Storskog
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Storskog is a place in Sør-Varanger
municipality, Finnmark
, Norway
, where there is the only legal land border crossing from Norway to Russia
. It lies on the E105 road
, 16 km east of Kirkenes
.
In 2010, 141 000 passages were made across the border at the Storskog border station.
Storskog lies opposite the Russian village of Boris Gleb, the location of the Russian border post.
Sør-Varanger
Sør-Varanger is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kirkenes. Sør-Varanger was separated from the municipality of Vadsø on 1 July 1858.-Name:...
municipality, Finnmark
Finnmark
or Finnmárku is a county in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland to the south and Russia to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, and the Barents Sea to the north and northeast.The county was formerly known as Finmarkens...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
, where there is the only legal land border crossing from Norway to Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
. It lies on the E105 road
European route E105
The E 105 is part of the International E-road network, which is a series of main roads in Europe.The E 105 starts from Hesseng, , Norway and runs along the Russian route M18, Russian route M10, Russian route M2 and Ukrainian route M18 to Yalta, Ukraine.Major towns and cities on the...
, 16 km east of Kirkenes
Kirkenes
is a town in the municipality of Sør-Varanger in the county of Finnmark in the far northeast of Norway...
.
In 2010, 141 000 passages were made across the border at the Storskog border station.
Storskog lies opposite the Russian village of Boris Gleb, the location of the Russian border post.