Sosnogorsk
Sosnogorsk (Russian: Сосного́рск) is in the center Komi Republic of Northwestern Russia. It was founded in 1939 as a railway station and later became home to a gulag. Today it is a small city of about 26,000 on the left bank of the Izhma River. Until 1957, it was known as Izhma (И́жма).
Understand[edit]
Get in[edit]
By plane[edit]
The closest airport is at Ukhty.
By train[edit]
Trains through Sosnogorsk go on to Vorkuta or Labytnangi. From Moscow's Yaroslavl Station there is a direct train, Moscow-Sosnogorsk.
Get around[edit]
There are three bus routes in town: 11, 19, and 21.
See[edit]
1 Memorial Museum of Local History (Историко-краеведческий мемориальный музей), ул.Пионерская, д.18.
Do[edit]
In July, Sosnogorsk hosts the annual Komi Republic jazz, pop, and rock music festival!