Kola (, , ) is a town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kola and Tuloma Rivers, 12 km south of Murmansk and 24 km south-west of Severomorsk. It is the oldest town of the Kola Peninsula. Population: 11,060 (2002 Census).
A word of the Sioux Indians that has come to mean "friend", though in the past it was limited to what a man would call his best (male) friend, or a man that he would willingly die for. The female equivalent of this term (for a very special friend of a woman) is maske. Traditionally, it is reserved for special relationships and not used frivolously.