Sosnogorsk

Sosnogorsk (Russian: Сосного́рск; Komi: Сӧснагорт, Sösnagort) is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia, located on the Izhma River.

[7] The settlement was first established in 1939 as a railway station.

[citation needed] During the Soviet era, a corrective labor camp was located here.

Gas giant Gazprom has a natural-gas condensate factory in the town.

[8] Within the framework of administrative divisions, the town of Sosnogorsk is, together with two urban-type settlement administrative territories (comprising the urban-type settlements of Voyvozh and Nizhny Odes and three rural localities) and thirteen rural localities, incorporated as the town of republic significance of Sosnogorsk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.