Bjørnevatn are all included with Kirkenes, the urban area reaches a total population of almost 8,000 people. Although Kirkenes is the Norwegian town closest...
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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 Station (Norwegian: Kirkenes stasjon) is a former railway station, located at the town of Kirkenes in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county...
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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 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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Liberation of Finnmark (section Recapture of Kirkenes)
would continue towards Kirkenes. Soviet deaths during the Soviet force's campaign into Finnmark, was 611. The fight for Kirkenes started on October 23...
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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 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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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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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 thirteen 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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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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MS «Havila Capella» is a ship that operates the coastal route Bergen–Kirkenes on the basis of a contract between the shipping company Havila Kystruten...
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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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opened and in 1968 to Nikel. The Norwegian Kirkenes World Port Group consortium has proposed connecting the Kirkenes–Bjørnevatn Line mining railway to the...
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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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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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Surnadal beat Herd. Harstad beat Innstranda. Ulfstind beat Kirkenes. Innstranda beat Kirkenes RSSSF Fotball.no Fotball.no Fotball.no Fotball.no Fotball...
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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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based on these reference roads. E105 starts from Hesseng, (just south of Kirkenes), Norway and runs along Russia's R21, M10, M2: Ukraine's M20, M29, and...
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the Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive which aimed to extinguish the German military forces in the area. Soviet forces took the town of Kirkenes, which had been...
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Bergen to Kirkenes depicted the Norwegian Coastal Express (Norwegian: Hurtigruten) ship MS Nordnorge on a 134-hour voyage from Bergen to Kirkenes. The programme...
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HMS Achates (H12) (section Kirkenes to Torch)
On 23 July 1941, while the task force to take part in a carrier raid on Kirkenes and Petsamo was assembling off Iceland, Achates struck a British mine and...
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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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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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her homeport would be at Kirkenes, only 7 km from the Norwegian-Russian border. In 2019 the NIS denied to confirm Kirkenes as her home port when asked...
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towards Pskov, Kyiv and Odesa and E105 towards Petrozavodsk, Murmansk and Kirkenes (north) and towards Moscow and Kharkiv (south). The city is also served...
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