RUSSIA’S ICE-FREE PORT.
COMPLETION 01*’ MERMAN RAILWAY. According to tin article published by the Russian Chamber of Commerce in Paris, the Munnan railway ims been completed and' the first trains have been run to the Murman coast. The length of the line from Petrograd to Alexandrovsk is about b3O miles. The road follows the nut in line from Petrograd-Vyatka-Perm to the station of Zvanka, 75 lises east of Petrograd. There it turns north, passing Petrozavodsk on Lake Onega; Soroka, a small port on the western coast of the White Sea; and Kern, another small White Sea port, about 30 miles further north. Turning to the northwest, the line reaches Kandalaksha, at the most westerly poin>t of the M bite Sea, and leaving on the west Lake Tmandra and the small Lake Kola, whence issues the Kola River, a branch of the Touloma, it arrives at Kola, which is situated at the confluence of the two rivers. The railroad then follows the western shore of the estuary to Alexandrovsk, in Katherine Harbour.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1697, 12 April 1917, Page 4
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171RUSSIA’S ICE-FREE PORT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1697, 12 April 1917, Page 4
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