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Railway between Murmansk on the Arctic Ocean and Saint Petersburg on the Baltic Sea
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Kirov Railway
Legend
planned extension
Ponoi
Ostrovnoi
Kelvy
Revda
Murmansk
Oktyabrski
Kola
Umba
to Nikel & Kirkenes
Koashva
Vykhodnoy
Kirovsk
Olenegorsk
Imandra
Titan
Apatity
Afrikanda
to Konosha
Pinozero
Obozerskaya
Kandalaksha
to Arkhangelsk
to Kemijärvi
Bolshaya Kyama
Poyakonda
Nimenga
to Pyaozero
Malenga
Louhi
Kolezhma
Kem
Virma
Belomorsk
Vyg
Uda
Kochkoma
Kondopoga
Kuchozero
Segezha
Petrozero
Medvezhyegorsk
Ryugozero
Petrozavodsk–
Kouvola line
to
Suoyarvi
to Louhi
via Yushkozero
│
to Sukkozero
& Suoyarvi
Ledmozero II
to Yaroslavl
Kostomuksha
to Kirov
Kiviyarvi
Vologda I
Russia
Finland
border
to Konosha
Vartius
Sheksna
to Oulu
Cherepovets
Kontiomäki
Koshta
to Kajaani
Komarikha
Petrozavodsk
Uita
Tokari
Timoshkino
Svir
Babaevo
proposed Volkhov bypass
25 kV AC
3 kV DC
voltage
change
25 kV AC
3 kV DC
voltage
change
Lodeinoe Pole
Verkhnevolsky
Tikhvin
Volkhovstroy II
to Luga
Volkhovstroy I
Mga
Saint Petersburg
Kirov Railway (Russian: Кировская железная дорога, romanized: Kirovskaya zheleznaya doroga; until 1935 Murman Railway) is a 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) broad gauge Russian railway network that links the Murman Coast and Murmansk city (in the north) and Saint Petersburg (in the south). The railway is operated by the Arktika passenger train. The total distance between Saint Petersburg and Murmansk is 1,448 km (900 mi), the section between Petrozavodsk and Kola having a length of 1,054 kilometres (655 mi). It has 52 stations. The line is of vital military importance because of Murmansk being an ice-free port on the Arctic Sea. The northern part between Petrozavodsk and Kola was built in 1915–1917, due to a lack of workers under assignment of an increasing number of German and Austrian war prisoners. In 1941–1943 the central part between Svir and Petrozavodsk was occupied by the Finnish Army under orders from Mannerheim during the Second World War. Originally called the Murman Railway, the line was renamed the Kirov Railway in 1935 in honor of Sergei Kirov, a prominent Bolshevik leader of the Russian Revolution, who had been assassinated the year before. The railway was electrified in 2005.
KirovRailway (Russian: Кировская железная дорога, romanized: Kirovskaya zheleznaya doroga; until 1935 Murman Railway) is a 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in)...
Kirov Oblast (Russian: Ки́ровская о́бласть, romanized: Kirovskaya oblast') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in Eastern Europe. Its administrative...
The Kirov Plant, Kirov Factory or Leningrad Kirov Plant (LKZ) (Russian: Кировский завод, tr. Kirovskiy zavod) is a major Russian mechanical engineering...
German-Finnish forces failed to capture Murmansk or to cut the Kirov (Murmansk) Railway. The Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive in June and August 1944...
KirovRailway Station is the primary passenger railway station for the city of Kirov in Russia and an important stop along the Trans-Siberian Railway...
powered icebreaker fleet based in Murmansk. Murmansk is linked by the KirovRailway to St. Petersburg and is linked to the rest of Russia by the M18 Kola...
connects Murmansk with the rest of Russia by KirovRailway, which was electrified in 2005. There are also railways connections with Finland in Värtsilä and...
Transport, Railways and Communication on November 12 (30 October O.S.), 1915, and Grigori Rasputin was grieved. He developed the KirovRailway, constructed...
north, along with the Finnish Air Force. The port of Murmansk and the Kirovrailway were the major objectives; the later was Murmansk's life line to the...
the name). The railway network serves nine federal subjects of the Russian Federation: Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Vladimir Oblast, Kirov Oblast, Ryazan Oblast...
Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography Murman Railway, the original name of the KirovRailway connecting Saint Petersburg with Murmansk Murman Dumbadze...
pp. 7–47, Hentilä & Hentilä 2016, pp. 41–70 The Murmansk–Petrograd KirovRailway was deployed in 1916. Upton 1981, pp. 62–144, Keränen et al. 1992, p...
On 30 April, 4. Staffel flew a combat air patrol along the KirovRailway (Murman Railway). Near Loukhi, they encountered six Hawker Hurricane fighters...
in August 1941: these were tasked with securing the Murmansk Railway and the KirovRailway, significant to the Soviet military and war effort as the connection...
1990s. Electrification was completed on the Trans-Siberian Railway in 2002 and on the KirovRailway to Murmansk in 2005.[citation needed] Since 2008, diesel-hauled...
unsuccessful German-Finnish offensive which attempted to cut the strategic KirovRailway. By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of...
/ 58.30443; 48.63222 The Pishchalskoye peat railway is located in Kirov Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1963 and has a total length of...
fighter aviation regiment performed tasks to cover Murmansk and the Kirovrailway from German air raids. From July 1941, the regiment received MiG-3 aircraft...
gauge railway (Russian: Лунданская узкоколейная железная дорога, Lundanskaya uzkokoleynaya zheleznaya doroga) is a narrow-gauge railway in Kirov Oblast...
original on 2016-07-01. Retrieved 2017-04-10. "Gazprom extends Arctic railway". 2011-11-04. Archived from the original on 2013-01-01. Retrieved 2012-12-30...
for treason after helping German prisoners of war who had fled the KirovRailway construction site via Finnish Lapland to Sweden. He was not an actual...
town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Nizhny Novgorod–Kirovrailway, 240 kilometers (150 mi) northeast of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: 20...
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