Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov and the Church of the Holy Myrrhbearers

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).

Get in

By plane

The closest airport is at Ukhty.

By train

Trains through Sosnogorsk go on to Vorkuta or Labytnangi. From Moscow's Yaroslavl Station there is a direct train, Moscow-Sosnogorsk.

Get around

There are three bus routes in town: 11, 19, and 21.

See

1 Memorial Museum of Local History (Историко-краеведческий мемориальный музей), ул.Пионерская, д.18. 

Do

In July, Sosnogorsk hosts the annual Komi Republic jazz, pop, and rock music festival!