Samar
Samar, formerly known as Novomoskovsk until 2024, is a city and municipality in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine. It serves as the administrative centre of Samar Raion within the oblast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Олегггниколаевич, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 125,000 residents
- Description: town in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of central Ukraine
- Also known as: “Novoselitsa”, “Samar, Ukraine”, “Samar‘”, “Нова Самара”, and “Самарчук”
- Historically known as: “Novomoskovsk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Trinity Cathedral.
Holy Trinity Cathedral
Church
Photo: Mvidyakin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Trinity Cathedral is a church and architectural monument in Samar, Ukraine, the center of the Samara Palanka of the Zaporozhian Sich. It was built in 1772–1781 by the folk architect Yakym Pohribnyak out of wood.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Novoselivka.
Novoselivka
Village
Photo: YegorGeologist, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Novoselivka is a village, which is situated 6 km south of Samar.
Samar
- Categories: city in Ukraine and locality
- Location: Samar Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
48.6317° or 48° 37′ 54″ northLongitude
35.2245° or 35° 13′ 28″ eastPopulation
125,000Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)United Nations Location Code
UA NMKOpen location code
8GWQJ6JF+MROpenStreetMap ID
node 337591160OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Samar” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Նովոմոսկովսկ”
- Armenian: “Սամառ”
- Basque: “Novomoskovsk”
- Belarusian: “Новамаскоўск (Украіна)”
- Belarusian: “Новамаскоўск”
- Belarusian: “Самар”
- Catalan: “Novomoskovs’k”
- Catalan: “Novomoskovsk”
- Cebuano: “Novomoskovs’k”
- Cebuano: “Samar”
- Chechen: “Новомосковск”
- Chechen: “Самарь”
- Chinese: “新莫斯科夫斯克”
- Chinese: “萨马尔”
- Chinese: “薩馬爾”
- Crimean Tatar: “Novomoskovsk”
- Crimean Tatar: “Samar”
- Croatian: “Novomoskovsk” (historical)
- Croatian: “Samar”
- Czech: “Novomoskovsk”
- Czech: “Samar”
- Danish: “Novomoskovsk”
- Danish: “Samar”
- Dutch: “Novomoskovsk”
- Dutch: “Samar”
- Esperanto: “Novomoskovsk”
- Esperanto: “Samar”
- Estonian: “Novomoskovsk (Ukraina)”
- Estonian: “Samar”
- Finnish: “Novomoskovsk (Dnipropetrovskin alue)”
- Finnish: “Samar”
- French: “Samar”
- French: “Novomoskovsk” (historical)
- French: “Samartchyk” (historical)
- Georgian: “ნოვომოსკოვსკი”
- Georgian: “სამარი”
- German: “Samar”
- German: “Nowomoskowsk” (historical)
- Greek: “Νοβομοσκόβσκ”
- Hebrew: “נובומוסקובסק”
- Hungarian: “Novomoszkovszk”
- Hungarian: “Samar”
- Hungarian: “Szamar”
- Irish: “Novomoskovsk”
- Italian: “Novomoskovs’k”
- Japanese: “サマル”
- Japanese: “ノヴォモスコーウシク”
- Japanese: “ノヴォモスコーウソク”
- Korean: “노보모스코우스크”
- Latvian: “Novomoskovska”
- Latvian: “Samara”
- Lithuanian: “Novomoskovskas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Novomoskovsk (Ukraina)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Novomoskovsk i Ukraina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Samar i Ukraina”
- Norwegian: “Novomoskovsk”
- Ossetian: “Новомосковск (Украинæ)”
- Ossetian: “Самар”
- Persian: “نوووموسکوفسک، اوکراین”
- Polish: “Samar”
- Portuguese: “Novomoskovsk”
- Romanian: “Novomoskovsk”
- Romanian: “Samar, Ucraina”
- Romanian: “Samar”
- Russian: “Новомосковск” (historical)
- Russian: “Новоселица”
- Russian: “Самар”
- Russian: “Самарчык”
- Russian: “Самарь”
- Rusyn: “Новомосковск”
- Rusyn: “Самар”
- Serbian: “Новомосковськ”
- Serbian: “Самар”
- Slovenian: “Movomoskovsk”
- Slovenian: “Samar”
- South Azerbaijani: “نوووموسکوفسک، اوکراین”
- Spanish: “Novomoskovsk”
- Spanish: “Novoselitsa”
- Spanish: “Samar”
- Swedish: “Novomoskovsk, Ukraina”
- Swedish: “Novomoskovsk”
- Swedish: “Samar, Ukraina”
- Tatar: “Новомосковск”
- Tatar: “Самар”
- Thai: “นอวอมอสก็อวสก์”
- Ukrainian: “Новомосковськ” (historical)
- Ukrainian: “Новоселиця” (historical)
- Ukrainian: “Самар”
- Ukrainian: “Самарчик” (historical)
- Ukrainian: “Самарь”
- Upper Sorbian: “Nowomoskowsk”
- Upper Sorbian: “Samar”
- Uzbek: “Novomoskovsk, Ukraina”
- Uzbek: “Samar”
- Vietnamese: “Novomoskovsk, Ukraina”
- Vietnamese: “Novomoskovsk”
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