Obninsk

Obninsk is a city of 116,000 people in 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum of the Obninsk сity history and Obninskoye.

Museum
Photo: Андрей Бабуров, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station.

Electrical generator
Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant was built in the "Science City" of Obninsk, , about 110 km southwest of , 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.

Town
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is a town in of , . Population: 10,946 ; 8,412 ; 8,515 ; 11,886 .

Village
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Spas-Zagorye is a village, administrative centre of rural settlements in the municipal area of of the , Russia.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Obninsk

Latitude
55.0952° or 55° 5′ 43″ north
Longitude
36.6119° or 36° 36′ 43″ east
Population
116,000
Elevation
187 metres (614 feet)
Inception
1946
United Nations Location Code
RU OBK
Open location code
9G7R3JW6+3Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 90495941
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
516436
Wiki­data 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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