Editing Murmansk (section)

==Demographics==
{{Historical populations
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|footnote = Source: Census data
|1926 | 8716
|1939 | 117069
|1959 | 221874
|1970 | 308642
|1979 | 380817
|1989 | 468039
|2002 | 336137
|2010 | 307257
|2021 | 270384
}}
[[File:Murmansk (19591668996).jpg|thumb|Children in Murmansk]]
The population of the city, according to the 2010 Census, was 307,257, of these, 141,130 men (45.9%) and 166,127 women (54.1%),<ref name="ms">Статистический сборник [http://murmanskstat.gks.ru/census/DocLib1/Тома%20официальной%20публикации%20итогов%20ВПН-2010.aspx Численность, размещение и возрастно-половой состав населения Мурманской области. Итоги Всероссийской переписи населения. Том 1. 2012] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121222192055/http://murmanskstat.gks.ru/census/DocLib1/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%20%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9%20%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8%20%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%20%D0%92%D0%9F%D0%9D-2010.aspx|date=December 22, 2012}} / Федеральная служба государственной статистики, Территориальный орган Федеральной службы государственной статистики по Мурманской области. Мурманск, 2012 — 75 с.</ref><ref name="murmanskstat.gks.ru">{{cite web |title=Численность населения Мурманской области по полу на 14 октября 2010 года |url=http://murmanskstat.gks.ru/census/DocLib7/02.doc |access-date=January 10, 2019}}{{dead link|date=October 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> down from 468,039 recorded in the 1989 Census. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the city has been consistently losing population, as the extensive military facilities the city is built around have declined. Ethnic [[Russians]] make up the majority of the population, but [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] and [[Belarusians|Belarusian]] minorities also live in the city.

Ethnic composition (2010):<ref>{{cite web |url=http://murmanskstat.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/murmanskstat/resources/073db3804e81006b8608f7b8fc91c3ba/16.xls |title=Распределение населения Мурманской области по наиболее многочисленным национальностям по муниципальным образованиям |access-date=2021-09-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173152/http://murmanskstat.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/murmanskstat/resources/073db3804e81006b8608f7b8fc91c3ba/16.xls|archive-date=2016-03-03 }}</ref>
* [[Russians]] – 89.6%
* [[Ukrainians]] – 4.6%
* [[Belarusians]] – 1.6%
* [[Tatars]] – 0.8%
* [[Azerbaijanis]] – 0.7%
* Others – 2.6%