Norilsk
Norilsk is a large city in Taymyria. Because of its strategic importance for nickel ore processing, Norilsk is a closed city and special permission is needed for travel, which is generally only granted for guided tours.
- Type: City with 177,000 residents
- Description: city in Russia
- Also known as: “Noril’sk”, “Norilskoe”, “Нори́льск”, and “諾里爾斯”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nord Kamal Mosque and Norilsk Polar Drama Theater ‘Vl. Mayakovsky’.
Nord Kamal Mosque
Mosque
The Nord Kamal Mosque is the largest mosque in the city of Norilsk, Russia. It was built by businessman Mukhtad Bekmeyev, a Tatar businessman in Norilsk, who named it after his parents Nuritdin and Gaynikamal.
Norilsk Polar Drama Theater ‘Vl. Mayakovsky’
Theater building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Norilsk
- Categories: city or town, closed city, big city, and locality
- Location: Taymyria, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
69.3502° or 69° 21′ 1″ north
Longitude
88.2013° or 88° 12′ 5″ east
Population
177,000
Elevation
76 metres (249 feet)
Inception
1935
United Nations Location Code
RU NSK
Open location code
9MXC9622+3G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Norilsk” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Norilsk”
- Albanian: “Norilsku”
- Arabic: “نوريلسك”
- Armenian: “Նորիլսկ”
- Azerbaijani: “Norilsk”
- Bashkir: “Норильск”
- Basque: “Norilsk”
- Belarusian: “Нарыльск”
- Bengali: “নরলিস্ক”
- Bulgarian: “Норилск”
- Catalan: “Norilsk”
- Cebuano: “Norilsk”
- Chechen: “Норильск”
- Chinese: “諾里爾斯克”
- Chinese: “诺里尔斯克”
- Chuvash: “Норильск”
- Crimean Tatar: “Norilsk”
- Croatian: “Noriljsk”
- Czech: “Norilsk”
- Danish: “Norilsk”
- Dutch: “Norilsk”
- Eastern Mari: “Норильск”
- Esperanto: “Norilsko”
- Estonian: “Norilsk”
- Finnish: “Norilsk”
- French: “Norilsk”
- German: “Norilsk”
- Greek: “Νορίλσκ”
- Greek: “Νόριλσκ”
- Gujarati: “નોરિલસ્ક”
- Hebrew: “נורילסק”
- Hindi: “नोरिल्स्क”
- Hungarian: “Norilszk”
- Inari Sami: “Norilsk”
- Indonesian: “Norilsk”
- Italian: “Noril’sk”
- Japanese: “ノリリスク”
- Kannada: “ನಾರ್ಲಿಸ್ಕ್”
- Korean: “노릴스크”
- Ladin: “Norilsk”
- Latin: “Norilium”
- Latvian: “Noriļska”
- Lithuanian: “Norilskas”
- Luxembourgish: “Norilsk”
- Macedonian: “Нориљск”
- Malay: “Norilsk”
- Marathi: “नॉरिल्स्क”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Norilsk”
- Mongolian: “Норильск”
- Nepali: “नोरिल्स्क”
- Northern Frisian: “Norilsk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Norilsk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Norilsk”
- Norwegian: “Norilsk”
- Ossetian: “Норильск”
- Persian: “نوریلسک”
- Polish: “Norylsk”
- Portuguese: “Norilsk”
- Romanian: “Norilsk”
- Russian: “Норильск”
- Scots: “Norilsk”
- Serbian: “Нориљск”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Noriljsk”
- Silesian: “Norilsk”
- Sinhala: “නොර්ලිස්ක්”
- Slovak: “Noriľsk”
- Slovenian: “Norilsk”
- South Azerbaijani: “نوریلسک”
- Spanish: “Norilsk”
- Swedish: “Norilsk”
- Tagalog: “Norilsk”
- Tajik: “Норилск”
- Talysh: “Norilsk”
- Tamil: “நோரில்ஸ்க்”
- Tatar: “Норилск”
- Tatar: “Норильск”
- Telugu: “నోరీల్స్క్”
- Thai: “โนริลสค์”
- Turkish: “Norilsk”
- Ukrainian: “Норильськ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Norilsk”
- Urdu: “نورلسک”
- Uzbek: “Norilsk”
- Veps: “Noril’sk”
- Vietnamese: “Norilsk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Norilsk”
- Western Panjabi: “نورلسک”
- Wu Chinese: “诺里尔斯克”
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