Kirov
Kirov, formerly known as Vyatka until 1934 and as Khlynov from 1457 to 1780, is the largest city and administrative center of Kirov Oblast, Russia. It is situated on the Vyatka River in European Russia, 896 kilometres northeast of Moscow.
- Type: City with 476,000 residents
- Description: capital of Kirov Oblast, Russia
- Also known as: “Khlynov”, “Kirov, Kirov Oblast”, “Vyatka”, and “Wjatka”
- Address: городской округ Киров
Photo: Suharyk, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights include Администрация города Кирова and Roman Catholic church in Kirov.
Kirov
- Categories: city or town, big city, and locality
- Location: Kirovo-Chepetsky District, Kirov Oblast, Volga Region, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
58.6036° or 58° 36′ 13″ north
Longitude
49.6666° or 49° 39′ 60″ east
Population
476,000
Elevation
179 metres (587 feet)
Inception
1181
IATA airport code
KVX
United Nations Location Code
RU KVX
Open location code
9HCFJM38+CJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kirov” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kirof”
- Amharic: “ኪሮቭ”
- Arabic: “كيروف، كيروف أوبلاست”
- Arabic: “كيروف”
- Armenian: “Կիրով”
- Asturian: “Kírov”
- Azerbaijani: “Kirov”
- Bashkir: “Вятка”
- Bashkir: “Киров”
- Basque: “Kirov”
- Belarusian: “Вятка”
- Belarusian: “Кіраў (Кіраўская вобласьць)”
- Belarusian: “Кіраў”
- Belarusian: “Хлынаў”
- Bengali: “কিরোভ”
- Bulgarian: “Киров”
- Catalan: “Khlinov”
- Catalan: “Kírov”
- Catalan: “Viatka”
- Cebuano: “Kirov”
- Chechen: “Киров”
- Chinese: “Kirov”
- Chinese: “基洛夫”
- Church Slavic: “Вѧтька · градъ”
- Chuvash: “Киров”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kirov”
- Croatian: “Kirov”
- Czech: “Chlynov”
- Czech: “Kirov”
- Czech: “Vjatka”
- Danish: “Kirov”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kirov”
- Dutch: “Kirov”
- Eastern Mari: “Киров”
- Erzya: “Киров ош”
- Esperanto: “Kirov”
- Esperanto: “Vjatka (antaŭe)”
- Estonian: “Kirov”
- Finnish: “Kirov”
- French: “Kirov”
- French: “Viatka”
- Galician: “Kirov”
- Georgian: “კიროვი”
- German: “Kirow”
- Greek: “Βιάτκα”
- Greek: “Κίροφ”
- Gujarati: “કિરોવ”
- Hausa: “Kirov”
- Hebrew: “ויאטקה”
- Hebrew: “חלינוב”
- Hebrew: “קירוב”
- Hindi: “किरोव”
- Hindi: “कीरॉफ़”
- Hungarian: “Kirov”
- Indonesian: “Kirov”
- Irish: “Kirov”
- Italian: “Kirov”
- Japanese: “キーロフ”
- Japanese: “キーロフ州”
- Javanese: “Kirov”
- Kannada: “ಕಿರೋವ್”
- Kazakh: “Киров”
- Kirghiz: “Киров”
- Kölsch: “Kirow”
- Komi: “Киров”
- Korean: “키로프”
- Ladin: “Kirov”
- Latin: “Kirov”
- Latvian: “Kirova”
- Lithuanian: “Kirovas”
- Low German: “Kirow”
- Luxembourgish: “Kirow”
- Malay: “Kirov”
- Marathi: “किरोव”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kirov (Kirov Chiu)”
- Moksha: “Киров”
- Mongolian: “Киров”
- Northern Frisian: “Kirow (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Kirow”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kirov (Kirov oblast)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kirov”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kirov i Kirov oblast”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kirov”
- Norwegian: “Kirov”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kirov”
- Oromo: “Kirov”
- Ossetian: “Киров”
- Panjabi: “ਕੀਰੋਵ”
- Persian: “کیروف”
- Polish: “Kirow”
- Portuguese: “Kirov”
- Pushto: “کيروف”
- Pushto: “کیروف”
- Romanian: “Kirov”
- Russia Buriat: “Киров”
- Russian: “Вятка”
- Russian: “Киров”
- Russian: “Хлынов”
- Scots: “Kirov”
- Serbian: “Киров”
- Silesian: “Kirow”
- Sinhala: “කිරෝව්”
- Slovak: “Kirov”
- Slovenian: “Kirov, Kirovska oblast”
- Slovenian: “Kirov”
- Somali: “Kirov”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیروف”
- Spanish: “Kirov”
- Spanish: “Kírov”
- Swahili: “Kirov, Kirov Oblast”
- Swahili: “Kirov”
- Swedish: “Chlynov”
- Swedish: “Kirov, Kirov oblast”
- Swedish: “Kirov”
- Swedish: “Vjatka”
- Tagalog: “Kirov”
- Tajik: “Киров”
- Talysh: “Kirov”
- Tamil: “கிரோவ்”
- Tatar: “Киров”
- Telugu: “కిరోస్”
- Thai: “คีรอฟ”
- Turkish: “Kirov”
- Udmurt: “Киров”
- Ukrainian: “Вятка”
- Ukrainian: “Кіров”
- Ukrainian: “Хлинов”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kirow”
- Urdu: “کیروف، کیروف اوبلاست”
- Uzbek: “Kirov”
- Venetian: “Kirov”
- Veps: “Kirov”
- Vietnamese: “Kirov”
- Volapük: “Kirov”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kirov, Kirov Oblast”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kirov”
- Welsh: “Kirov”
- Western Frisian: “Kirov (oblast Kirov)”
- Western Frisian: “Kirov”
- Western Panjabi: “کیروو”
- Wu Chinese: “基洛夫 (基洛夫州)”
- Wu Chinese: “基洛夫（基洛夫州）”
- Yue Chinese: “基洛夫”
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