Night train route
Arktika
Moscow → Murmansk · Russia
Russia’s polar flagship crosses the Arctic Circle on the 1916 Murman railway: 35 hours north to a port where winter trains arrive in round-the-clock night.
- Distance
- 1,940 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 35 h
- Average speed
- 55 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmMoscow-Oktyabrskaya +4
- 166 kmTver
- 284 kmVishny Volochok
- 329 kmBologoye-Moskovskoye
- 399 kmOkulovka
- 481 kmMalaya Vishera
Show 23 more stations
- 525 kmChudovo Moskovskoye
- 644 kmSt. Petersburg Ladozhsky +1
- 759 kmВолховстрой I +1
- 880 kmLodeynoye Pole
- 917 kmPodporozhye
- 924 kmСвирь
- 1,038 kmPetrozavodsk
- 1,092 kmKondopoga
- 1,158 kmKäppäselkä
- 1,190 kmМедвежья Гора
- 1,299 kmSegezha
- 1,317 kmNadvoitsy
- 1,335 kmKochkoma
- 1,347 kmИдель
- 1,404 kmBelomorsk
- 1,459 kmKem
- 1,511 kmKuzema
- 1,566 kmEnkijärvi
- 1,583 kmАмбарный
- 1,620 kmLouhi
- 1,647 kmChupa
- 1,728 kmКняжая
- 1,781 kmKandalaksha
- 1,808 kmPolarnie Zori
- 1,865 kmApatity
- 1,937 kmOlenegorsk
- 2,037 kmKola
- 2,047 kmMurmansk
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1186671: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 86 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 21 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Russian Railways, a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Arktika?
The Arktika runs 1,940 km from Moscow to Murmansk.
How long does the Arktika take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 35 h for the 1,940 km. That is an average of 55 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 120 km/h.
Who runs the Arktika?
RZD, with Arktika № 16/15.
How old is the Arktika?
The line has been in service since 1916. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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