Nyonoksa

Nyonoksa, also Nenoksa, ( ) is a rural locality (a selo) under the administrative jurisdiction of Severodvinsk Town of Oblast Significance, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It is located at the coast of the Dvina Bay of the White Sea (the Summer Coast) northwest of the city of Severodvinsk. The Nyonoksa railway station is from Nyonoksa at the mostly military village of Sopka along the Northern Railway line from Severodvinsk. Nyonoksa is accessible by land vehicles only during the winter months when the nearby swampland freezes.

== Missile testing site == Established in 1954 near Nyonoksa is "The State Central Navy Testing Range" () which is the main rocket launching site of the Soviet Navy and later the Russian Navy and is also called Nyonoksa. The naval missile range is also known as military unit 09703. Since 1965 numerous rockets of the types R-27, R-29, R-39 Rif and R-39M were launched from Nyonoksa. These rockets were prototypes for the employment on missile submarines. The launching site is located in the mostly military settlement of Sopka (), which has a railroad station, hosts the military unit 09703, has a population similar to Nyonoksa of about 500, and is north of the selo of Nyonoksa.