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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 475,000 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 Kirov-Kotlasskiy.
Администрация города Кирова
Town hall
Photo: Cthuttdbx, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Администрация города Кирова is a town hall.
Kirov
- Categories: city or town, big city, and locality
- Location: Kirovo-Chepetsky District, Kirov Oblast, Volga Region, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.6036° or 58° 36′ 13″ northLongitude
49.6666° or 49° 39′ 60″ eastPopulation
475,000Elevation
179 metres (587 feet)Inception
1181IATA airport code
KVXUnited Nations Location Code
RU KVXOpen location code
9HCFJM38+CJOpenStreetMap ID
node 113548786OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kirov” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kirof”
- 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”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “ויאטקה”
- Hebrew: “חלינוב”
- Hebrew: “קירוב”
- Hindi: “कीरॉफ़”
- Hungarian: “Kirov”
- Indonesian: “Kirov”
- Irish: “Kirov”
- Italian: “Kirov”
- Japanese: “キーロフ”
- Japanese: “キーロフ州”
- Kannada: “ಕಿರೋವ್”
- 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”
- Ossetian: “Киров”
- Persian: “کیروف”
- Polish: “Kirow”
- Portuguese: “Kirov”
- Pushto: “کيروف”
- Romanian: “Kirov”
- Russia Buriat: “Киров”
- Russian: “Вятка”
- Russian: “Киров”
- Russian: “Хлынов”
- Scots: “Kirov”
- Serbian: “Киров”
- Sinhala: “කිරෝව්”
- Slovak: “Kirov”
- Slovenian: “Kirov, Kirovska oblast”
- Slovenian: “Kirov”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیروف”
- Spanish: “Kirov”
- Spanish: “Kírov”
- Swahili: “Kirov, Kirov Oblast”
- Swedish: “Chlynov”
- Swedish: “Kirov, Kirov oblast”
- Swedish: “Kirov”
- Swedish: “Vjatka”
- Tagalog: “Kirov, Kirov Oblast”
- 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 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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