This article is about the place in northern Norway. For the district of Helsinki, see Suurmetsä.
Border control station in Northern Norway, Norway
Storskog
Border control station
Storskog border station from the Norwegian side. Border posts are visible between the building and the dark van.
A Russian watch tower rises on the hill in the background.
The Russian side is in Boris Gleb in Pechengsky District in Murmansk Oblast. There is a border crossing station on the Russian side also, and both have to be passed to enter the opposite country. There is a duty-free shop in Russia between the stations.
Storskog is the only legal land border crossing between Norway and Russia. The station lies in the far northeastern part of Norway, about 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) east of the town of Kirkenes in Norway and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Nikel.[2]
Traffic
In 2010, there were 141,000 crossings across the border at the Storskog border station.[3]