Railway between Murmansk on the Arctic Ocean and Saint Petersburg on the Baltic Sea
Kirov Railway
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
to Louhi
via Yushkozero
to Sukkozero
& Suoyarvi
Ledmozero II
to Yaroslavl
Kostomuksha
to Kirov
Kiviyarvi
Vologda I
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+2732 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.

See also

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