Solovetsky, Arkhangelsk Oblast airport on the archipelago. There is regular air service to Arkhangelsk, as well as regular summer passenger sea connections to Arkhangelsk, Kem, and Belomorsk. Solovetsky, Arkhangelsk Oblast Solovetsky () is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Solovetsky District in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located on the west coast of Bolshoy Solovetsky Island in the White Sea. Municipally, it is the administrative center of Solovetskoye Rural Settlement of Primorsky District. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 840. From 1435, when Solovetsky Monastery was founded, and until 1920, when it was abolished, the islands were the property
Port of Murmansk Arkhangelsk and St. Petersburg (later renamed Petrograd). However, after the blocking of the Ottoman Empire's straits of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles to outside shipping and blockading of the Baltic Sea port of St. Petersburg, the Russian Empire could only use the northern port of Arkhangelsk. This port had limitations: when winter presented itself, navigation and shipping of any sort came to a halt. Therefore, it was decided to build a new port. The chosen location was in Murmansk due to its ability to accommodate sea traffic year-round, proximity to existing communities and relative ease to connect it to the empire's