Kola is a river on the
Kola Peninsula in
Murmansk Oblast,
Russia. It is 83 km long, with a drainage basin of 3,850 km². The river flows out of Lake Kolozero north into the
Kola Bay of the
Barents Sea, some 10 km south of
Murmansk. The neighbouring
Tuloma River has its mouth just one kilometer to the west. The average discharge is 40 m³/s, but there are large seasonal variations. Its largest tributaries is Kitza and Orlovka from the right, and Tukhta and Medvezhya from the left. The only town on the river is also called
Kola.