Tikhvin
Tikhvin is a town and the administrative center of Tikhvinsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on both banks of the Tikhvinka River in the east of the oblast, 200 kilometers east of St. Petersburg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 58,300 residents
- Description: city and administrative center of Tikhvinsky District of Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia
- Also known as: “Tihvinä”
- Address: Тихвинский район
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dormition Monastery, Tikhvin and Monastery of Presentation of Mary (Tikhvin).
Dormition Monastery, Tikhvin
Monastery
Photo: Olga1969, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tikhvin Monastery of the Dormition of the Mother of God is a Russian Orthodox monastery founded in 1560. The monastery is located in the town of Tikhvin, on the left bank of the Tikhvinka River.
Tikhvin
- Categories: city or town and locality
- Location: Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
59.6443° or 59° 38′ 40″ northLongitude
33.5419° or 33° 32′ 31″ eastPopulation
58,300Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 27446511OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Tikhvin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تيخفين”
- Armenian: “Տիխվին”
- Azerbaijani: “Tixvin”
- Bashkir: “Тихвин”
- Basque: “Tikhvin”
- Belarusian: “Ціхвін”
- Bulgarian: “Тихвин”
- Catalan: “Tikhvin”
- Cebuano: “Tikhvin”
- Chinese: “Tikhvin”
- Chinese: “季赫温”
- Chinese: “季赫溫”
- Church Slavic: “Тихвинъ”
- Crimean Tatar: “Tihvin”
- Croatian: “Tihvin”
- Czech: “Tichvin”
- Czech: “Tihvinä”
- Danish: “Tikhvin”
- Dimli (individual language): “Tikhvin”
- Dutch: “Tichvin”
- Esperanto: “Tiĥvin”
- Estonian: “Tihvin”
- Finnish: “Tihvinä”
- French: “Tikhvine”
- Galician: “Tikhvin”
- Georgian: “ტიხვინი”
- German: “Tichwin”
- Greek: “Τίχβιν”
- Hebrew: “טיחבין”
- Hebrew: “טיחווין”
- Hungarian: “Tyihvin”
- Irish: “Tikhvin”
- Italian: “Tichvin”
- Japanese: “チフヴィン”
- Karelian: “Tihvinä”
- Korean: “티흐빈”
- Ladin: “Tihvin”
- Latin: “Tichvina”
- Latvian: “Tihvina”
- Lithuanian: “Tichvinas”
- Low German: “Tichwin”
- Luxembourgish: “Tichwin”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tikhvin”
- Northern Frisian: “Tichwin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tikhvin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tikhvin”
- Norwegian: “Tikhvin”
- Ossetian: “Тихвин”
- Persian: “تیخوین”
- Polish: “Tichwin”
- Portuguese: “Tikhvin”
- Romanian: “Tihvin”
- Romanian: “Tikhvin”
- Russian: “Тихвин”
- Rusyn: “Тіхвін”
- Serbian: “Тихвин”
- Slovenian: “Tihvin”
- South Azerbaijani: “تیخوین”
- Spanish: “Tijvin”
- Swedish: “Tichvin”
- Tagalog: “Tikhvin”
- Tajik: “Тихвин”
- Talysh: “Tixvin”
- Tatar: “Тихвин”
- Turkish: “Tihvin”
- Ukrainian: “Тихвін”
- Upper Sorbian: “Tichwin”
- Veps: “Tihvin”
- Vietnamese: “Tikhvin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tikhvin”
- Western Frisian: “Tichvin”
- Western Panjabi: “تیخوین”
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