Kursk Oblast
Kursk Oblast is a region in Russia's Chernozemye region, bordering Ukraine to the west, Bryansk Oblast to the northwest, Oryol Oblast to the north, Lipetsk Oblast to the northeast, Voronezh Oblast to the east, and Belgorod Oblast to the south.Photo: Alexxx1979, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Top destinations include Kursk and Svoboda.
Kursk
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Kursk is the capital of the Kursk Oblast in the Western part of Russia known as Chernozemye region. The millenuim-old city of nightingale song.
Svoboda
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Svoboda is a very small town in Kursk Oblast, 30 km northeast of the provincial capital, Kursk. A highlight of the region is the Kursk Root Hermitage, or "Korennaya Hermitage", one of the most famous monasteries of the Black Earth region.
Kursk Oblast
- Type: State with 1,050,000 residents
- Description: federal subject of Russia
- Neighbors: Belgorod Oblast, Bryansk Oblast, Lipetsk Oblast, Oryol Oblast, and Voronezh Oblast
- Categories: oblast of Russia, federal subject of Russia, and locality
- Location: Chernozemye, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
51.6568° or 51° 39′ 25″ northLongitude of center
36.4853° or 36° 29′ 7″ eastPopulation
1,050,000Elevation
175 metres (574 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 792588865OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kursk Oblast” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Oblast Kursk”
- Afrikaans: “Koersk-oblast”
- Albanian: “Rajoni i Kurskut”
- Amharic: “ኩርስክ ኦብላስት”
- Arabic: “كورسك أوبلاست”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كورسك”
- Armenian: “Կուրսկի մարզ”
- Asturian: “Óblast de Kursk”
- Azerbaijani: “Kursk vilayəti”
- Bashkir: “Курск өлкәһе”
- Basque: “Kursk oblasta”
- Belarusian: “Курская вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Курская вобласьць”
- Bengali: “কুরস্ক ওব্লাস্ট”
- Bosnian: “Kurska oblast”
- Breton: “Oblast Koursk”
- Bulgarian: “Курска област”
- Catalan: “óblast de Kursk”
- Catalan: “Óblast de Kursk”
- Catalan: “província de Kursk”
- Catalan: “Província de Kursk”
- Cebuano: “Kurskaya Oblast‘”
- Cebuano: “Kurskaya Oblast’”
- Chechen: “Курскан область”
- Chinese: “Kursk Chiu”
- Chinese: “库尔斯克州”
- Chinese: “庫爾斯克州”
- Chuvash: “Курск облаçĕ”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kursk vilâyeti”
- Croatian: “Kurska oblast”
- Czech: “Kurská oblast”
- Danish: “Kursk oblast”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kursk”
- Dutch: “Koersk”
- Dutch: “Oblast Koersk”
- Eastern Mari: “Курск вел”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كورسك”
- Erzya: “Курскоень ёнкс”
- Esperanto: “Kurska provinco”
- Estonian: “Kurski oblast”
- Finnish: “Kurskin alue”
- French: “Koursk”
- French: “oblast de Koursk”
- French: “Oblast de Koursk”
- French: “région de Koursk”
- Georgian: “კურსკის ოლქი”
- German: “Kursk”
- German: “Oblast Kursk”
- Greek: “Όμπλαστ του Κουρσκ”
- Gujarati: “કુર્સ્ક ઓબ્લાસ્ટ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kursk-chû”
- Hausa: “Kursk Oblast”
- Hebrew: “מחוז קורסק”
- Hebrew: “קורסק”
- Hindi: “कुर्सक ओब्लास्ट”
- Hindi: “कुर्स्क ओब्लास्ट”
- Hungarian: “Kurszki terület”
- Icelandic: “Kúrskfylki”
- Ido: “Provinco Kursk”
