Zhigansk
Zhigansk is a rural locality and the administrative center of Zhigansky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Lena River near where it is joined by its tributary the Nuora, approximately 600 kilometers northwest of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic.Photo: Саня Новиков, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 3,400 residents
- Description: town in Russia
- Also known as: “Shigansk”
- Address: Жиганский национальный эвенкийский улус
Places of Interest
Highlights include Zhigansk Airport.
Zhigansk Airport
Aerodrome
Zhigansk Airport is an airport serving the urban locality of Zhigansk, Zhigansky District, in the Sakha Republic of Russia. Zhigansk Airport is situated 3½ km north of Zhigansk.
Zhigansk
- Categories: administrative divisions of Russia and locality
- Location: Zhigansky District, Yakutia, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
66.76564° or 66° 45′ 56″ northLongitude
123.3741° or 123° 22′ 27″ eastPopulation
3,400Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)Inception
1632IATA airport code
ZIXOpen location code
9QR5Q98F+7JOpenStreetMap ID
node 2958944836OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2012530Wikidata ID
Q2621673
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Satellite Map
Discover Zhigansk from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yakut—“Zhigansk” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Zigansk”
- Arabic: “جيغانسك”
- Arabic: “زهيغانسك (ساها)”
- Arabic: “زهيغانسك، ساها”
- Basque: “Zhigansk”
- Belarusian: “Жыганск”
- Bulgarian: “Жиганск”
- Catalan: “Jigansk”
- Cebuano: “Zhigansk”
- Chechen: “Жиганск”
- Chinese: “日甘斯克”
- Crimean Tatar: “Jigansk”
- Czech: “Žigansk”
- Dutch: “Zhigansk”
- Dutch: “Zjigansk”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زهيجانسك”
- Esperanto: “Ĵigansk”
- Esperanto: “Ĵigansko”
- Estonian: “Žigansk”
- Finnish: “Edjigeen”
- Finnish: “Zhigansk”
- Finnish: “Žigansk”
- German: “Schigansk”
- Hungarian: “Zsiganszk”
- Italian: “Žigansk”
- Japanese: “ジガンスク”
- Lithuanian: “Žiganskas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zjigansk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zjigansk”
- Norwegian: “Zjigansk”
- Polish: “Żygańsk”
- Russian: “Жиганск”
- Russian: “Жиганский острог”
- Serbian: “Žigansk”
- Serbian: “Жиганск”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Žigansk”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Жиганск”
- South Azerbaijani: “ژیقانزک، روسیه”
- Ukrainian: “Жиганськ”
- Yakut: “Эдьигээн”
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