Istra
Istra is a town and the administrative center of Istrinsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Istra River, 40 kilometers west of Moscow, on the Moscow–Riga railway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Юлия 70, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 35,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Istrinsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia
- Also known as: “Istra, Istrinsky District, Moscow Oblast” and “Воскресенск”
- Address: городской округ Истра
Places of Interest
Highlights include New Jerusalem Monastery and New Jerusalem museum.
New Jerusalem Monastery
Monastery
Photo: Andrei Kolesnikov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Resurrection Monastery or New Jerusalem Monastery is a major monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow Oblast, Russia. The Voskresensky Monastery has given rise to the eponymous village, which has grown into the town of Voskresensk.
Novoierusalimskaya
Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Novoierusalimskaya is a railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pervomayskiy (Istrinsky District) and Severniy.
Pervomayskiy (Istrinsky District)
Village
Pervomayskiy (Istrinsky District) is a village, which is situated 4 km west of Istra.
Istra
- Categories: city or town and locality
- Location: West Moscow Oblast, Moscow Oblast, Central Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
55.9146° or 55° 54′ 53″ northLongitude
36.8595° or 36° 51′ 34″ eastPopulation
35,000Elevation
175 metres (574 feet)United Nations Location Code
RU ISTOpen location code
9G7RWV75+RROpenStreetMap ID
node 253438739OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yakut—“Istra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيسترا”
- Azerbaijani: “İstra”
- Belarusian: “Істра”
- Catalan: “Istra”
- Cebuano: “Istra”
- Chechen: “Истра”
- Chinese: “Istra”
- Chinese: “伊斯特拉”
- Chuvash: “Истра”
- Crimean Tatar: “İstra (şeer)”
- Crimean Tatar: “İstra”
- Croatian: “Istra”
- Czech: “Istra”
- Czech: “Voskresensk”
- Czech: “Voskresenskoje”
- Danish: “Istra”
- Dutch: “Istra”
- Esperanto: “Istra”
- Estonian: “Istra”
- Finnish: “Istra”
- French: “Istra”
- German: “Istra”
- Greek: “Ίστρα”
- Hungarian: “Istra”
- Italian: “Istra”
- Japanese: “イストラ”
- Kalmyk: “Истра балһсн”
- Korean: “이스트라 (모스크바 주)”
- Korean: “이스트라”
- Latvian: “Istra (pilsēta)”
- Latvian: “Istra”
- Lithuanian: “Istra”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Istra (Istrinsky Koān, Moscow Chiu)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Istra”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Istra”
- Norwegian: “Istra”
- Ossetian: “Истрæ”
- Persian: “ایسترا”
- Polish: “Istra”
- Portuguese: “Istra”
- Romanian: “Istra”
- Russian: “город Истра”
- Russian: “Истра”
- Russian: “И́стра”
- Scots: “Istra”
- Serbian: “Истра (град)”
- Serbian: “Истра”
- Slovenian: “Istra, Rusija”
- Slovenian: “Istra”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایسترا”
- Spanish: “Istra”
- Swedish: “Istra”
- Tagalog: “Istra”
- Tajik: “Истра”
- Talysh: “Istra”
- Tatar: “Истра”
- Turkish: “Istra”
- Turkish: “İstra”
- Ukrainian: “Істра (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Істра”
- Upper Sorbian: “Istra”
- Veps: “Istr (lidn)”
- Veps: “Istr”
- Waray (Philippines): “Istra”
- Western Panjabi: “ایسترا”
- Yakut: “Истра”
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