Dzerzhinsk
Dzerzhinsk is a city in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located along the Oka River, about 370 kilometers east of Moscow and 35 kilometers west of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: 240,742 ; 261,334 ; 285,071 . It was previously known as Rastyapino.Photo: Pavel.repkin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 213,000 residents
- Description: city in Russia
- Also known as: “Dzerhinsh”, “Dzerzhinsk, Russia”, and “город Дзержинск”
- Historically known as: “Chernorech’ye”, “Chernoye”, and “Rastyapino”
- Postal code: 606000
- Neighbors: Nizhny Novgorod
Places of Interest
Highlights include Resurrection Cathedral (Dzerzhinsk).
Resurrection Cathedral (Dzerzhinsk)
Church
Photo: GTRus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Resurrection Cathedral (Dzerzhinsk) is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Хабарское.
Dzerzhinsk
Latitude
56.2382° or 56° 14′ 18″ northLongitude
43.4617° or 43° 27′ 42″ eastPopulation
213,000Elevation
90 metres (295 feet)Inception
1606United Nations Location Code
RU DZEOpen location code
9H856FQ6+7MOpenStreetMap ID
node 191761177OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
563708Wikidata ID
Q76493
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Dzerzhinsk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Arabic: “دزرز هنسك”
- Arabic: “دزيرجينسك”
- Armenian: “Ձերժինսկ”
- Asturian: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Azerbaijani: “Dzerjinsk”
- Bashkir: “Дзержинск”
- Basque: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Belarusian: “Дзяржынск (Ніжагародзкая вобласьць)”
- Belarusian: “Дзяржынск (Расея)”
- Belarusian: “Дзяржынск”
- Belarusian: “Расьцяпіна”
- Bengali: “ডিজেরিন্সক”
- Bulgarian: “Дзержинск”
- Catalan: “Dzerjinsk”
- Catalan: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Catalan: “Rastiapino”
- Cebuano: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Chinese: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Chinese: “捷尔任斯克”
- Chinese: “捷爾任斯克”
- Crimean Tatar: “Dzerjinsk (Nijniy Novgorod vilâyeti)”
- Crimean Tatar: “Dzerjinsk”
- Croatian: “Dzeržinsk”
- Czech: “Dzeržinsk”
- Danish: “Dzerzjinsk”
- Dari: “دزرژینسک”
- Dutch: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Dutch: “Dzerzjinsk”
- Eastern Mari: “Дзержинск”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دزيرجينسك”
- Erzya: “Дзержинской”
- Esperanto: “Dzerĵinsk”
- Esperanto: “Rastjapino”
- Estonian: “Dzeržinsk”
- Finnish: “Dzeržinsk”
- French: “Dzerjinsk”
- German: “Dserschinsk”
- German: “Dzerzhinsk”
- German: “Rastjapino”
- Greek: “Τζερζίνσκ”
- Gujarati: “ઝેરઝિન્સ્ક”
- Hebrew: “דזיארז’ינסק”
- Hindi: “ज़ेरज़्हीन्सक”
- Hungarian: “Dzerzsinszk”
- Indonesian: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Italian: “Dzeržinsk”
- Japanese: “ジェルジンスク”
- Japanese: “ゼルジンスク”
- Kannada: “ಡ್ಜ್ರ್ಜ್ಹಿನ್ಸ್ಕ್”
- Korean: “제르진스크”
- Ladin: “Dserjinsk”
- Lao: “ດເຊຍຣ໌ຈິນສກ໌ (ປະເທດລັດເຊຍ)”
- Lao: “ດເຊຍຣ໌ຈິນສກ໌”
- Latvian: “Dzeržinska”
- Lithuanian: “Dzeržinskas”
- Lithuanian: “Rastiapinas”
- Malay: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Marathi: “झरझिंक्स”
- Mari (Russia): “Дзержинск”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dzerzhinsk (Lō͘-se-a)”
- Moksha: “Дзержинск”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dzerzjinsk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dzerzjinsk”
- Norwegian: “Dzerzjinsk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dzerzhinsk”
- Ossetian: “Дзержинск”
- Ossetian: “Растяпино”
- Persian: “دزرژینسک، روسیه”
- Polish: “Dzierżynsk”
- Polish: “Dzierżyńsk”
- Portuguese: “Dzerjinsk”
- Portuguese: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Romanian: “Dzerjinsk, Rusia”
- Romanian: “Dzerjinsk”
- Russian: “Дзержинск (Нижегородская область)”
- Russian: “Дзержинск”
- Russian: “Растяпино”
- Russian: “Чёрная Речка”
- Russian: “Чёрное”
- Russian: “Черноречье”
- Scots: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Serbian: “Дзержинск”
- Silesian: “Dźerżinsk (Rusyjo)”
- Silesian: “Dźerżinsk”
- Sinhala: “සෙර්සින්ක්”
- Slovak: “Dzeržinsk”
- Slovenian: “Dzeržinsk”
- South Azerbaijani: “دزرژاینسک”
- Spanish: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Swahili: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Swedish: “Dzerzjinsk”
- Tagalog: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Talysh: “Dzeržinsk (Nižnij Novgorod)”
- Talysh: “Dzeržinsk”
- Tamil: “டிசர்ஹின்ஸ்க்”
- Tatar: “Дзержинск”
- Telugu: “డ్జెర్జ్హింస్క్”
- Thai: “ดเซียร์จินสค์ (ประเทศรัสเซีย)”
- Thai: “ดเซียร์จินสค์”
- Turkish: “Dzerjinsk”
- Ukrainian: “Дзержинськ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Dzeržinsk”
- Urdu: “دزرژینسک، روس”
- Urdu: “دزیرزحینسک”
- Veps: “Dzeržinsk (Venäma)”
- Veps: “Dzeržinsk”
- Vietnamese: “Dzerzhinsk, Nga”
- Vietnamese: “Dzerzhinsk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dzerzhinsk, Rusya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dzerzhinsk”
- Western Panjabi: “دزیرژنسک”
- Wu Chinese: “捷尔任斯克 (下诺夫哥罗德州)”
- Wu Chinese: “捷尔任斯克(下诺夫哥罗德州)”
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