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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: VladikNesterov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of the Obninsk сity history and Obninskoye.
APS-1 Obninsk
Electrical generator
Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant was built in the "Science City" of Obninsk, Kaluga Oblast, about 110 km southwest of Moscow, Soviet Union. Connected to the power grid in June 1954, Obninsk was the first grid-connected nuclear power plant in the world, i.e. the first nuclear reactor that produced electricity industrially, albeit at small scale.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Belousovo and Spas-Zagor’ye.
Belousovo
Town
Belousovo is a town in Zhukovsky District of Kaluga Oblast, Russia. Population: 10,946 ; 8,412 ; 8,515 ; 11,886 .
Spas-Zagor’ye
Village
Photo: NVO, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Spas-Zagorye is a village, administrative centre of rural settlements in the municipal area of Maloyaroslavetsky District of the Kaluga region, Russia.
Obninsk
- Type: City with 116,000 residents
- Description: city in Kaluga Oblast, Russia
- 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″ northLongitude
36.6119° or 36° 36′ 43″ eastPopulation
116,000Elevation
187 metres (614 feet)Inception
1946United Nations Location Code
RU OBKOpen location code
9G7R3JW6+3QOpenStreetMap ID
node 90495941OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
516436Wikidata ID
Q175651
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Obninsk” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوبنينسك”
- Arabic: “اوبنينسك”
- Armenian: “Օբնինսկ”
- Asturian: “Óbninsk”
- Azerbaijani: “Obninsk”
- Bashkir: “Обнинск”
- Basque: “Obninsk”
- Belarusian: “Обнінск”
- Bengali: “অবনিনস্ক”
- Bulgarian: “Обнинск”
- Catalan: “Óbninsk”
- Cebuano: “Obninsk”
- Chechen: “Обнинск”
- Chinese: “Obninsk”
- 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: “Obninska”
- 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”
- Russian: “О́бнинск”
- Scots: “Obninsk”
- Serbian: “Обнинск”
- Serbian: “Обњинск”
- Sicilian: “Obninsk”
- Sinhala: “ඔබ්නින්ස්ක්”
- Slovenian: “Obninsk”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوبنینسک”
- Spanish: “Obninsk”
- 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Obninsk”. Photo: VladikNesterov, CC BY-SA 4.0.