Gatchina
Gatchina is the biggest city, and also the center, of Gatchinsky District in Leningrad Oblast. Its population is 92815.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 94,400 residents
- Description: city in Gatchinsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia
- Also known as: “Khotchino”, “Lindemannstadt”, and “Trotsk”
- Historically known as: “Krasnogvardeysk”
- Address: Гатчинский муниципальный округ, 188309
- Postal code: 188309
Places of Interest
Highlights include Great Gatchina Palace and Priory Palace.
Great Gatchina Palace
Museum
Photo: Florstein, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Great Gatchina Palace is a palace in Gatchina, Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It was built from 1766 to 1781 by Antonio Rinaldi for Count Grigori Grigoryevich Orlov, who was a favourite of Catherine the Great, in Gatchina, a suburb of the royal capital Saint Petersburg.
Priory Palace
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Priory Palace is an original palace in the formerly royal town of Gatchina, Leningrad oblast, Northwest Russia, a suburb of Saint Petersburg. It was built in 1799 by the architect Nikolay Lvov on the shore of the Black Lake.
Gatchina-Varshavskaya railway station
Railway station
Photo: Dmitry Fomin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Varshavsky station is one of two railway stations serving the town of Gatchina in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. The name of the station derives from its location on the historic Saint Petersburg–Warsaw railway, whereas the other station in the town, the Baltiysky station, derives its name from its location on the historic Baltic railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Аэродром and Marienburg.
Gatchina
- Categories: city/town in Russia and locality
- Location: Gatchinskiy Rayon, West Leningrad Oblast, Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.568° or 59° 34′ 5″ northLongitude
30.1252° or 30° 7′ 31″ eastPopulation
94,400Elevation
92 metres (302 feet)United Nations Location Code
RU GATOpen location code
9GFGH49G+63OpenStreetMap ID
node 27025179OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Gatchina” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غاتتشينا، لينينغراد”
- Arabic: “غاتتشينا”
- Armenian: “Գատչինա”
- Asturian: “Gatchina”
- Azerbaijani: “Qatçina”
- Bashkir: “Гатчина”
- Basque: “Gatchina”
- Basque: “Gattxina”
- Belarusian: “Гатчына”
- Belarusian: “Краснагвардзейск”
- Belarusian: “Троцк”
- Belarusian: “Хотчына”
- Bulgarian: “Гатчина”
- Catalan: “Gattxina”
- Catalan: “Gàttxina”
- Cebuano: “Gatchina”
- Chechen: “Гатчина”
- Chinese: “Gatchina”
- Chinese: “加特契納”
- Chinese: “加特契纳”
- Church Slavic: “Гатчина”
- Crimean Tatar: “Gatçina”
- Croatian: “Gatčina”
- Czech: “Gatčina”
- Czech: “Krasnogvardějsk”
- Czech: “Trock”
- Danish: “Gattjina”
- Dimli (individual language): “Gatchina”
- Dutch: “Gatsjina”
- Eastern Mari: “Гатчина”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جاتتشينا”
- Esperanto: “Gatĉina”
- Esperanto: “Gatĉino”
- Estonian: “Gatšina”
- Estonian: “Gattšina”
- Finnish: “Hatsina”
- French: “Gatchina”
- French: “Gattchina”
- Georgian: “გატჩინა”
- German: “Gattschina”
- German: “Krasnogwardejsk”
- German: “Trozk”
- German: “Krasnogwardeisk” (historical)
- Greek: “Γκάτσινα”
- Hebrew: “גטצ’ינה”
- Hungarian: “Gatcsina”
- Ido: “Gatchina”
- Irish: “Gatchina”
- Italian: “Gatčina”
- Japanese: “ガッチナ”
- Karelian: “Hatčina”
- Korean: “가치나”
- Ladin: “Gatcina”
- Latin: “Gatschina”
- Latvian: “Gatčina”
- Lithuanian: “Gatčina”
- Macedonian: “Гатчина”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gatchina”
- Moksha: “Гатчина”
- Northern Frisian: “Gattschina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gattsjina”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gattsjina”
- Norwegian: “Gattsjina”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gatchina”
- Ossetian: “Гатчинæ”
- Persian: “گاتچینا”
- Polish: “Gatczyna”
- Portuguese: “Gatchina”
- Romanian: “Gatcina”
- Russian: “Гатчина”
- Russian: “Га́тчина”
- Russian: “Гатчино”
- Russian: “Красногвардейск”
- Russian: “Троцк” (historical)
- Russian: “Хотчино”
- Scots: “Gatchina”
- Serbian: “Гатчина”
- Slovenian: “Gatčina”
- South Azerbaijani: “قاتچینا”
- Spanish: “Gatchina”
- Spanish: “Gátchina”
- Swahili: “Gatchina”
- Swedish: “Gattjina”
- Tagalog: “Gatchina”
- Talysh: “Gatcina”
- Tatar: “Гатчина”
- Thai: “กัตชินา”
- Thai: “กัตชีนา”
- Turkish: “Gatçina”
- Ukrainian: “Гатчина”
- Upper Sorbian: “Gatčina”
- Urdu: “گاتچینا”
- Uzbek: “Gatchina”
- Veps: “Gatčin”
- Vietnamese: “Gatchina”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gatchina”
- Welsh: “Gatchina”
- Western Frisian: “Gattsjina”
- Western Panjabi: “گاتچینا”
- Wu Chinese: “加特契纳”
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