Azov
Azov, previously known as Azak, is a town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, situated on the Don River just 16 kilometers from the Sea of Azov, which derives its name from the town. The population is 81,924 ; 82,937 ; 82,090 ; 80,297 .| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Yaroslav Blanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: Town with 81,900 residents
- Description: town in Rostov Oblast, Russia
- Also known as: “Asof”, “Asoff”, “Asov”, “Azof”, “Azoff”, and “Azov, Russia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Azov Museum of History, Archaeology and Palaeontology and Azov.
Azov Museum of History, Archaeology and Palaeontology
Museum
Photo: Nadezhda1990, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Azov Museum of History, Archaeology and Palaeontology in Azov, Rostov oblast, is a museum reserve in Russia. It is one of the largest museums in the south of Russia, particularly notable for its palaeontological collection.
Azov
Railway station
Azov is a second class cargo-and-passenger railway station in Azov, Rostov oblast, Russia. It is a terminal station for the Rostov-on-Don — Azov railway.
Samoylovitch house, Azov
Museum
Photo: Alexander Roumega, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Samoylovitch house, Azov is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yelizavetinskaya and Kosa.
Yelizavetinskaya
Village
Photo: Alexander Roumega, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yelizavetinskaya is a village, which is situated 4½ km northeast of Azov.
Kosa
Village
Photo: Alexander Roumega, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kosa is a village, which is situated 4 km northeast of Azov.
Obukhovka
Village
Photo: Alexander Roumega, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Obukhovka is a village, which is situated 5 km northeast of Azov.
Azov
- Categories: administrative divisions of Russia, human settlement, port, city or town, and locality
- Location: Rostov Oblast, Southern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.1139° or 47° 6′ 50″ northLongitude
39.426° or 39° 25′ 34″ eastPopulation
81,900Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)Inception
1067United Nations Location Code
RU AZOOpen location code
8GVX4C7G+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 283030477OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
580054Wikidata ID
Q102762
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Azov” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “آزوف”
- Armenian: “Ազով”
- Asturian: “Azov”
- Azerbaijani: “Azov”
- Bashkir: “Аҙау”
- Basque: “Azov”
- Belarusian: “Азоў”
- Bosnian: “Azov”
- Bulgarian: “Азов”
- Catalan: “Azov”
- Cebuano: “Azov”
- Chechen: “Азов”
- Chinese: “Azov”
- Chinese: “亚速”
- Chinese: “亞速”
- Crimean Tatar: “Azaq (şeer)”
- Crimean Tatar: “Azaq”
- Croatian: “Azov”
- Czech: “Azov”
- Danish: “Azov”
- Dutch: “Azov”
- Egyptian Arabic: “آزوف”
- Esperanto: “Azov”
- Estonian: “Azov”
- Finnish: “Azov”
- French: “Azov”
- Galician: “Azov”
- Georgian: “აზოვი”
- German: “Asow”
- Greek: “Αζόφ”
- Hebrew: “אזוב”
- Hungarian: “Azov”
- Icelandic: “Asov”
- Icelandic: “Azov”
- Ido: “Azov”
- Indonesian: “Azov”
- Irish: “Azov”
- Italian: “Azov”
- Japanese: “アゾフ”
- Kalmyk: “Азов балһсн”
- Korean: “아조프”
- Ladin: “Asov”
- Latin: “Asovia”
- Latvian: “Azova”
- Limburgan: “Azov”
- Lithuanian: “Azovas”
- Macedonian: “Азов”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Azov”
- Moksha: “Азов”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Azov”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Azov”
- Norwegian: “Azov”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Azov”
- Ossetian: “Азов”
- Persian: “آزف”
- Persian: “آزوف”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Azov”
- Polish: “Azow”
- Portuguese: “Azov”
- Portuguese: “Azove”
- Romanian: “Azov”
- Russian: “Азак”
- Russian: “Азов”
- Russian: “Азо́в”
- Russian: “Тана”
- Scots: “Azov”
- Serbian: “Азов”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Azov”
- Slovenian: “Azov”
- South Azerbaijani: “آزوف”
- Spanish: “Azof”
- Spanish: “Azoff”
- Spanish: “Azov (ciudad de Rusia)”
- Spanish: “Azov (ciudad rusa)”
- Spanish: “Azov (ciudad)”
- Spanish: “Azov (Rusia)”
- Spanish: “Azov”
- Spanish: “azovita”
- Spanish: “azovitas”
- Swedish: “Azov”
- Tagalog: “Azov”
- Tajik: “Азов”
- Talysh: “Azov”
- Tamil: “அசோவ்”
- Tatar: “Азак”
- Turkish: “Azak”
- Turkish: “Azov”
- Ukrainian: “Азов”
- Ukrainian: “Озів”
- Upper Sorbian: “Azow”
- Urdu: “ازوف”
- Uzbek: “Azov”
- Veps: “Azov”
- Vietnamese: “Azov”
- Waray (Philippines): “Azov”
- Western Frisian: “Azov”
- Western Panjabi: “ازوف”
- Wu Chinese: “亚速”
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