Nikel [SEP] named after
Nikel
Nikel (, lit. "nickel"; ) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Pechengsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of Lake Kuets-Yarvi northwest of Murmansk and from the Norwegian border on . Population: 18,000 (1973).
History.
In the 1920 Treaty of Tartu, Soviet Russia ceded the area of Petsamo to Finland. In the 1930s huge reserves of nickel were found on fells nearby. The amount was estimated
1982 from the Perno shipyard in Turku, half a year behind schedule due to the prototype nature in many of its systems. The first ship from Valmet, "Nizhneyansk", was delivered from the Vuosaari shipyard in Helsinki on 21 January 1983, about three months ahead of the contracted delivery time. The remaining twelve ships, all named after cities within the Soviet Union, were delivered in 1983–1984.
Shortly after the last SA-15 class ships of the initial order, "Anadyry" from Valmet and "Nikel" from Wärtsilä