Palekh
Palekh is a small town in Ivanovo Oblast. A very artistic town, Palekh is the origin of the prominent 19th-century Palekh school of icon and mural painting, exhibited prominently at the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 4,930 residents
- Description: town in Palekhsky District, Ivanovo Oblast, Russia
- Also known as: “Paleg”
- Address: Палехский район
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Krashoye.
Krashoye
Hamlet
Photo: Ludvig14, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Krashoye is a hamlet, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Palekh.
Palekh
- Categories: urban-type settlement in Russia and locality
- Location: Ivanovo Oblast, Central Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.8024° or 56° 48′ 9″ northLongitude
41.854° or 41° 51′ 14″ eastPopulation
4,930Elevation
111 metres (364 feet)Open location code
9H83RV23+XHOpenStreetMap ID
node 356482828OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
513095Wikidata ID
Q1010115
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Western Frisian—“Palekh” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Palekh”
- Armenian: “Պալեխ”
- Belarusian: “Палех”
- Bulgarian: “Палех”
- Catalan: “Paleh”
- Catalan: “Palekh”
- Cebuano: “Palekh”
- Chechen: “Палех”
- Chinese: “帕列赫”
- Crimean Tatar: “Paleh”
- Croatian: “Paleh”
- Czech: “Palech”
- Dutch: “Palech”
- Erzya: “Палех”
- Finnish: “Paleh”
- French: “Palekh”
- German: “Palech”
- Italian: “Palech”
- Italian: “Palekh”
- Japanese: “パレフ”
- Japanese: “パレフ塗り”
- Korean: “팔레흐”
- Lithuanian: “Palechas”
- Macedonian: “Палех”
- Norwegian: “Palekh”
- Ossetian: “Палех”
- Polish: “Palech”
- Portuguese: “Palekh”
- Russian: “Пáлех”
- Russian: “Палех”
- Scots: “Palekh”
- South Azerbaijani: “پئیلخ، روسیه”
- Spanish: “Palej”
- Tagalog: “Palekh”
- Tajik: “Палех”
- Turkish: “Paleh”
- Ukrainian: “Палех”
- Western Frisian: “Palech”
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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 “Palekh”. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.