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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hurtigruten (lit. 'Express Route'), formally Kystruten Bergen-Kirkenes ("coastal route Bergen-Kirkenes"), is a Norwegian public coastal route transporting passengers...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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MS «Havila Castor» is a ship that operates the coastal route Bergen–Kirkenes on the basis of a contract between the shipping company Havila Kystruten 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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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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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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Heavy water sabotage Claymore Kirkenes and Petsamo Gauntlet Fritham Gearbox Gearbox II Leader Zitronella Attacks on Tirpitz Petsamo–Kirkenes Finnmark...
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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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and shoppers arrived in Kirkenes. Since the beginning of the European migrant crisis many Syrian refugees arrived in Kirkenes via Russia. Lægland, Martin...
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