Onega, Russia limited passenger service on the Onega Bay. The Onega is served by the Onega Airport which has weekly passenger flights to Arkhangelsk and to the "selo" of Purnema on the Onega Peninsula. Close to the town, there is also an uncompleted military air base, Onega Andozero. In 2003, the Russian inland oil shipping company Volgotanker started using the White Sea-Baltic Canal for exporting fuel oil. The scheme involved delivering oil by river tanker, over the canal and into a floating transfer terminal near the Osinki Island in the Onega Bay, 36 km north-east of the port of Onega, for transfer
Onega Peninsula one of the Kazakov's books of short stories is "Poedemte v Lopshengu" — Let us go to Lopshenga. The economy of the peninsula is based on the timber production and fishery. The village of Luda is connected by an all-season road to Severodvinsk and Onega. There is a boat ferry across the Una Bay. Other villages at the coast have infrequent air and sea connections to Onega and Arkhangelsk. A national park, Onezhskoye Pomorye National Park, was opened on the coast of the Onega Peninsula in 2013 to protect pristine forests. Onega Peninsula The Onega Peninsula is located in Arkhangelsk