Oka River
The Oka is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol, Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan, Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as the town of Kaluga.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Russia, tributary of Volga
- Also known as: “Oka”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Nizhny Novgorod and Kashirin House Museum.
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Nizhny Novgorod
Church
Photo: Vyacheslav Bukharov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox cathedral church located in the Kanavinsky city district of Nizhny Novgorod. The cathedral is located on the former territory of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair.
Peter I house in Nizhny Novgorod
Historic building
Peter I house in Nizhny Novgorod is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nizhny Novgorod and Мещерское озеро.
Nizhny Novgorod
Photo: Ludvig14, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nizhny Novgorod, colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is Russia's fifth largest city, ranking after Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg.
Мещерское озеро
Suburb
Photo: Vagant1221, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Мещерское озеро is a suburb, which is situated 2½ km west of Oka River.
Bor
Town
Photo: Vitaliyboch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bor is a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Volga River, across from Nizhny Novgorod. The two cities are connected by bridges built in 1965 and 2017, and by ferry service. Bor is situated 6 km northeast of Oka River.
Oka River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Oka River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oka-rivier”
- Afrikaans: “Oka”
- Arabic: “نهر أوكا”
- Armenian: “Օկա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Oka”
- Azerbaijani: “Oka çayı”
- Azerbaijani: “Oka”
- Basque: “Oka ibaia”
- Belarusian: “Ака (прыток Волгі)”
- Belarusian: “Ака”
- Belarusian: “Рака Ака”
- Bengali: “ওকা নদী”
- Bulgarian: “Ока”
- Catalan: “Okà”
- Cebuano: “Oka”
- Chinese: “奥卡河”
- Chinese: “奧卡河”
- Chinese: “歐卡河”
- Chuvash: “Ока”
- Chuvash: “Хура Атăл”
- Croatian: “Oka”
- Czech: “Oka”
- Danish: “Oka”
- Dutch: “Oka”
- Eastern Mari: “Ока”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر اوكا”
- Erzya: “Йока”
- Esperanto: “Oka-rivero”
- Esperanto: “Oka”
- Esperanto: “Okao”
- Estonian: “Oka”
- Estonian: “Okaa”
- Extremaduran: “Riu Oká”
- Finnish: “Oka”
- French: “Oka”
- Galician: “Río Oka, río Volga”
- Galician: “Río Oka”
- Galician: “río Volga Río Oka”
- Georgian: “ოკა”
- German: “Oka”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Οκά”
- Hebrew: “אוקה”
- Hungarian: “Oka”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Oka”
- Irish: “Abhainn Oka”
- Italian: “Oka”
- Japanese: “オカ川”
- Kazakh: “Ока”
- Kirghiz: “Ока”
- Korean: “오카 강”
- Korean: “오카강”
- Kotava: “Oka (kuksa)”
- Kotava: “Oka”
- Ladin: “Oka (Volga)”
- Ladin: “Oka”
- Latin: “Occa”
- Latvian: “Oka”
- Lithuanian: “Oka”
- Macedonian: “Ока”
- Malayalam: “ഒക നദി”
- Malayalam: “ഒക”
- Marathi: “ओका नदी”
- Mazanderani: “اوکا روخنه”
- Mingrelian: “ოკა”
- Moksha: “Ока”
- Mongolian: “Ока гол”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oka”
- Norwegian: “Oka”
- Ossetian: “Ока”
- Persian: “رود اوکا”
- Polish: “Oka”
- Portuguese: “Rio Oca”
- Portuguese: “Rio Oka”
- Romanian: “Oka”
- Romanian: “Râul Oka”
- Russian: “Ока”
- Russian: “Ока́”
- Scots: “Oka River”
- Serbian: “Oka”
- Serbian: “Ока”
- Serbian: “Река Ока”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oka”
- Sicilian: “Ciumi Oka”
- Sicilian: “Oka”
- Slovak: “Oka”
- Slovenian: “Oka”
- Slovenian: “reka Oka”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوکا چایی”
- Spanish: “Oka”
- Spanish: “Oká”
- Spanish: “Rio Oka”
- Spanish: “Rio Oká”
- Spanish: “Río Oká”
- Sundanese: “Walungan Oka”
- Swahili: “Oka”
- Swedish: “Oka”
- Tatar: “Ока”
- Tatar: “Ука елгасы”
- Tatar: “Ука”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำโอคา”
- Turkish: “Oka Irmağı”
- Turkish: “Oka Nehri”
- Turkish: “Oka”
- Ukrainian: “Ока”
- Upper Sorbian: “Oka”
- Urdu: “آکا (دریا)”
- Urdu: “آکا”
- Uzbek: “Oka”
- Venetian: “Fiume Oká”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Oka”
- Welsh: “Afon Oka”
- Western Frisian: “Oka”
- Wu Chinese: “奥卡河”
- Yue Chinese: “奧卡河”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Gordeyevskiy and Burnakovka.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kanavinskiy Most and Ostrov Grebnevskiye Peski.
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