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Korolyov

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  • Type: City with 225,000 residents
  • Description: city in Moscow Oblast, Russia
  • Also known as: “Korolev”, “Korolyov, Moscow Oblast”, “Калининский”, and “Подлипки”
  • Historically known as: “Kaliningrad” and “Kalininskiy”
  • Address: городской округ Королёв

Places of Interest

Highlights include Podlipki-Dachnye and Bolshevo railway station.

Railway station
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is a railway station of Yaroslavsky suburban railway line. It is located in the city of Korolyov of . It takes 1 hour 20 minutes to get to the station from the and 35 minutes from station.

Railway station
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is a railway station in , . It is located on the Mytishchi-Fryazino section of the Yaroslavsky suburban railway line. It is part of the Naukograd, or science city, of Korolyov.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mytishchi and Yubileyny.

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is a mid-sized industrial city in , which borders to the southwest. It is perhaps 's principal industrial center, particularly for machinery and armaments.

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was a town in , , located 7 kilometers northeast of the Moscow Ring Road by Yaroslavl Highway, on the Klyazma River. It was merged into the surrounding city of Korolyov effective June 2014. Population: 33,237 ; 30,837 .

Village
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is a village.

Korolyov

Latitude
55.919° or 55° 55′ 8″ north
Longitude
37.815° or 37° 48′ 54″ east
Population
225,000
Elevation
161 metres (528 feet)
Inception
1938
United Nations Location Code
RU KAD
Open location code
9G7VWR98+J2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 191849717
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
554233
Wiki­data ID
Q155309
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yakut—“Korolyov” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوروليوف”
  • Armenian: “Կորոլյով”
  • Asturian: “Koroliov”
  • Azerbaijani: “Korolyov”
  • Bashkir: “Королёв”
  • Basque: “Koroliov”
  • Belarusian: “Каралёў”
  • Bengali: “করোলিয়ভ”
  • Bulgarian: “Корольов”
  • Catalan: “Korolev”
  • Catalan: “Koroliev”
  • Catalan: “Koroliov”
  • Cebuano: “Korolev”
  • Chinese: “Korolyov”
  • Chinese: “科罗廖夫”
  • Chinese: “科羅廖夫”
  • Chuvash: “Королёв”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Korolöv (şeer)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Korolöv”
  • Croatian: “Koroljov”
  • Czech: “Koroljov”
  • Danish: “Koroljov”
  • Dutch: “Koroljov”
  • Eastern Mari: “Королёв (ола)”
  • Eastern Mari: “Королёв”
  • Esperanto: “Korolov”
  • Estonian: “Koroljov”
  • Finnish: “Koroljov”
  • French: “Korolev”
  • German: “Koroljow”
  • Greek: “Κορολιόφ”
  • Gujarati: “કોરોલયોવ”
  • Hebrew: “קורוליוב”
  • Hindi: “कोरोल्योव”
  • Hungarian: “Koroljov”
  • Indonesian: “Korolyov”
  • Italian: “Korolëv”
  • Japanese: “コロリョフ (モスクワ州)”
  • Japanese: “コロリョフ”
  • Kalmyk: “Королёв балһсн”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊರೊಲಿಯೊವ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Королёв (шаар)”
  • Kirghiz: “Королёв”
  • Korean: “코롤료프”
  • Ladin: “Koroliov”
  • Latvian: “Koroļova”
  • Lithuanian: “Koroliovas”
  • Macedonian: “Корољов”
  • Malay: “Korolyov”
  • Marathi: “कॅरोलीओव्ह”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Korolyov (Moscow Chiu)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Koroljov”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Koroljov”
  • Norwegian: “Korolev”
  • Norwegian: “Koroljov”
  • Ossetian: “Королёв”
  • Persian: “کورولیوف”
  • Polish: “Korolow”
  • Portuguese: “Korolev”
  • Portuguese: “Koroliov”
  • Romanian: “Koroliov”
  • Russian: “Калининград” (historical)
  • Russian: “Королёв (город)”
  • Russian: “Королев”
  • Russian: “Королёв”
  • Scots: “Korolyov, Moscow Oblast”
  • Scots: “Korolyov”
  • Serbian: “Корољов”
  • Sinhala: “කොරෝලියෝව්”
  • Slovenian: “Koroljov, Rusija”
  • Slovenian: “Koroljov”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کورولیوو”
  • Spanish: “Koroliov”
  • Swedish: “Koroljov”
  • Tagalog: “Korolyov”
  • Tajik: “Королёв”
  • Talysh: “Koroljov”
  • Tamil: “கொரொலியோவ்”
  • Tatar: “Королёв”
  • Telugu: “కొరోల్యౌ”
  • Thai: “โคโรเลฟ”
  • Turkish: “Korolyov”
  • Ukrainian: “Корольов”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Koroljow (město), Kaliningrad, Kalininskij, Podlipki”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Koroljow”
  • Urdu: “کورولیوو”
  • Veps: “Korolöv (lidn)”
  • Veps: “Korolöv”
  • Vietnamese: “Korolyov”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Korolyov”
  • Western Panjabi: “کارولیو”
  • Yakut: “Королев”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Korolyov”. Photo: Qweasdqwe, CC BY-SA 3.0.