Kem (Russian: Кемь; Finnish and Karelian: Kemi) is a historic town and the administrative center of Kemsky District of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, located on the shores of the White Sea where the Kem River enters it, on the railroad leading from Petrozavodsk to Murmansk.
Kem in The Hot War[]
In the last year of World War III, Kem became an essential warm-water port for the Soviet Union after the United States destroyed Murmansk and Arkhangelsk in May 1952.[1]
The Soviet submarine carried Boris Gribkov and his crew to Kem after they successfully destroyed Washington, DC.[2]
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