bay, but it’s a deer, because in those places there were herds of commercial deer. According to archives, at the beginning of the last century, namely on May 3, 1920, a reindeer herding fishing village with the name Deer Guba was formed.
Geographic location
Geographically, the bay called Deer Lip has a very convenient location. The bay in which it is located has sufficient depth (up to 60 meters), as well as protection by means of the peninsula from piercing northerly winds, and hence from excessive wave formation.
The convenient location of the bay, namely, the proximity of the exit to the Barents Sea and the Kola Bay, as well as good depth, became an excellent reason to place the Northern Fleet base in Olenya Guba Bay, Murmansk Region.
History of the village
The village of Oleniya Guba was first mentioned in Soviet Russia. The settlement belonged to the Aleksandrovsky village council, the center of which was listed in the city of Aleksandrovsk, Aleksandrovskaya volost. From this date, the age of the village is counted.
In the late thirties, after the order on the formation of the Northern Fleet in the village of Olenya Guba, Murmansk Region, the construction of moorings for warships began, the construction of which progressed with great difficulty, since in those days there was no road to the village. All possible cargoes were sent to Olenaya Guba by sea from Aleksandrovsk (now Polyarny).
By the beginning of 1940, moorings on the western and eastern shores of the bay were ready, as well as warehouses, barracks (and even a recreation center for sailors) and a hospital were built.
Glorious naval past
When the Great Patriotic War began, a division of torpedo boats, the Order of Ushakov of the 1st degree 108 Pechenga Red Banner, which in the fall of 1944 participated in the world-famous Petsamo-Kirkenes operation, was deployed in Olenaya Guba. Only during the war boats passed 22 round the world. On the account of the division are 66 landings landed in the enemy rear, 29 downed Nazi aircraft, as well as 5 damaged, 9 wrecked and sunk transports, 161 battles and 251 escorted vehicles.
After the war ended, at the turn of the 40-50s, no civilian population remained in the village. To improve the living conditions for the sailors there, the first five one-story buildings are being built. Along with this, military builders built a coal-fired boiler house, farm buildings and, of course, barracks.
All civilians working in the military unit as civilian employees lived in the Shield village, which is nearby and does not currently exist.
In the period from 1955 to 1958 a division of submarines, then still diesel, was transferred to Olenya Guba. And in the 70-80s of the last century, the village became the base of nuclear submarines.
On the morning of January 27, 1961, a terrible thing happened. Submarine S-80 crashed and sank. The search for the boat did not stop for eight long years, and finally, on July 25, 1969, the submarine was found and raised.
They say that there are no easy times in Russia. And a small fishing village experienced them together with their country for almost a hundred years of its existence. Just one of many - a place with a strange name Deer Guba in the Murmansk region (photo posted in the article), and what a rich long history of a small village, lost at the ends of the world.