Leningrad

Hero City is a Soviet honorary title awarded for outstanding heroism during World War II. It was awarded to twelve cities of the Soviet Union, today located in , , and . in Belarus was awarded the equivalent title of Hero Fortress.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: honorary title for cities in the Soviet Union
  • Also known as: “Hero City” and “Hero City of the Soviet Union”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Milliy Stadium and Yuri Gagarin (Kedr).

Stadium
Photo: Прикли, CC BY 4.0.
The , formerly known as the Bunyodkor Stadium, is a football in the city of — the capital of . Located in of Tashkent, on Bunyodkor Avenue. is situated 2 km northwest of Leningrad.

Photo: Lisaveta84, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 1½ km northwest of Leningrad.

Railway station
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is a railway station, which is situated 1½ km east of Leningrad.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include ‘Tashkent City’ business center and Tashkent.

Neighborhood
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Tashkent City is a business center under construction in . Located in the district, between Alisher Navoi Avenue, Olmazor, Furkat streets and Islam Karimov Avenue. is situated 5 km north of Leningrad.

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is the capital and largest city of , with a population of just over 3 million in 2024. It was an ancient city on the Silk Road, the network of trading routes between China and Europe, but what you see now is mostly modern - it was wrecked by an earthquake in 1966 and rebuilt in Soviet style, with humdrum medium-raise lining interminable boulevards.

Town
is an urban-type settlement in , . It is part of . The town population in 1989 was 6,386 people. is situated 7 km west of Leningrad.

Leningrad

Latitude
41.26965° or 41° 16′ 11″ north
Longitude
69.23285° or 69° 13′ 58″ east
Open location code
8JHF769M+V4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9720647822
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Wiki­data ID
Q159438
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Leningrad” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “المدينة البطلة”
  • Arabic: “مدينة بطلة”
  • Armenian: “Հերոս քաղաք”
  • Armenian: “Հերոս”
  • Asturian: “Ciudá Heroica”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qəhrəman şəhər”
  • Bashkir: “Герой-ҡалалар”
  • Belarusian: “гарады-героі”
  • Belarusian: “Гарады-героі”
  • Belarusian: “Горад-герой СССР”
  • Belarusian: “горад-герой”
  • Belarusian: “места-герой”
  • Bulgarian: “Град герой”
  • Bulgarian: “Град-герой”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat heroica”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat Heroica”
  • Catalan: “Ciutats heroiques”
  • Chinese: “英雄城市”
  • Chinese: “英雄都市”
  • Church Slavic: “Ирѡи градъ”
  • Croatian: “Gradovi heroji SSSR-a”
  • Czech: “město-hrdina”
  • Czech: “Město-hrdina”
  • Danish: “helteby”
  • Danish: “Helteby”
  • Dutch: “Heldenstad van de Sovjet-Unie”
  • Dutch: “Heldenstad”
  • Esperanto: “Urbo-Heroo”
  • Estonian: “kangelaslinn”
  • Finnish: “Neuvostoliiton sankarikaupungit”
  • Finnish: “Sankarikaupungin obeliski”
  • Finnish: “Sankarikaupunki”
  • French: “ville héroïque de l’Union soviétique”
  • French: “Ville héros”
  • French: “Villes Héros”
  • Galician: “Cidade heroica”
  • Georgian: “გმირი ქალაქები”
  • German: “Heldenstadt der Sowjetunion”
  • German: “Heldenstadt”
  • Greek: “Ηρωική Πόλη”
  • Hebrew: “עיר גיבורה”
  • Hindi: “हीरो शहर (सोवियत संघ)”
  • Hindi: “हीरो शहर”
  • Hungarian: “Hős város”
  • Italian: “Città eroina”
  • Japanese: “英雄都市”
  • Korean: “영웅 도시”
  • Korean: “영웅도시”
  • Latvian: “Pilsēta varone”
  • Macedonian: “градови-херои во СССР”
  • Macedonian: “Градови-херои во СССР”
  • Mongolian: “Баатар-хот”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “helteby”
  • Norwegian: “Helteby”
  • Persian: “شهر قهرمان”
  • Persian: “شهرهای قهرمان”
  • Polish: “Miasto Bohater”
  • Polish: “Miasto-bohater”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Herói”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Heroica”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade-Herói”
  • Romanian: “Oraș Erou al Uniunii Sovietice”
  • Romanian: “Oraș Erou”
  • Romanian: “Orașe Eroice”
  • Russian: “город - герой”
  • Russian: “город-герой”
  • Russian: “города герои”
  • Russian: “города-герои”
  • Russian: “Города-герои”
  • Russian: “Ленинград”
  • Serbian: “Gradovi heroji u SSSR”
  • Serbian: “Градови хероји Совјетског Савеза”
  • Serbian: “Градови хероји у Совјетском Савезу”
  • Serbian: “Градови хероји у СССР-у”
  • Serbian: “Градови хероји у СССР”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gradovi heroji SSSR-a”
  • Slovak: “Hrdinské mestá”
  • Slovak: “Hrdinské mesto”
  • Slovak: “Mesto-hrdina”
  • Slovenian: “mesto heroj”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Heroe”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Héroe”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad heroica”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Heroica”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Heróica”
  • Swedish: “Hjältestad”
  • Swedish: “Hjältestäder”
  • Tatar: “Герой шәһәр”
  • Tatar: “Каһарман шәһәр”
  • Thai: “วีรนคร”
  • Turkish: “Kahraman şehir”
  • Turkish: “Kahraman tahkimat”
  • Turkish: “SSCB’nin Kahraman Şehirleri”
  • Udmurt: “Город-герой”
  • Ukrainian: “міста-герої”
  • Ukrainian: “місто-герой”
  • Ukrainian: “Місто-герой”
  • Urdu: “ہیرو سٹی (سوویت یونین)”
  • Urdu: “ہیرو سٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Anh hùng”
  • Welsh: “Dinas yr Arwr”

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