Obninsk
Obninsk is a city of 116,000 people in Kaluga Oblast on the bank of the Protva River. The new city of Obninsk was developed after World War II as a scientific city specializing in nuclear physics and atomic energy, meteorology, radiology, radiation chemistry and geophysics.
- Type: City with 116,000 residents
- Description: city in Kaluga Oblast, Russia
- Also known as: “Obninska”, “О́бнинск”, and “اوبنينسك”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Museum of the Obninsk сity history and Obninskoye.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belousovo and Spas-Zagor’ye.
Obninsk
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Kaluga Oblast, Central Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
55.0952° or 55° 5′ 43″ north
Longitude
36.6119° or 36° 36′ 43″ east
Population
116,000
Elevation
187 metres (614 feet)
Established
1946
UN/LOCODE
RU OBK
Open location code
9G7R3JW6+3Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Obninsk” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوبنينسك”
- Armenian: “Օբնինսկ”
- Asturian: “Óbninsk”
- Azerbaijani: “Obninsk”
- Bashkir: “Обнинск”
- Basque: “Obninsk”
- Belarusian: “Обнінск”
- Bengali: “অবনিনস্ক”
- Bulgarian: “Обнинск”
- Catalan: “Óbninsk”
- Cebuano: “Obninsk”
- Chechen: “Обнинск”
- Chinese: “奥布宁斯克”
- Chinese: “奧博寧斯克”
- Chuvash: “Обнинск”
- Crimean Tatar: “Obninsk”
- Croatian: “Obninsk”
- Czech: “Obninsk”
- Danish: “Obninsk”
- Dutch: “Obninsk”
- Eastern Mari: “Обнинск”
- Esperanto: “Obninsk”
- Estonian: “Obninsk”
- Finnish: “Obninsk”
- French: “Obninsk”
- Georgian: “ობნინსკი”
- German: “Obninsk”
- Greek: “Ομπνίνσκ”
- Greek: “Όμπνινσκ”
- Gujarati: “ઓબ્નિન્સ્ક”
- Hebrew: “אובנינסק”
- Hindi: “ओबनिंस्क”
- Hungarian: “Obnyinszk”
- Indonesian: “Obninsk”
- Italian: “Obninsk”
- Japanese: “オブニンスク”
- Kannada: “ಓಬ್ನಿನ್ಸ್ಕ್”
- Korean: “오브닌스크”
- Ladin: “Obninsk”
- Latvian: “Obņinska”
- Lithuanian: “Obninskas”
- Malay: “Obninsk”
- Malayalam: “ഓബ്നിൻസ്ക്”
- Marathi: “ओबनिंस्क”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Obninsk”
- Nauru: “Obninsk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Obninsk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Obninsk”
- Norwegian: “Obninsk”
- Ossetian: “Обнинск”
- Persian: “اوبنینسک”
- Polish: “Obninsk”
- Polish: “Obnińsk”
- Portuguese: “Obninsk”
- Romanian: “Obninsk”
- Russian: “Обнинск”
- Scots: “Obninsk”
- Serbian: “Обнинск”
- Serbian: “Обњинск”
- Sicilian: “Obninsk”
- Sinhala: “ඔබ්නින්ස්ක්”
- Slovenian: “Obninsk”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوبنینسک”
- Spanish: “Óbninsk”
- Swedish: “Obninsk”
- Tagalog: “Obninsk”
- Tajik: “Обнинск”
- Talysh: “Obninsk”
- Tamil: “ஒபினின்ஸ்க்”
- Tatar: “Обнинск”
- Telugu: “అబ్నిస్క్”
- Thai: “ออบนินสค์”
- Turkish: “Obninsk”
- Ukrainian: “Обнінськ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Obninsk”
- Urdu: “اوبنینسک”
- Veps: “Obninsk”
- Vietnamese: “Obninsk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Obninsk”
- Welsh: “Obninsk”
- Western Panjabi: “اوبنینسک”
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