| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Finnmark#Norway |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Label: | Elvenes |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Norway |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Northern Norway |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Finnmark |
| Subdivision Type3: | District |
| Subdivision Name3: | Øst-Finnmark |
| Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name4: | Sør-Varanger Municipality |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +01:00 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +02:00 |
| Postal Code Type: | Post Code |
| Postal Code: | 9900 Kirkenes |
| Coordinates: | 69.6792°N 30.1056°W |
| Elevation M: | 20 |
| Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
,,, or [2] is a village in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located at the mouth of the river Pasvikelva where it flows into the Bøkfjorden, a southern branch of the Varangerfjorden. The village lies about east of the village of Hesseng, along the European route E105. The town of Kirkenes lies about a 10km (10miles) drive to the northwest.[3]
During the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany a camp for Soviet prisoners-of-war was located in Elvenes, and in 1942 about six hundred Norwegian teachers were sent to Elvenes for slave labour.[4] [5]
As part of an programme of improvements to European route E105, work started in 2014 on a bypass route to the north of the village comprising a 284m (932feet) long new Bøkfjord Bridge and a new 690m (2,260feet) tunnel through the adjacent Trifonhøgda mountain.[6] The bridge has a 500tonne steel central arch span of, which was constructed in Wilhelmshaven, Germany and will be transported by barge along the entire west and north coast of Norway into the fjord. The section of road between Elvenes and the Russian border at Storskog was constructed in 2013, while the bridge and tunnel opened in September 2017.[7]
. Frå lærarstriden . J.W.Eides Forlag . 1946 . Bergen . Norwegian . Olav Hoprekstad.