Cherkessk
Cherkessk is the capital city of Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia, as well as its political, economic, and cultural center. Population: 129,069 . 112,782. It was previously known as Batalpashinskaya, Batalpashinsk, Sulimov, Yezhovo-Cherkessk.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 113,000 residents
- Description: city in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic
- Also known as: “Batalpashinsk”, “Yezhovo-Cherkessk”, and “Zhezhoro-Cherkessk”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Psyzh.
Psyzh
Village
Photo: Nuvba, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Psyzh is a rural locality in Abazinsky District of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia. Population: 8,182 ; 6,810 .
Cherkessk
- Categories: administrative divisions of Russia, city or town, big city, and locality
- Location: Karachay-Cherkessia, North Caucasus, Southern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
44.2285° or 44° 13′ 43″ northLongitude
42.0483° or 42° 2′ 54″ eastPopulation
113,000Elevation
544 metres (1,785 feet)Inception
1825United Nations Location Code
RU CKKOpen location code
8HP462HX+C8OpenStreetMap ID
node 191638748OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
569154Wikidata ID
Q5326
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Abaza to Yue Chinese—“Cherkessk” goes by many names.
- Abaza: “Черкес къала”
- Adyghe: “Черкес-къалэ”
- Afrikaans: “Tsjerkessk”
- Arabic: “تشيركيسك”
- Arabic: “شركسك”
- Armenian: “Չերկեսկ”
- Asturian: “Cherkesk”
- Azerbaijani: “Çerkessk”
- Bashkir: “Черкесск”
- Basque: “Txerkessk”
- Belarusian: “Чаркеск”
- Bengali: “সারাকেস্ক”
- Bulgarian: “Черкеск”
- Catalan: “Txerkessk”
- Cebuano: “Cherkessk”
- Chechen: “Черкесск”
- Chinese: “Cherkessk”
- Chinese: “切尔克斯克”
- Chinese: “切爾克斯克”
- Chinese: “車刻斯克”
- Chuvash: “Черкесск”
- Crimean Tatar: “Çerkessk”
- Croatian: “Čerkesk”
- Croatian: “Čerkessk”
- Czech: “Čerkesk”
- Danish: “Tjerkessk”
- Danish: “Tsjerkessk”
- Dimli (individual language): “Cherkessk”
- Dutch: “Tsjerkessk”
- Eastern Mari: “Черкесск”
- Erzya: “Черкесск ош”
- Esperanto: “Ĉerkessk”
- Estonian: “Tšerkessk”
- Finnish: “Tšerkessk”
- French: “Tcherkessk”
- Galician: “Cherkessk”
- Georgian: “ჩერკესკი”
- German: “Tscherkessk”
- Greek: “Τσερκέσκ”
- Gujarati: “ચેર્કેસ્ક”
- Hebrew: “צ’רקסק”
- Hebrew: “צרקסק”
- Hindi: “चेर्केस्स्क”
- Hungarian: “Cserkesszk”
- Indonesian: “Cherkessk”
- Irish: “Cherkessk”
- Italian: “Čerkessk”
- Japanese: “チェルケスク”
- Kabardian: “Шэрджэс къалэ”
- Kalmyk: “Черкесск балһсн”
- Kannada: “ಚೆರ್ಕೆಸ್ಕ್”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Черкесск шахар”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Черкесск”
- Korean: “체르케스크”
- Ladin: “Cerchessk”
- Latvian: “Čerkeska”
- Lithuanian: “Čerkeskas”
- Malay: “Cherkessk”
- Marathi: “चेरकेसेस्क”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cherkessk”
- Mingrelian: “ჩერკესკი”
- Mongolian: “Черкесск”
- Nogai: “Шеркеш шахар”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjerkessk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjerkessk”
- Norwegian: “Tsjerkessk”
- Ossetian: “Черкесск”
- Persian: “چرکسک”
- Polish: “Czerkiesk”
- Portuguese: “Cherkessk”
- Portuguese: “Tcherkessk”
- Pushto: “چېرکېسک”
- Romanian: “Cerkessk”
- Russian: “Баталпашинск”
- Russian: “Баталпашинская”
- Russian: “Ежово-Черкесск”
- Russian: “Пашинка”
- Russian: “станица Баталпашинская”
- Russian: “Сулимов”
- Russian: “Черкесск”
- Scots: “Cherkessk”
- Serbian: “Черкеск”
- Silesian: “Czerkesk”
- Sinhala: “චර්කෙස්ක්”
- Slovak: “Čerkessk”
- Slovenian: “Čerkesk”
- South Azerbaijani: “چرکسک”
- Spanish: “Cherkesk”
- Swahili: “Cherkessk”
- Swedish: “Tjerkessk”
- Tagalog: “Cherkessk”
- Tajik: “Черкесск”
- Talysh: “Cerkessk”
- Talysh: “Çerkessk”
- Tamil: “சேர்க்ஸ்க்”
- Tatar: “Черкесск”
- Telugu: “చెర్కస్క్”
- Thai: “เชียร์เคสสค์”
- Turkish: “Çerkessk”
- Udmurt: “Черкесск”
- Ukrainian: “Черкеськ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Čerkesk”
- Urdu: “چرکیسک”
- Uzbek: “Cherkessk”
- Venetian: “Čerkessk”
- Veps: “Čerkessk”
- Vietnamese: “Cherkessk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cherkessk”
- Western Panjabi: “چرکیسک”
- Wu Chinese: “切尔克斯克”
- Yue Chinese: “車刻斯克”
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