Inta is a town in Komi Republic.

Understand

History

Inta was founded circa 1940 as a settlement to support a geological expedition to explore coal deposits and projecting of mines. The city's name is in the Nenets language and means "well-watered place". During the Soviet era, a "corrective labor camp", Intalag, was located here.

Get in

By plane

• 1 Inta Airport (INA  ^IATA). Komiaviatrans from Syktyvkar. (updated Jun 2019)

By train

Is on the Kotlas–Vorkuta railway line.