Elista
Elista is the capital of Kalmykia in Russia, containing many Buddhist temples, monasteries and architecture.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 103,000 residents
- Description: city in the Kalmyk Republic, Russia
- Also known as: “Stepnoi” and “Stepnoy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bahatr Basangov State Kalmyk Dramatic Theatre and Национальный музей имени Н.Н.Пальмова.
Bahatr Basangov State Kalmyk Dramatic Theatre
Theater building
Bahatr Basangov State Kalmyk Dramatic Theatre is a theater building.
Национальный музей имени Н.Н.Пальмова
Museum
Photo: Rartat, Public domain.
Национальный музей имени Н.Н.Пальмова is a museum.
Rodina cinema, Elista
Movie theater
Photo: Rartat, Public domain.
Rodina cinema, Elista is a movie theater.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chess City.
Chess City
Neighborhood
Photo: Rartat, Public domain.
Chess City is a large complex devoted to chess and chess competitions located east of Elista, Kalmykia, in Russia. The neighborhood-size development consists of a central, four-story domed City Chess Hall surrounded by an Olympic-style village of Californian-Mediterranean Revival Style architecture.
Elista
- Categories: administrative divisions of Russia, city or town, big city, and locality
- Location: Kalmykia, Southern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.3073° or 46° 18′ 26″ northLongitude
44.2692° or 44° 16′ 9″ eastPopulation
103,000Elevation
94 metres (308 feet)Inception
1865IATA airport code
ESLUnited Nations Location Code
RU ESLOpen location code
8HR68749+WMOpenStreetMap ID
node 191648647OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Elista” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Elista”
- Arabic: “إيليستا”
- Armenian: “Էլիստա”
- Asturian: “Elistá”
- Avaric: “Элиста”
- Azerbaijani: “Elista”
- Bashkir: “Элиста”
- Basque: “Elista”
- Belarusian: “Эліста”
- Bengali: “ইলিস্টা”
- Breton: “Elista”
- Breton: “Elst”
- Bulgarian: “Елиста”
- Catalan: “Elistà”
- Catalan: “Elst”
- Cebuano: “Elista”
- Central Kurdish: “ئیلیستا”
- Chechen: “Элиста”
- Chinese: “Elista”
- Chinese: “埃利斯塔”
- Chinese: “艾利斯塔”
- Chuvash: “Элиста”
- Crimean Tatar: “Elista”
- Croatian: “Elista”
- Czech: “Elista”
- Danish: “Elista”
- Dimli (individual language): “Elista”
- Dutch: “Elista”
- Eastern Mari: “Элиста”
- Erzya: “Элиста ош”
- Esperanto: “Elista”
- Estonian: “Elista”
- Finnish: “Elista”
- French: “Elista”
- Galician: “Elista”
- Georgian: “ელისტა”
- German: “Elista”
- Greek: “Ελίστα”
- Gujarati: “એલિસ્ટા”
- Hawaiian: “Elīka”
- Hebrew: “אליסטה”
- Hindi: “एलिस्ता”
- Hungarian: “Eliszta”
- Ido: “Elista”
- Indonesian: “Elista”
- Irish: “Elista”
- Italian: “Ėlista”
- Japanese: “エリスタ”
- Javanese: “Elista”
- Kalmyk: “Элст балһсн”
- Kannada: “ಎಲಿಸ್ತಾ”
- Kazakh: “Элиста”
- Kirghiz: “Элиста”
- Komi: “Элиста”
- Korean: “옐리스타”
- Ladin: “Elista”
- Latin: “Elista”
- Latvian: “Elista”
- Lithuanian: “Elista”
- Lower Sorbian: “Elista”
- Malay: “Elista”
- Marathi: “एलिस्टा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Elista”
- Mingrelian: “ელისტა”
- Moksha: “Элиста”
- Mongolian: “Элст”
- Northern Frisian: “Elista”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Elista”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elista”
- Norwegian: “Elista”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Elista”
- Ossetian: “Элиста”
- Persian: “الیستا”
- Polish: “Elista”
- Portuguese: “Elista”
- Pushto: “اليستا”
- Romanian: “Elista”
- Russia Buriat: “Элһэтэ”
- Russian: “Степной”
- Russian: “Элиста”
- Scots: “Elista”
- Serbian: “Елиста”
- Silesian: “Elista”
- Sinhala: “එලිස්ටා”
- Slovak: “Elista”
- Slovenian: “Elista”
- South Azerbaijani: “الیستا”
- Spanish: “Elista”
- Spanish: “Elistá”
- Swahili: “Elista”
- Swedish: “Elista”
- Tagalog: “Elista”
- Talysh: “Elista”
- Tamil: “எலிஸ்டா”
- Tatar: “Әлиста”
- Tatar: “Элиста”
- Telugu: “ఎలిస్తా”
- Thai: “เอลิสตา”
- Turkish: “Elista”
- Udmurt: “Элиста”
- Ukrainian: “Еліста”
- Upper Sorbian: “Elista”
- Urdu: “الیستا”
- Uzbek: “Elista”
- Venetian: “Ėlista”
- Veps: “Elist”
- Vietnamese: “Elista”
- Waray (Philippines): “Elista”
- Welsh: “Elista”
- Western Frisian: “Elista”
- Western Panjabi: “ایلیستا”
- Wu Chinese: “埃利斯塔”
- Yakut: “Элиста”
- Yue Chinese: “埃利斯塔”
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