Zasheyek (Russian: Заше́ек) is a rural locality (an inhabited locality) in administrative jurisdiction of Polyarnye Zori Town with Jurisdictional Territory in Murmansk Oblast, Russia,[1] located beyond the Arctic Circle on the Kola Peninsula at a height of 142 meters (466 ft) above sea level.

[3] Zasheyek was classified as an urban locality by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) Resolution of August 20, 1935, when it was granted work settlement status.

[7] The joint meeting of the representatives of Murmansk Okrug and Karelia, which took place on April 15, 1936, was unable to resolve the situation.

[7] Only on April 1, 1937 the Presidium of the VTsIK approved the petition for transfer of several inhabited localities (including the work settlement of Zasheyek); however, the VTsIK did not list all of the inhabited localities being transferred by name, which led to the continuation of the dispute.

[7] Furthermore, the Presidium refused to approve the conciliatory commission's findings and petitioned to rescind the VTsIK's resolution of April 1, 1937 and to officially document the border between Murmansk Okrug and the Karelian ASSR.