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City of Military Glory is an honorary title bestowed upon the citizenry of Russian cities, where defenders had displayed courage, steadfastness, and mass heroism in the fight for their Fatherland’s freedom and independence during the Second World War.

Polyarny is a town, situated on the outermost western side of the Kola Bay. It was founded in 1896 and named Alexandrovsk in honor of Tsar Alexander III. Other sources, however, state that the original name was Alexandrovsk-na-Murmane, it was called so after Alexandra Fyodorovna, wife of Emperor Nicholas II, and did not become known as "Alexandrovsk" until later. On January 12, 1931, town was renamed as "Polyarny".

During the period of the Great Patriotic War of 1941 — 1945 in Polyarny was the main base of the Northern Fleet. In the years of this bloody war Polyarny became the only thing from the main naval bases of the fleet of the USSR which fascists didn't manage to take. Across city streets Polyarny there have passed legs only of the captivated invaders.