Sparrow Hills
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hill with an elevation of 197 metres
- Description: hills in Moscow
- Also known as: “Leinberge”, “Lenin Hills”, “Lenin Mountains”, “Leninskiye Gory”, “Leninskye Gory”, “Vorob’yëvskiye Gory”, “Vorob’yevy Gory”, and “Vorob’yëvy Gory”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Moscow State Circus and Lomonosovskiy prospect.
Moscow State Circus
Theater building
The title Moscow State Circus is used for a variety of circuses. Most commonly, it refers to one of the two circus buildings in Moscow, the "Circus Nikulin" and the "Bolshoi Circus", or to traveling shows which may or may not be directly related to Russia.
Lomonosovskiy prospect
Metro station
Lomonosovsky Prospekt is a station on the Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It opened on 16 March 2017 as part of the line's extension between Park Pobedy and Ramenki.
Embassy of People’s Republic of China
Government office
The Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the Russian Federation is the diplomatic mission of the People's Republic of China in the Russian Federation. It is located at 6 Druzhby Street in the Ramenki District of Moscow.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ramenki District and Lomonosovsky District.
Ramenki District
Suburb
Photo: Insider, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ramenki District is a district in the Western Administrative Okrug of the federal city of Moscow, Russia, located approximately in the middle-southwest of the city.
Lomonosovsky District
Suburb
Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lomonosovsky 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 3.34 square kilometers. Lomonosovsky District is situated 2½ km southeast of Sparrow Hills.
Sparrow Hills
- Categories: neighborhood or historical district of Moscow and landform
- Location: Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Central Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Sparrow Hills” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mossiesheuwels”
- Armenian: “Ճնճղուկի լեռներ”
- Burmese: “စာကလေးတောင်”
- Catalan: “Turó dels Pardals”
- Cebuano: “Vorob’yëvy Gory”
- Chechen: “Хьозанан гунаш”
- Chinese: “麻雀山”
- Czech: “Vrabčí hory”
- Danish: “Spurvebakkerne”
- Dutch: “Vorob’yëvy Gory”
- Dutch: “Vorobjovy Gory”
- Estonian: “Varblasemäed”
- French: “colline des moineaux”
- French: “Colline des Moineaux”
- Galician: “Cuíña dos Pardais”
- German: “Sperlingsberge”
- Hebrew: “גבעת הדרור”
- Hungarian: “Veréb-hegy”
- Indonesian: “Bukit Burung Gereja”
- Italian: “Collina dei passeri”
- Japanese: “雀が丘”
- Japanese: “雀ヶ丘”
- Korean: “참새 언덕”
- Macedonian: “Врапчешки Ридови”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Spurvehøyden”
- Norwegian: “Spurvehøyden”
- Polish: “Wzgórza Worobiowe”
- Portuguese: “Colina dos Pardais”
- Russian: “Воробьёвы горы”
- Russian: “Воробьёвы Горы”
- Serbian: “Врапчева брда”
- Slovenian: “Vorobjevi Gori”
- Slovenian: “Vrabčji griči”
- Spanish: “Colina de los gorriones”
- Spanish: “Colina de los Gorriones”
- Spanish: “Vorob’yëvy Gory”
- Swedish: “Sparvbergen”
- Turkish: “Serçe Tepeleri”
- Ukrainian: “Воробйові гори”
- Urdu: “اسپیرو ہلز”
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