Kola River
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| Origin | Lake Kolozero |
| Mouth | Kola Bay |
| Basin countries | Russia |
| Length | 83 km |
| Source elevation | 140 m |
| Avg. discharge | 40 m³/s |
| Basin area | 3,850 km² |
Kola (Russian: Кола) is a river on the Kola Peninsula i Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It is 83 km long, with a drainage basin of 3,850 km². The river flows out of Lake Kolozero north into the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea, some 10 km south of Murmansk. The neighbouring Tuloma River has its mouth just one kilometer to the west. The average discharge is 40 m³/s, but there are large seasonal variations. Its largest tributaries is Kitsa and Orlovka from the right, and Tukhta and Medvezhya from the left.
The only town on the river Kola.
Fiction:
The Bay of Kola is the setting for part of the 2nd installement of the Artemis Fowl Series "The Arctic Incident". It is said that "The Fowl Star", the Fowl family ship, was hit by a shoulder fired rocket, and sank in the Bay of Kola. On board the ship was 250,000 cans of Cola, "making it truly the Bay of Kola" according to a fictional Russian Mafia enforcer.
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