Luzhniki
Luzhniki is a neighborhood in Moscow, Moscow Oblast and has about 30,000 residents. Luzhniki is situated nearby to the neighborhood Sparrow Hills, as well as near the quarter квартал 532.Places of Interest
Highlights include Luzhniki Small Sports Arena and Vorobyovy Gory.
Luzhniki Small Sports Arena
Sports venue
Photo: Arsengeodakov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Luzhniki Small Sports Arena is an 8,700-seat indoor arena that is part of the Luzhniki Sports Complex in Moscow, Russia. The arena was built in 1956 in the Soviet Union.
Vorobyovy Gory
Metro station
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Vorobyovy Gory is a Moscow Metro station. It is on the Sokolnicheskaya Line, between Universitet and Sportivnaya stations. Its name originates from a nearby elevated area literally translated as Sparrow Hills.
Irina Viner-Usmanova Gymnastics Palace
Sports venue
The Irina Viner-Usmanova Gymnastics Palace is a stadium located in the Luzhniki Olympic Complex in Moscow, Russia. Projected by Moscow's head architect Sergey Kuznetsov and financed by billionaire Alisher Usmanov and named after his wife and head gymnastics coach Irina Viner-Usmanova, it was constructed from 2017 to 2019 and was officially opened on 18 June 2019.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sparrow Hills and Gagarinsky District.
Sparrow Hills
Neighborhood
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Sparrow Hills, formerly known as Lenin Hills, is a hill on the right bank of the Moskva River and one of the highest points in Moscow, reaching a height of 80 m above the river level.
Gagarinsky District
Suburb
Photo: Niklitov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gagarinsky District, Moscow is an administrative district of South-Western Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia. The area of the district is 5.50 square kilometers. Population - 72,072. Established in 1995.
Khamovniki District
Suburb
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Khamovniki District is a district of Central Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia. Population: 102,730 ; 97,110 . The district extends from Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge into the Luzhniki bend of Moskva River; northern boundary with Arbat District follows Znamenka Street, Gogolevsky Boulevard, Sivtsev Vrazhek and Borodinsky Bridge.
Luzhniki
- Type: Neighborhood with 30,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Khamovniki District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia
- Categories: neighborhood or historical district of Moscow and locality
- Location: Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Central Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
55.717° or 55° 43′ 1″ northLongitude
37.5517° or 37° 33′ 6″ eastPopulation
30,000Elevation
161 metres (528 feet)Open location code
9G7VPH82+QMOpenStreetMap ID
node 2331513033OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
533067Wikidata ID
Q4268266
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Russian—“Luzhniki” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Luzhniki”
- Cebuano: “Лужники”
- German: “Luschniki”
- Russian: “Лужники (местность)”
- Russian: “Лужники”
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