Novgorod

Novgorod is one of the oldest cities in Russia. It was first mentioned in the manuscripts as early as 859.
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  • Type: City with 223,000 residents
  • Description: city in Novgorod Oblast, Russia
  • Also known as: “Great Novgorod”, “Holmgard”, “Hólmgarðr”, “Navgard”, “Neugarten”, “Novgorod-la-Grande”, “Nowgorod”, “Nowgorod-Weliki”, “Uz’lidn”, “Veliky Novgorod”, “ヴェリキー・ノヴゴロト”, and “ノブゴロド”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Monument Millennium of Russia and Cathedral of Holy Wisdom.

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The Millennium of Russia is a bronze monument in the Novgorod Kremlin. It was erected in 1862 to celebrate the millennium of Rurik's arrival to Novgorod, an event traditionally taken as a starting point of the history of Russian statehood.

Church
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The Cathedral of Saint Sophia, the Holy Wisdom of God, in Veliky Novgorod, , is the cathedral church of the Metropolitan of Novgorod and the mother church of the Novgorodian Eparchy.

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The Novgorod Detinets, also known as the , is a fortified complex in Veliky Novgorod, . It stands on the left bank of the Volkhov River about two miles north of where it empties out of Lake Ilmen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pankovka and Grigorovo.

Town
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is an urban locality in of , Russia, located on the right bank of the Veryazha River, southwest of and immediately adjacent to Veliky Novgorod.

Village
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is a village in of , , located on the right bank of the Veryazha River, west of and immediately adjacent to Veliky Novgorod.

Suburb
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, also known as Novgorodskoye Gorodishche, or simply Gorodishche, was a medieval settlement located 2 kilometres south of the in Veliky Novgorod, Russia.

