Trangsund
Vysotsk is a coastal town and a seaport in Vyborgsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Karelian Isthmus, on the eastern shore of the Vyborg Bay, 12 kilometers southwest of Vyborg and 159 kilometers northwest of St. Petersburg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 1,150 residents
- Description: town in Russia
- Also known as: “Trångsund”, “Transund”, “Tranzund”, “Trongsund”, “Uras”, “Uras-Trongsund”, “Uuraa”, and “Vysotsk”
- Address: Выборгский район, 188909
- Postal code: 188909
Places of Interest
Highlights include Maly Vysotsky Island and Pikhtovoye platform.
Maly Vysotsky Island
Island
Photo: Dmitriy Alekseenkoff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maly Vysotsky Island or Malyj Vysotskij Island is an island in northwest Russia, that was leased to Finland. It is located in Vyborg Bay, next to Vysotsk, 12 km southwest of Vyborg.
Pikhtovoye platform
Railway stop
Photo: Scaut2002, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pikhtovoye platform is a railway stop, which is situated 4 km southeast of Trangsund.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Podberezye and Matrosovo.
Podberezye
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Podberezye is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km north of Trangsund.
Matrosovo
Hamlet
Photo: Avsolov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Matrosovo is a hamlet, which is situated 9 km east of Trangsund.
Popovo
Neighborhood
Photo: Scaut2002, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Popovo is a neighborhood, which is situated 9 km southeast of Trangsund.
Trangsund
- Categories: city or town, port, and locality
- Location: Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.62803° or 60° 37′ 41″ northLongitude
28.56883° or 28° 34′ 8″ eastPopulation
1,150United Nations Location Code
RU VYSOpen location code
9GGCJHH9+6GOpenStreetMap ID
node 34390960OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
469995Wikidata ID
Q15250
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wolof—“Trangsund” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيسوتسك”
- Azerbaijani: “Vısotsk”
- Bashkir: “Высоцк”
- Belarusian: “Высоцк”
- Bulgarian: “Висоцк”
- Cebuano: “Vysotsk”
- Chechen: “Высоцк”
- Chinese: “Vysotsk”
- Chinese: “維索茨克”
- Chinese: “维索茨克”
- Crimean Tatar: “Vısotsk”
- Czech: “Trongzund”
- Czech: “Uuras”
- Czech: “Vysock”
- Danish: “Vysotsk”
- Dimli (individual language): “Vysotsk”
- Dutch: “Vysotsk”
- Esperanto: “Visock”
- Estonian: “Uuras”
- Estonian: “Võssotsk”
- Finnish: “Uuras”
- Finnish: “Vysotsk”
- French: “Vyssotsk”
- Georgian: “ვისოცკი”
- German: “Uuras”
- German: “Wyssozk”
- German: “Trångsund” (historical)
- Italian: “Vysock”
- Japanese: “ヴィソツク”
- Korean: “비소츠크”
- Latin: “Tralesonda”
- Latvian: “Visocka”
- Lithuanian: “Vysockas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vysotsk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vysotsk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vysotsk”
- Norwegian: “Trångsund”
- Norwegian: “Vysotsk”
- Ossetian: “Высоцк”
- Persian: “ویسوتسک”
- Polish: “Wysock”
- Russian: “Высоцк”
- Russian: “Высо́цк”
- Russian: “Тронгзунд” (historical)
- Russian: “Уурас” (historical)
- Scots: “Vysotsk”
- Serbian: “Висоцк”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویسوتسک”
- Spanish: “Vysotsk”
- Swedish: “Trångsund, Ryssland”
- Swedish: “Trångsund”
- Tagalog: “Vysotsk”
- Tajik: “Висотск”
- Talysh: “Vysotsk”
- Tatar: “Высотск”
- Tatar: “Высоцк”
- Turkish: “Vısotsk”
- Ukrainian: “Висоцьк”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wysock”
- Veps: “Visock”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vysotsk”
- Wolof: “Vysotsk”
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