Kirov

Kirov, formerly known as Vyatka until 1934 and as Khlynov from 1457 to 1780, is the largest city and administrative center of , . It is situated on the Vyatka River in , 896 kilometres northeast of .
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Новинская Г., CC BY-SA 4.0.
Klexey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • City with 476,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 179 metres (587 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code KVX
  • …dates from 1181
  • Description: capital of Kirov Oblast, Russia
  • Address: городской округ Киров
  • Also known as
    “Khlynov”
    “Kirov, Kirov Oblast”
    “Vyatka”
    “Wjatka”
Suharyk, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Администрация города Кирова and Roman Catholic church in Kirov.
Cthuttdbx, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town hall.
A.Savin, FAL.
A.Savin, FAL.
is a railway station.

Kirov

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Latitude
58.6036° or 58° 36′ 13″ north
Longitude
49.6666° or 49° 39′ 60″ east
UN/LOCODE
RU KVX
Open location code
9HCFJM38+CJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 113548786
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
548408
Wiki­data ID
Q5384

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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: “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)”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kirov”
  • 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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