The location of the oblast' is advantageous. It is connected by the railway and roads with Moscow and St. Petersburg. The ice-free Barents Sea and Kola Bay allow the all-year round navigation.

Railways
The main transportation route of the Kola Peninsula is the railway St. Petersburg–Murmansk. Murmansk has a through railway service with Moscow (travel time about 40 hours, in winter there are two regular trains, in summer – 4–5), St. Petersburg (travel time about 32 hours, usually two trains), Vologda, Minsk. Additional trains are scheduled to Adler, Volgograd, etc. in summer. All trains go through Petrozavodsk.
Big railway stations are Olenegorsk, Apatity, Kandalaksha. There are branch lines from the Pinozero station to Kovdor, from the Kola station to Nikel' and Pechenga. A short line goes from Apatity to Kirovsk. The total length of the railways within the Murmanskaya oblast' is 891 km.

Automobile transportation
The main route of the oblast' is M18, St. Petersburg—Petrozavodsk– Murmansk. The total length of automobile roads within the oblast' is 4,400 km. All towns of the oblast' are connected with Murmansk by paved roads.
One can get by bus or by car to the popular tourist places: from Olenegorsk to Lovozero, Revda, and Monchegorsk; from Kandalaksha to Umba and Varzuga.
There is regular bus service with neighboring Norway (Kirkenes) and Finland (Rovaniemi). There are three check points on the state border.
«Borisoglebsk» – on the Norwegian border; А from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. according to Moscow time (time difference from Norway is 2 hours).
«Lotta» and «Salla» – on the Finnish border; А from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. according to Moscow time (time difference from Finland is 1 hour).

 

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