Balaklava
Balaklava is a settlement on the Crimean Peninsula and part of the city of Sevastopol. It is an administrative center of Balaklavsky District that used to be part of the Crimean Oblast before it was transferred to Sevastopol Municipality. Population: 18,649.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 22,600 residents
- Description: settlement on the Crimean Peninsula
- Also known as: “Balaclava”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Naval museum complex Balaklava and Kadykovsky Quarry.
Naval museum complex Balaklava
Museum
Photo: Russianname, CC BY 3.0.
Naval museum complex Balaklava is an underground submarine base beneath Mount Tavros in Balaklava, Crimea. It was a top-secret military facility during the Cold War, located in Balaklava Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kadikoi and 1st department Zolota balka.
Kadikoi
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kadikoi in the 19th century was a village on the Crimean peninsula, in Ukraine, about one mile north of Balaklava. The Battle of Balaclava was fought on the hills and valleys to the north of Kadikoi in 1854.
Balaklava
- Categories: city, city district in Russia, raion of city in Ukraine, and locality
- Location: Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.5121° or 44° 30′ 44″ northLongitude
33.599° or 33° 35′ 57″ eastPopulation
22,600Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
8GPMGH6X+VJOpenStreetMap ID
node 266318137OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
712930Wikidata ID
Q748363
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Balaklava” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بالاكلافا”
- Arabic: “بلقلاوة”
- Armenian: “Բալակլավա”
- Azerbaijani: “Balaklava”
- Basque: “Balaklava”
- Belarusian: “Балаклава”
- Bulgarian: “Балаклава”
- Catalan: “Balaklava”
- Catalan: “Cèmbalo”
- Cebuano: “Balaklava”
- Chinese: “巴拉克拉瓦”
- Crimean Tatar: “Balıqlava” (historical)
- Crimean Tatar: “Balyglava” (historical)
- Czech: “Balaklava”
- Dutch: “Balaklava”
- Esperanto: “Balaklavo”
- Finnish: “Balaklava”
- French: “Balaclava”
- French: “Balaklava”
- French: “Cembalo”
- German: “Balaclava”
- German: “Balaklava”
- German: “Balaklawa”
- Greek: “Μπαλακλάβα”
- Hebrew: “בלאקלאבה”
- Hebrew: “בלקלאווה”
- Hungarian: “Balaklava (település)”
- Hungarian: “Balaklava”
- Indonesian: “Balaklava”
- Italian: “Balaklava”
- Italian: “Cembalo”
- Japanese: “バラクラーヴァ”
- Japanese: “バラクラーバ”
- Japanese: “バラクラヴァ”
- Japanese: “バラクラバ”
- Korean: “발라클라바”
- Latin: “Balaclava”
- Latvian: “Balaklava”
- Ligurian: “Cénbalo”
- Lithuanian: “Balaklava”
- Macedonian: “Балаклава”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balaklava”
- Norwegian: “Balaklava”
- Persian: “بالاکلاوا (کریمه)”
- Persian: “بالاکلاوا”
- Polish: “Bałakława”
- Portuguese: “Balaclava”
- Portuguese: “Balaklava”
- Romanian: “Balaclava”
- Romanian: “Balaklava”
- Russian: “Балаклава”
- Russian: “Чембало”
- Serbian: “Балаклава”
- Slovenian: “Balaklava, Krim”
- Slovenian: “Balaklava”
- Spanish: “Balaklava”
- Swedish: “Balaclava”
- Swedish: “Balaklava”
- Swiss German: “Balaklawa”
- Talysh: “Balaklava”
- Tosk Albanian: “Balaklawa”
- Turkish: “Balıklava”
- Ukrainian: “Балаклава”
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