Novgorod

Latitude
58.521° or 58° 31′ 16″ north
Longitude
31.2758° or 31° 16′ 33″ east
Population
223,000
Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)
IATA airport code
NVR
United Nations Location Code
RU VND
Open location code
9GCHG7CG+98
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27017589
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
519336
Wiki­data ID
Q2235
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Novgorod” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Велики Новгород”
  • Abkhazian: “Новгород”
  • Afrikaans: “Weliki Nowgorod”
  • Amharic: “ቬሊኪ ኖቭጎሮድ”
  • Arabic: “فيليكي نوفغورود”
  • Arabic: “نوفغورود العظيمة”
  • Armenian: “Մեծ Նովգորոդ”
  • Asturian: “Veliki Nóvgorod”
  • Aymara: “Wyilikiu Nuwhurud”
  • Azerbaijani: “Veliki Novqorod”
  • Azerbaijani: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • Bashkir: “Бөйөк Новгород”
  • Basque: “Novgorod”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікі Ноўгарад”
  • Bengali: “ভেলিকি ন্যভগরদ”
  • Bengali: “ভেলিকিয় নোভগোরোড”
  • Bosnian: “Veliki Novgorod”
  • Breton: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • Bulgarian: “Велики Новгород”
  • Catalan: “Nóvgorod”
  • Catalan: “Nòvgorod”
  • Cebuano: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • Chechen: “Велики Новгород”
  • Chechen: “Сийлахь-йоккха Новгород”
  • Chinese: “大諾夫哥羅德”
  • Chinese: “大诺夫哥罗德”
  • Church Slavic: “Новъ Градъ”
  • Church Slavic: “Новъградъ”
  • Chuvash: “Аслă Новгород”
  • Chuvash: “Новгород”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • Croatian: “Veliki Novgorod”
  • Czech: “Novgorod”
  • Czech: “Veliký Novgorod”
  • Czech: “Velký Novgorod”
  • Danish: “Velikij Novgorod”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Veliky Novgorod”
  • Dutch: “Novgorod”
  • Dutch: “Veliki Novgorod”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кугу Новгород”
  • Erzya: “Ине Одош ош”
  • Esperanto: “Velikij Novgorod”
  • Estonian: “Veliki Novgorod”
  • Finnish: “Novgorod”
  • Finnish: “Veliki Novgorod”
  • French: “Novgorod”
  • Galician: “Nóvgorod”
  • Galician: “Velikii Novgorod”
  • Georgian: “დიდი ნოვგოროდი”
  • German: “Weliki Nowgorod”
  • Greek: “Νόβγκοροντ”
  • Gujarati: “વેલિકી નોવગોરોડ”
  • Haitian: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • Hausa: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • Hebrew: “נובגורוד”
  • Hindi: “वेलिकिय नोवगोरोड”
  • Hindi: “वेलीकी नोव्गोरोड”
  • Hungarian: “Velikij Novgorod”
  • Icelandic: “Hólmgarður”
  • Ido: “Novgorod”
  • Ido: “Veliki Novgorod”
  • Indonesian: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • Irish: “Novgorod”
  • Irish: “Veliky Novgorod”
  • Italian: “Novgorod”
  • Italian: “Velikij Novgorod”
  • Japanese: “ノヴゴロド”
  • Javanese: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • Kannada: “ವೆಲಿಕ್ಯ್ ನೋವಿಗೊರೊದ್”
  • Karelian: “Šuuri Novgorodi”
  • Kazakh: “Великий Новгород”
  • Kirghiz: “Великий Новгород”
  • Komi: “Ыджыд Вылькар”
  • Korean: “벨리키노브고로드”
  • Ladin: “Veliki Novgorod”
  • Latin: “Novogardia Magna”
  • Latvian: “Veļikijnovgoroda”
  • Lithuanian: “Didysis Naugardas”
  • Lithuanian: “Naugardas”
  • Low German: “Naugard”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Wjeliki Nowgorod”
  • Macedonian: “Велики Новгород”
  • Malay: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • Malay: “Veliky Novgorod”
  • Marathi: “वेलिकी नॉवगोरोद”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Veliky Novgorod”
  • Mingrelian: “კაბეტი ნოვგოროდი”
  • Moksha: “Оцю Новгород”
  • Mongolian: “Их Новгород”
  • Northern Frisian: “Weliki Nowgorod”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Novgorod”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Novgorod”
  • Norwegian: “Novgorod”
  • Norwegian: “Velikij Novgorod”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nòvgorod”
  • Old Norse: “Hólmgarður”
  • Oromo: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • Ossetian: “Стыр Новгород”
  • Panjabi: “ਵੇਲਿਕੀ ਨੋਵਗੋਰੋਡ”
  • Persian: “ولیکی نووگورود”
  • Persian: “ولیکیا نووگورد”
  • Polish: “Nowogród Wielki”
  • Portuguese: “Novgorod”
  • Portuguese: “Novogárdia Magna”
  • Portuguese: “Veliky Novgorod”
  • Pushto: “ويليکي نووګورود”
  • Pushto: “ویلیکیا نووگورڈ”
  • Quechua: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • Romanian: “Veliki Novgorod”
  • Romanian: “Velikii Novgorod”
  • Russian: “Великий Новгород”
  • Rusyn: “Великый Новгород”
  • Scots: “Novgorod”
  • Scots: “Veliky Novgorod”
  • Serbian: “Велики Новгород”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Veliki Novgorod”
  • Sinhala: “වෙලිකි නොව්ගොරොඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Velikij Novgorod”
  • Slovenian: “Veliki Novgorod”
  • Somali: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ولیکی نووقورود”
  • Spanish: “Nóvgorod”
  • Spanish: “Veliki Nóvgorod”
  • Swahili: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • Swedish: “Novgorod”
  • Tagalog: “Veliky Novgorod”
  • Tajik: “Великий Новгород”
  • Talysh: “Velikij Novgorod”
  • Tamil: “வெலிக்கி நோவ்கோரோத் நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “வெளிக்கி நொவ்கோரோட்”
  • Tatar: “Бөек Новгород”
  • Tatar: “Великий Новгород”
  • Telugu: “వెలికి నోవ్గోరోడ్”
  • Thai: “เวลิกี นอฟโดรอด”
  • Thai: “เวลีคีนอฟโกรอด”
  • Turkish: “Veliki Novgorod”
  • Twi: “Veliky Novgorod”
  • Udmurt: “Новгород”
  • Ukrainian: “Великий Новгород”
  • Ukrainian: “Великий Новґород”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wjelikij Nowgorod”
  • Urdu: “ویلیکی نووگورود”
  • Urdu: “ویلیکیا نووگورڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Novgorod”
  • Uzbek: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • Venetian: “Velikij Novgorod”
  • Veps: “Sur‘ Uz’lidn”
  • Veps: “Sur’ Uz’lidn”
  • Vietnamese: “Veliky Novgorod”
  • Walloon: “Novgorod”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Veliky Novgorod”
  • Welsh: “Velikiy Novgorod”
  • Welsh: “Veliky Novgorod”
  • Western Frisian: “Veliki Novgorod”
  • Western Panjabi: “ویلیکی نووگورد”
  • Wolof: “Veliky Novgorod”
  • Wu Chinese: “大诺夫哥罗德”
  • Yue Chinese: “大諾夫哥羅德”
  • “ma tomo Weliki Nokolo”
  • “ma tomo Welikinokolo”

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