The Apatity railway junction is part of the Oktyabrskaya Railway (OZhD) system. It includes 2 structural subdivisions of the Murmansk branch of the Russian Railways - the Apatitskaya track distance and the operational carriage depot.
In the 1970s, Lengiprotrans developed a project for the Apatity railway junction in connection with the construction of an external railway transport for the Apatity mining and processing plant (GOK). The GOK mines apatite for the production of fertilizers and nepheline for the aluminum industry, processes ore at aluminum-nepheline-processing plants for concentrate production and further transportation.
By 1989, the junction had three exits to the country's railway network, the stations Apatity I, Apatity II, Apatity III, Nizhnyaya, Aikuven, Titan, Kirovsk were newly built or developed. 7.5 km of main and station tracks were laid in the junction. The development of the unit ensured the export of 22 million tons of concentrates per year.
