Novgorod
Novgorod is one of the oldest cities in Russia. It was first mentioned in the manuscripts as early as 859.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 223,000 residents
- Description: city in Novgorod Oblast, Russia
- Also known as: “Great Novgorod”, “Nowgorod”, “Nowgorod-Weliki”, “Velikiy Novgorod”, and “Veliky Novgorod”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monument Millennium of Russia and Cathedral of Holy Wisdom.
Monument Millennium of Russia
Photo: Tsyganov Sergey, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Cathedral of Holy Wisdom
Church
Photo: AleAlexander, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral of Saint Sophia, the Holy Wisdom of God in Veliky Novgorod, Russia, is the cathedral church of the Metropolitan of Novgorod and the mother church of the Novgorodian Eparchy.
Novgorod Kremlin
Photo: EkaterinaKhomichenko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Novgorod Detinets, also known as the Novgorod Kremlin, is a fortified complex in Veliky Novgorod, Russia. 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.
Pankovka
Town
Photo: Дар Ветер, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pankovka is an urban locality in Novgorodsky District of Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Veryazha River, southwest of and immediately adjacent to Veliky Novgorod.
Grigorovo
Village
Photo: Loginname, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Grigorovo is a village in Novgorodsky District of Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Veryazha River, west of and immediately adjacent to Veliky Novgorod.
Rurikovo Gorodische
Suburb
Photo: Vash Alex kun, Public domain.
Rurikovo Gorodische, the primary settlement in the area known in Scandinavian sources as Holmgård, was the 9th century predecessor of Veliky Novgorod. The archaeological site is 2 km to the south of the current city center, across from Yuriev Monastery where the Volkhov River flows out of Lake Ilmen.
Novgorod
- Categories: city or town, big city, urban okrug in Russia, and locality
- Location: Novgorod Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
58.521° or 58° 31′ 16″ northLongitude
31.2758° or 31° 16′ 33″ eastPopulation
223,000Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)IATA airport code
NVRUnited Nations Location Code
RU VNDOpen location code
9GCHG7CG+98OpenStreetMap ID
node 27017589OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
519336Wikidata 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”
- Armenian: “Մեծ Նովգորոդ”
- Asturian: “Veliki Nóvgorod”
- Aymara: “Wyilikiu Nuwhurud”
- Azerbaijani: “Veliki Novqorod”
- Bashkir: “Бөйөк Новгород”
- Basque: “Novgorod”
- Belarusian: “Вялікі Ноўгарад”
- Bengali: “ভেলিকি ন্যভগরদ”
- Bosnian: “Veliki Novgorod”
- Breton: “Velikiy Novgorod”
- Bulgarian: “Велики Новгород”
- Bulgarian: “Новгород”
- Catalan: “Nóvgorod”
- Catalan: “Nòvgorod”
- Catalan: “Veliki Nóvgorod”
- Cebuano: “Velikiy Novgorod”
- Chechen: “Велики Новгород”
- Chechen: “Сийлахь-йоккха Новгород”
- Chinese: “Veliky Novgorod”
- Chinese: “大诺夫哥罗德”
- Chinese: “大諾夫哥羅德”
- Church Slavic: “Новъ Градъ”
- Church Slavic: “Новъградъ”
- Chuvash: “Аслă Новгород”
- Chuvash: “Новгород”
- Crimean Tatar: “Velikiy Novgorod”
- Croatian: “Veliki Novgorod”
- Czech: “Hólmgarðr”
- Czech: “Novgorod”
- Czech: “Velikij 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-la-Grande”
- French: “Novgorod”
- French: “Veliki Novgorod”
- Galician: “Nóvgorod”
- Galician: “Velikii Novgorod”
- Georgian: “დიდი ნოვგოროდი”
- German: “Naugard”
- German: “Navgard”
- German: “Neugarten”
- German: “Weliki Nowgorod”
- Greek: “Νόβγκοροντ”
- Gujarati: “વેલિકી નોવગોરોડ”
- Haitian: “Velikiy Novgorod”
- Hebrew: “נובגורוד”
- Hindi: “वेलीकी नोव्गोरोड”
- Hungarian: “Novgorod”
- Hungarian: “Velikij Novgorod”
- Icelandic: “Hólmgarður”
- Ido: “Novgorod”
- Ido: “Veliki Novgorod”
- Indonesian: “Novgorod”
- Indonesian: “Velikiy Novgorod”
- Irish: “Novgorod”
- Irish: “Veliky Novgorod”
- Italian: “Holmgard”
- Italian: “Novgorod”
- Italian: “Velikij Novgorod”
- Japanese: “ヴェリキー・ノヴゴロト”
- Japanese: “ノヴゴロド”
- Japanese: “ノブゴロド”
- Kannada: “ವೆಲಿಕ್ಯ್ ನೋವಿಗೊರೊದ್”
- Karelian: “Šuuri Novgorodi”
- 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: “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”
- Ossetian: “Стыр Новгород”
- Persian: “ولیکی نووگورود”
- Polish: “Nowogród Wielki”
- Portuguese: “Novogárdia Magna”
- Portuguese: “Veliky Novgorod”
- Pushto: “ويليکي نووګورود”
- Quechua: “Velikiy Novgorod”
- Romanian: “Veliki Novgorod”
- Russian: “Великий Новгород”
- Russian: “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”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولیکی نووقورود”
- Spanish: “Novgorod”
- Spanish: “Nóvgorod”
- Spanish: “Veliki Novgorod”
- Spanish: “Veliki Nóvgorod”
- Swahili: “Velikiy Novgorod”
- Swedish: “Novgorod”
- Swedish: “Velikij Novgorod”
- Tagalog: “Veliky Novgorod”
- Talysh: “Velikij Novgorod”
- Tamil: “வெலிக்கி நோவ்கோரோத் நகரம்”
- Tamil: “வெளிக்கி நொவ்கோரோட்”
- Tatar: “Бөек Новгород”
- Telugu: “వెలికి నోవ్గోరోడ్”
- Thai: “เวลิกี นอฟโดรอด”
- Thai: “เวลีคีนอฟโกรอด”
- Turkish: “Veliki Novgorod”
- Twi: “Veliky Novgorod”
- Udmurt: “Новгород”
- Ukrainian: “Великий Новгород”
- Ukrainian: “Новгород”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wjelikij Nowgorod”
- Urdu: “ویلیکی نووگورود”
- Uzbek: “Novgorod”
- Venetian: “Velikij Novgorod”
- Veps: “Sur‘ Uz’lidn”
- Veps: “Sur’ Uz’lidn”
- Veps: “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”
- “Velikii Novgorod”
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