Russia
Central Russia
Moscow Oblast

Sparrow Hills

Sparrow Hills, formerly known as Lenin Hills, is a hill on the right bank of the Moskva River and one of the highest points in , reaching a height of 80 m above the river level.
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  • Type: Neighborhood
  • Description: hills in Moscow
  • Also known as: “Lenin Hills”, “Vorob’yëvy Gory”, and “Воробьёвы Горы”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Trinity Church on Sparrow Hills and University Square.

Church
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Square
Photo: Lesio, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Universitetskaya Square is a big open space in front of the Moscow State University on in district, in the southwest of Moscow. It is one of the biggest squares in the world, covering an area of approximately 130,000 m2.

Metro station
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is a Moscow Metro station. It is on the Sokolnicheskaya Line, between Universitet and stations. Its name originates from a nearby elevated area literally translated as .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Luzhniki and Gagarinsky District.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Suburb
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, Moscow is an administrative district of , and one of the 125 raions of , . The area of the district is 5.50 square kilometers. Population - 72,072. Established in 1995.

Suburb
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is a district in the of the federal city of , , located approximately in the middle-southwest of the city. is situated 2½ km west of Sparrow Hills.

Sparrow Hills

Latitude
55.71018° or 55° 42′ 37″ north
Longitude
37.54421° or 37° 32′ 39″ east
Open location code
9G7VPG6V+3M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2330679958
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Wiki­data ID
Q592880
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Sparrow Hills” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mossiesheuwels”
  • Armenian: “Ճնճղուկի լեռներ”
  • Burmese: “စာကလေးတောင်”
  • Catalan: “Turó dels Pardals”
  • Cebuano: “Vorob’yëvy Gory”
  • Chechen: “Хьозанан гунаш”
  • Chinese: “麻雀山”
  • Czech: “Vrabčí hory”
  • Danish: “Spurvebakkerne”
  • Dutch: “Vorob’yëvy Gory”
  • Dutch: “Vorobjovy Gory”
  • Estonian: “Varblasemäed”
  • French: “colline des moineaux”
  • French: “Colline des Moineaux”
  • Galician: “Cuíña dos Pardais”
  • German: “Sperlingsberge”
  • Hebrew: “גבעת הדרור”
  • Hungarian: “Veréb-hegy”
  • Indonesian: “Bukit Burung Gereja”
  • Italian: “Collina dei passeri”
  • Japanese: “雀が丘”
  • Japanese: “雀ヶ丘”
  • Korean: “참새 언덕”
  • Macedonian: “Врапчешки Ридови”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Spurvehøyden”
  • Norwegian: “Spurvehøyden”
  • Polish: “Wzgórza Worobiowe”
  • Portuguese: “Colina dos Pardais”
  • Russian: “Воробьёвы горы”
  • Serbian: “Врапчева брда”
  • Slovenian: “Vorobjevi Gori”
  • Slovenian: “Vrabčji griči”
  • Spanish: “Colina de los gorriones”
  • Spanish: “Colina de los Gorriones”
  • Spanish: “Vorob’yëvy Gory”
  • Swedish: “Sparvbergen”
  • Turkish: “Serçe Tepeleri”
  • Ukrainian: “Воробйові гори”
  • Urdu: “اسپیرو ہلز”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Skypark Москва and Горнолыжный склон «Воробьёвы горы».

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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 Wikipedia page “Sparrow Hills”. Photo: Niklitov, CC BY-SA 4.0.