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,[1] located on the Kola Peninsula on the Kola Bay, 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) west of Severomorsk proper.

Population: 5,255 (2010 Census);[2] 4,853 (2002 Census);[6] 7,661 (1989 Soviet census).

[7] It was founded as a work settlement around 1936.

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