title: Safonovo, Murmansk Oblast
text: # Safonovo, Murmansk Oblast
  
  Safonovo (Russian: Сафоново) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the closed-administrative territorial formation of Severomorsk in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Kola Peninsula on the Kola Bay, 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) west of Severomorsk proper. Population: 5,255 (2010 Census); 4,853 (2002 Census); 7,661 (1989 Census).
  
  ## History
  
  It was founded as a work settlement around 1936.
  
  