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
Arkhangelsk Oblast of the Northern Dvina and the Onega. The railroad construction gave the momentum to the population and exploitation of these areas. A branch from Konosha eastwards to Kotlas and further to Vorkuta was constructed in the 1940s to facilitate the transport of coal from the Komi Republic. From Kotlas, another branch continues south to Kirov. A branch from Obozersky to the west, to Onega and further to Belomorsk, was built during World War II to secure the transport of goods from the harbour of Murmansk to central Russia. A piece of railroad between Arkhangelsk and Karpogory was also built in