- Indonesian: “Oblast Kursk”
- Interlingue: “Oblast Kursk”
- Irish: “Cúige Kursk”
- Italian: “oblast‘ di Kursk”
- Italian: “Oblast’ di Kursk”
- Japanese: “クルスク州”
- Javanese: “Kursk Oblast”
- Kabardian: “Курск област”
- Kalmyk: “Курска төгәлң”
- Kannada: “ಕುರ್ಸ್ಕ್ ಒಬ್ಲಾಸ್ಟ್”
- Kazakh: “Курск облысы”
- Kirghiz: “Курск облусу”
- Komi: “Курск обласьт”
- Korean: “쿠르스크주”
- Ladin: “Oblast de Kursk”
- Latin: “Regio Kurschensis”
- Latvian: “Kurskas apgabals”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Oblast de Cursc”
- Lithuanian: “Kursko sritis”
- Lombard: “Oblast de Kursk”
- Macedonian: “Курска Област”
- Malay: “Wilayah Kursk”
- Marathi: “कुर्स्क ओब्लास्त”
- Mazanderani: “کورسک اوبلاست”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Kursk Ciŭ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kurskaya Chiu”
- Mingrelian: “კურსკიშ ოლქი”
- Moksha: “Курсконь аймак”
- Mongolian: “Курск муж”
- Northern Frisian: “Kursk (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Kursk”
- Northern Luri: “آستون کورسک”
- Northern Sami: “Kursk oblast”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kursk oblast”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kursk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kursk oblast”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kursk”
- Norwegian: “Kursk oblast”
- Norwegian: “Kurskaja oblast”
- Oromo: “Moosakoota Kursk”
- Ossetian: “Курсчы облæст”
- Pampanga: “Kursk Oblast”
- Panjabi: “ਕੁਰਸਕ ਓਬਲਾਸਟ”
- Persian: “استان کورسک”
- Persian: “اوبلاست کورسک”
- Polish: “obwód kurski”
- Polish: “Obwód kurski”
- Portuguese: “Oblast de Kursk”
- Pushto: “کورسک ولايت”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Kursk”
- Russian: “Курская область”
- Russian: “Курская Область”
- Rusyn: “Курьска область”
- Scots: “Kursk Oblast”
- Serbian: “Kurska oblast”
- Serbian: “Курска област”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kurska oblast”
- Sindhi: “ڪُرسڪ اوبلاسٽ”
- Sinhala: “කර්ස්ක් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Kurská oblasť”
- Slovenian: “Kurska oblast”
- Somali: “Kursk Oblast”
- South Azerbaijani: “کورسک اوبلاستی”
- Spanish: “oblast de Kursk”
- Spanish: “óblast de Kursk”
- Spanish: “Óblast de Kursk”
- Swahili: “Kursk Oblast”
- Swedish: “Kursk oblast”
- Swedish: “Kursk”
- Tagalog: “Kursk Oblast”
- Tagalog: “Oblast ng Kursk”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Курск”
- Talysh: “Kursk məhol”
- Talysh: “Kurski vilojət”
- Tamil: “குர்ஸ்க் ஒப்ளாஸ்ட்”
- Tamil: “கூர்சுக் மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “கூர்ஸ்க் ஒப்லாஸ்து”
- Tatar: “Курск өлкәсе”
- Telugu: “కుర్సుక్ ఓబ్లాస్ట్”
- Thai: “แคว้นคูสค์”
- Turkish: “Kursk Oblastı”
- Udmurt: “Курск улос”
- Ukrainian: “Курська область”
- Upper Sorbian: “Oblasć Kursk”
- Urdu: “کورسک اوبلاست”
- Uzbek: “Kursk viloyati”
- Uzbek: “Kursk Viloyati”
- Veps: “Kurskan agj”
- Vietnamese: “Kursk”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Kursk”
- Vlaams: “Oblast Koursk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kursk Oblast”
- Welsh: “Oblast Kursk”
- Western Frisian: “Koersk (oblast)”
- Western Frisian: “Koersk”
- Western Panjabi: “کورسک اوبلاست”
- Wu Chinese: “库尔斯克州”
- Yakut: “Курскай уобалас”
- Yue Chinese: “庫爾斯克州”
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