headland"), but this was changed to Kirkenes (meaning "church headland") after the Kirkenes Church was built here in 1862. Kirkenes was a village until 1998 when...
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the breakthrough of the German position, the pursuit to Kirkenes, and the battle for Kirkenes, including the southward pursuit that followed it. During...
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Kirkenes Airport (Norwegian: Kirkenes lufthavn; IATA: KKN, ICAO: ENKR) is an international airport located at Høybuktmoen, 15 kilometers (9 mi) west of...
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Kirkenes Station (Norwegian: Kirkenes stasjon) is a former railway station, located at Kirkenes in Sør-Varanger, Norway, that was the terminus of the...
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Liberation of Finnmark (section Recapture of Kirkenes)
of 19 October. From here the Soviets would continue towards Kirkenes. The fight for Kirkenes started on October 23, 1944, as the Soviet 14th Rifle Division...
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Kirkenes Church (Norwegian: Kirkenes kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located...
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The Kirkenes–Bjørnevatn Line (Norwegian: Kirkenes–Bjørnevatnbanen), or the Sydvaranger Line (Sydvarangerbanen), is a 8.5-kilometer (5.3 mi) long railway...
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Kirkenes Idrettsforening is a Norwegian sports club from Kirkenes. It has sections for association football, team handball and orienteering. It was founded...
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Operation EF (1941) (redirect from Raid on Kirkenes)
aircraft flew over a ship on their flights to Kirkenes and Petsamo, depriving the attackers of surprise. The Kirkenes force was intercepted by several German...
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Hurtigruten (lit. 'Express Route'), formally Kystruten Bergen-Kirkenes ("coastal route Bergen-Kirkenes"), is a Norwegian public coastal route transporting passengers...
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captured the Norwegian port of Kirkenes. The 14th Army pursued German troops withdrawing southwest from Petsamo and Kirkenes approximately 50 km (31 mi)...
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licensee of the European Computer Driving Licence. Datakortet is located in Kirkenes, and its products are distributed through 400 test centers in Norway. Over...
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Ice hotel (section Kirkenes Snow Hotel)
October 2014). "Travel: Kirkenes Snow Hotel, Arctic Norway". The Scotsman. Retrieved 21 October 2014. "Snowhotel". Kirkenes Snowhotel. Archived from...
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Northern Norway to Finland (the planned Arctic Railway) and Russia. At Kirkenes, the Kirkenes–Bjørnevatn Line is proposed to be connected to Russia's Murmansk–Nikel...
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located about 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) west of the town of Kirkenes. It is the site of Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen and the Garrison of Sør-Varanger. Høybuktmoen...
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Alta in 2024 and scored seven goals in their opening cup match against Kirkenes. As of the 1st of June, 2024, Hestad is the top scorer in the Norwegian...
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Doppelkopf 2nd Jassy–Kishinev Dukla Pass 2nd Baltic Belgrade Debrecen Petsamo–Kirkenes Courland Gumbinnen Budapest 1945 Vistula–Oder Western Carpathian East Prussia...
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Battle of Debrecen 6–29 October Germans able to hold back Soviets Petsamo–Kirkenes offensive 7–29 October The Soviet Union breaks through German lines into...
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Torp, Bodø Airport, Tromsø Airport, Langnes, Bergen Airport, Flesland, Kirkenes Airport and Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. Widerøe's operations are focused...
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Bjørnevatn and four years later the mine was connected to the port in Kirkenes by Kirkenes–Bjørnevatn Line, the world's most northern railway. The mine was...
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Doppelkopf 2nd Jassy–Kishinev Dukla Pass 2nd Baltic Belgrade Debrecen Petsamo–Kirkenes Courland Gumbinnen Budapest 1945 Vistula–Oder Western Carpathian East Prussia...
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World War II who commanded the Mountain Corps Norway during the Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive. He was the younger brother of Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations...
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towards Pskov, Kyiv and Odesa and E105 towards Petrozavodsk, Murmansk and Kirkenes (north) and towards Moscow and Kharkiv (south). The average amount of time...
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Heavy water sabotage Claymore Kirkenes and Petsamo Gauntlet Fritham Gearbox Gearbox II Leader Zitronella Attacks on Tirpitz Petsamo–Kirkenes Finnmark...
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Heavy water sabotage Claymore Kirkenes and Petsamo Gauntlet Fritham Gearbox Gearbox II Leader Zitronella Attacks on Tirpitz Petsamo–Kirkenes Finnmark...
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Heavy water sabotage Claymore Kirkenes and Petsamo Gauntlet Fritham Gearbox Gearbox II Leader Zitronella Attacks on Tirpitz Petsamo–Kirkenes Finnmark...
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anna.no. Drivenes' solo directorial debut was Vår mann i Kirkenes [no] ("Our Man in Kirkenes"), which premièred at the 2010 Tromsø International Film...
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routes destined to the ports of Petsamo and Kirkenes. On 30 July the Royal Navy conducted the Raid on Kirkenes and Petsamo, a carrier strike against the...
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United States European route E105, a north-south European route connecting Kirkenes in Norway to Yalta in Ukraine This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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about evacuating supplies by sea through Petsamo and the Norwegian town of Kirkenes. In early October 1944, some 53,000 men of the German 19th Mountain Corps...
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