Pechenga Bay

Pechenga Bay is a fjord-like bay of the Barents Sea on the Kola Peninsula in the Murmansk Oblast, Russia, about 25 km east from the border with Norway. It has rocky shores and stretches inland for 17 km. The Pechenga River discharges into the bay. The settlements of Pechenga and Liinakhamari are located on the shores of the bay.
The area was part of Finland from 1920 until 1944.
The shores if the bay are surrounded by fells, such as and , both on the western side of the bay.
The Pechenga Monastery, formerly known as the Tryphon-Pechenga Monastery is by Pechenga near the bay.
A depopulated village of is on the western side.
A 1909 Russian book by counter admiral Aleksandr Sidensner gives the following description: