Kolsky Uyezd

[1] At first, Sweden extracted the Kola Peninsula from both Russia and Denmark–Norway in a series of wars and resulting treaties.

[1] Claims from Denmark–Norway remained, and therefore in 1582, a Russian voivode was appointed to Kola to provide for better defenses of the peninsula.

[2] The territory of the Terskaya Lapps included the Sami pogosts of Voroninsky, Norensky (Semiostrovsky), Lovozersky, Ponoysky, and Kandala.

The territory of Konchanskaya Lapps comprised the pogosts of Babinsky, Yekostrovsky, Maselgsky, Songelsky, Notozersky, Munomoshsky (Kildinsky), Motovsky, Pechengsky, Pazretsky, and Nyavdemsky.

[2] Apart from the Sami pogosts, the uyezd also included Kandalakshskaya, Knyazhegubskaya, Kovdskaya, Keretskaya, and Poryegubskaya Volosts, as well as northern Karelia.

[2] Upon Paul I's accession to the throne in 1796, all viceroyalties in Russia were abolished, and the country was divided into governorates instead.

[2] Russia retained only a small plot of land on the left bank of the Paz River with a 16th-century church of Boris and Gleb, and a pogost,[2] today's Borisoglebsky.

[2] After having been reduced nearly to ashes as a result of a bombardment by a British ship in 1854,[2] the town of Kola went into decline.

[3] Of those, 63.1% spoke Russian, 18.7% Sami, 11.7% Finnish, 2.8% Karelian, 2.0% Norwegian or Danish, 1.3% Komi-Zyrian, and 0.3% Nenets as their first language.