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Kerch City Council

Kerch

Kerch, is a city on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern . It was decorated by the Soviet Union as a "Hero City" of World War II.
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  • Type: City with 152,000 residents
  • Description: city in Crimea, Ukraine
  • Also known as: “Boğaziçi”, “Kerç”, “Keriç”, and “Pantikápaion”
  • Historically known as: “Bospor” and “Panticapaeum”
  • Address: городской округ Керчь, 98300-98399
  • Postal codes: 98300-98399

Places of Interest

Highlights include Panticapaeum (6c B.C. - 3c A.D.) and Mount Mithridat.

Archaeological site
Photo: PIRZKHGL, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pantikapaion was an ancient Greek city on the eastern shore of , which the Greeks called Taurica. The city lay on the western side of the Cimmerian Bosporus, and was founded by in the late 7th or early 6th century BC, on a hill later named .

Peak
Photo: Clipper, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a large hill located in the center of Kerch, a city on the eastern of . It is 91.4 metres in elevation. From the top of a scenic view spreads across the Strait of Kerch and the city of Kerch.

Church
Photo: Anatoly Shcherbak, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of St John the Baptist is a Christian church located in the city center of Kerch, . Built in the Byzantine architectural style, it is noted for the candy-striping in its façade.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Voykovo and Yehorove.

Village
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is a village.

Village
Photo: Kosun, CC0.
is a village in Lenine Raion, . According to the 2001 Ukrainian census, the native languages of the inhabitants of the village were 89.29% Russian, 8.93% Ukrainian, and 1.79% Belarusian.

Kerch

Latitude
45.3563° or 45° 21′ 23″ north
Longitude
36.4671° or 36° 28′ 1″ east
Population
152,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
KHC
United Nations Location Code
UA KEH
Open location code
8GQR9F48+GR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1830695012
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
706524
Wiki­data ID
Q157065
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kerch” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كرج”
  • Arabic: “كيرتش”
  • Armenian: “Կերչ”
  • Asturian: “Kerch”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kerç”
  • Basque: “Kertx”
  • Belarusian: “Керч”
  • Belarusian: “Пантыкапей”
  • Bengali: “কেচ”
  • Bulgarian: “Керч”
  • Catalan: “Kámenskoe Gorodishche”
  • Catalan: “Kerç”
  • Catalan: “Kertx”
  • Cebuano: “Kerch”
  • Chinese: “克赤”
  • Chinese: “刻赤”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kerç”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Keriç”
  • Croatian: “Kerč”
  • Czech: “Kerč”
  • Czech: “Pantikapion”
  • Danish: “Kertj”
  • Dutch: “Kerç”
  • Dutch: “Kertsj”
  • Eastern Mari: “Керчь”
  • Esperanto: “Kerĉo”
  • Esperanto: “Kere”
  • Estonian: “Kertš”
  • Finnish: “Kerets”
  • Finnish: “Keretş”
  • Finnish: “Kertš”
  • Finnish: “Kertş”
  • Finnish: “Kertshin niemimaa”
  • French: “Kerç”
  • French: “Kertch”
  • Galician: “Kerch”
  • Georgian: “ქერჩი”
  • German: “Kerç”
  • German: “Kertsch”
  • Greek: “Κερτς”
  • Gujarati: “કર્ચ”
  • Hebrew: “קרץ‘”
  • Hebrew: “קרץ’”
  • Hebrew: “קרץ”
  • Hindi: “कर्च”
  • Hungarian: “Kercs”
  • Indonesian: “Kerch”
  • Interlingue: “Kerch”
  • Irish: “Kerch”
  • Italian: “Boğaziçi”
  • Italian: “Kerc‘”
  • Italian: “Kerč‘”
  • Italian: “Kerč’”
  • Italian: “Kerč”
  • Italian: “Kerç”
  • Italian: “Keriç”
  • Italian: “Kertsch”
  • Italian: “Korçev”
  • Japanese: “ケルチ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆರ್ಚ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Керчь”
  • Komi: “Керчь”
  • Korean: “케르치”
  • Kurdish: “Kerş”
  • Ladin: “Kerc”
  • Latin: “Kertschia”
  • Latvian: “Kerča”
  • Lithuanian: “Kerč”
  • Lithuanian: “Kerčas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kerčė”
  • Lithuanian: “Kercis”
  • Lithuanian: “pantikapajonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pantikapėja”
  • Lombard: “Kerč”
  • Lombard: “Kerç”
  • Lombard: “Keriç”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kertsch”
  • Macedonian: “Керч”
  • Malay: “Kerch”
  • Marathi: “केर्च”
  • Mazanderani: “کرچ”
  • Moksha: “Кэрч”
  • Mongolian: “Керчь”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kerç”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Keriç”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kertsj”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kertsj”
  • Norwegian: “Kertsj”
  • Ossetian: “Керчь”
  • Persian: “کرچ”
  • Polish: “Kercz”
  • Pontic: “Κερτς”
  • Portuguese: “Kerch”
  • Portuguese: “Querche”
  • Romanian: “Kerç”
  • Romanian: “Kerci”
  • Russian: “Керич”
  • Russian: “Керчь”
  • Russian: “Пантикапей”
  • Rusyn: “Керч”
  • Scots: “Kerch”
  • Serbian: “Kerč”
  • Serbian: “Керч”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kerč”
  • Sicilian: “Kerč”
  • Sicilian: “Kerç”
  • Sinhala: “කෙර්ච්”
  • Slovenian: “Kerč”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کرچ”
  • Spanish: “Kerch”
  • Spanish: “Panticapea”
  • Swahili: “Kerch”
  • Swedish: “Kerc”
  • Swedish: “Kerç”
  • Swedish: “Kerch”
  • Swedish: “Kertch”
  • Swedish: “Kertj”
  • Swedish: “Kertsch”
  • Swedish: “Kertsj”
  • Swedish: “Korchev”
  • Swedish: “Kortjev”
  • Swedish: “Vosporo”
  • Tajik: “Керч”
  • Talysh: “Kerc”
  • Tamil: “கெர்ச் நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “கெர்ச்”
  • Tatar: “Keriç”
  • Tatar: “Kireç”
  • Tatar: “Киреч”
  • Telugu: “కెర్చ్”
  • Thai: “เคียร์ช”
  • Turkish: “Kerç”
  • Udmurt: “Керчь”
  • Ukrainian: “Боспрор”
  • Ukrainian: “Восперо”
  • Ukrainian: “Воспро”
  • Ukrainian: “Керч”
  • Ukrainian: “Корчев”
  • Ukrainian: “Корчів”
  • Ukrainian: “Пантікапей”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kerč”
  • Urdu: “کرچ”
  • Urdu: “کیرچ”
  • Uzbek: “Kerch”
  • Venetian: “Kerč”
  • Veps: “Kerč”
  • Vietnamese: “Kerch”
  • Walloon: “Keritch”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kerch”
  • Wu Chinese: “刻赤”
  • Yue Chinese: “克赤”

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