Petrozavodsk
Petrozavodsk is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia, which stretches along the western shore of Lake Onega for some 27 kilometers. The population of the city is 280,890 as of 2022.
- Type: City with 235,000 residents
- Description: capital city of the Republic of Karelia in north-western Russia
- Also known as: “Petroskoi”, “Онегаборг”, “Петровский Завод”, “Шуйский Завод”, and “Яанислинна”
Places of Interest
Highlights include National theatre and Petrozavodsk State University.
National theatre
Theater building
National Theatre of Karelia is a 1932 established theatre in Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Russia. It is the only Finnish language theatre in Russia. The theater is also the main platform for plays in Karelian and Vepsian on Russia.
Petrozavodsk State University
University
Petrozavodsk State University is a classical university in Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Russia. It was founded in 1940 as the Karelian-Finnish University and was renamed in 1956 to Petrozavodsk State University.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Devil’s Chair.
Petrozavodsk
- Categories: big city, city/town in Russia, and locality
- Location: Karelia, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
61.7892° or 61° 47′ 21″ north
Longitude
34.3688° or 34° 22′ 8″ east
Population
235,000
Elevation
73 metres (240 feet)
Inception
1703
IATA airport code
PES
United Nations Location Code
RU PES
Open location code
9GHPQ9Q9+MG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Petrozavodsk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Petrozawodsk”
- Amharic: “ፔትሮዛቮድስክ”
- Arabic: “بيتروزوفودسك”
- Armenian: “Պետրոզավոդսկ”
- Asturian: “Petrozavodsk”
- Azerbaijani: “Petrozavodsk”
- Bashkir: “Петрозаводск”
- Basque: “Petrozavodsk”
- Belarusian: “Петразаводзк”
- Belarusian: “Петразаводск”
- Bengali: “পেট্রোজাভোডস্ক”
- Bengali: “পেত্রোজাভস্ক”
- Bosnian: “Petrozavodsk”
- Breton: “Petroskoi”
- Bulgarian: “Петрозаводск”
- Catalan: “Petrozavodsk”
- Cebuano: “Petrozavodsk”
- Chechen: “Петрозаводск”
- Chinese: “Petrozavodsk”
- Chinese: “彼得罗扎沃茨克”
- Chinese: “彼得羅扎沃茨克”
- Chuvash: “Петрозаводск”
- Crimean Tatar: “Petrozavodsk”
- Croatian: “Petrozavodsk”
- Czech: “Petrozavodsk”
- Danish: “Petrosavodsk”
- Dutch: “Petrozavodsk”
- Eastern Mari: “Петрозаводск”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيتروزوفودسك”
- Erzya: “Петроской ош”
- Esperanto: “Petrozavodsk”
- Esperanto: “Petrozavodsko”
- Estonian: “Petroskoi”
- Finnish: “Äänislinna (1941-44)”
- Finnish: “Äänislinna (1941–44)”
- Finnish: “Äänislinna” (historical)
- Finnish: “Petroskoi”
- French: “Petrozavodsk”
- Galician: “Petrozavodsk”
- Georgian: “პეტროზავოდსკი”
- German: “Petrosawodsk”
- German: “Petroskoi”
- Gothic: “𐍀𐌴𐍄𐍂𐍉𐌶𐌰𐌸𐌰𐌿𐌳𐍃𐌺”
- Gothic: “𐍀𐌴𐍄𐍂𐍉𐌶𐌰𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃𐌺/Petrozavodsk”
- Greek: “Πετροζαβόντσκ”
- Greek: “Πιτραζαβότσκ”
- Gujarati: “પેટ્રોઝવોડ્સ્ક”
- Hausa: “Petrozavodsk”
- Hebrew: “פטרוזבודסק”
- Hindi: “पेत्रोज़ावोद्स्क”
- Hungarian: “Petrozavodsk”
- Hungarian: “Petrozavodszk”
- Icelandic: “Petrozavodsk”
- Ido: “Petrozavodsk”
- Inari Sami: “Petroskoi”
- Indonesian: “Petrozavodsk”
- Interlingue: “Petrozavodsk”
- Irish: “Petrozavodsk”
- Italian: “Petrozavodsk”
- Japanese: “ペトロザヴォーツク”
- Japanese: “ペトロザボーツク”
- Japanese: “ペトロスコイ”
- Javanese: “Petrozavodsk”
- Kannada: “ಪೆಟ್ರೊಜವೋಡ್ಸ್ಕ್”
- Karelian: “Petroskoi”
- Kazakh: “Петрозаводск”
- Kirghiz: “Петрозаводск”
- Komi-Permyak: “Петроскӧй”
- Komi: “Петроской”
- Korean: “페트로자보츠크”
- Ladin: “Petrosavodsk”
- Latin: “Petri Fabrica”
- Latvian: “Petrozavodska”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Petrozavodsk”
- Lithuanian: “Petrozavodskas”
- Livvi: “Petroskoi”
- Lombard: “Petrozavodsk”
- Macedonian: “Петрозаводск”
- Malay: “Petrozavodsk”
- Marathi: “पेट्रोझेवोडस्क”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Petrozavodsk”
- Mingrelian: “პეტროზავოდსკი”
- Mongolian: “Петрозаводск”
- Northern Frisian: “Petrosawodsk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Petrozavodsk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Petrozavodsk”
- Norwegian: “Petrozavodsk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Petrozavodsk”
- Oromo: “Petrozavodsk”
- Ossetian: “Петрозаводск”
- Panjabi: “ਪੇਟ੍ਰੋਜ਼ਾਵੋਡਸਕ”
- Persian: “پتروزاودسک”
- Polish: “Petrozawodzk”
- Polish: “Pietrozawodsk”
- Portuguese: “Petrozavódseque”
- Portuguese: “Petrozavodsk”
- Pushto: “پيټروز اوډسک”
- Pushto: “پیٹروزاوودسک”
- Romanian: “Petrozavodsk”
- Russian: “Петрик”
- Russian: “Петровская слобода”
- Russian: “Петрозаводск”
- Russian: “Птз”
- Scots: “Petrozavodsk”
- Serbian: “Петрозаводск”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Petrozavodsk”
- Sinhala: “පෙට්රොසැවො ඩ්ස්ක්”
- Slovak: “Petrozavodsk”
- Slovenian: “Petrozavodsk”
- Somali: “Petrozavodsk”
- South Azerbaijani: “پتروزاودسک”
- Spanish: “Petrozavodsk”
- Swahili: “Petrozavodsk”
- Swedish: “Onegaborg”
- Swedish: “Petroskoj”
- Swedish: “Petrozavodsk”
- Tagalog: “Petrozavodsk”
- Tajik: “Петрозаводск”
- Talysh: “Petrozavodsk”
- Tamil: “பெட் ரோஸாவோட்ஸ்க்”
- Tatar: “Петрозаводск”
- Telugu: “పెట్రోజావోడ్స్క్”
- Thai: “เปโตรซาวอดสค์”
- Turkish: “Petrozavodsk”
- Udmurt: “Петрозаводск”
- Ukrainian: “Петрозаводськ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Pjetrozawodsk”
- Urdu: “پیٹروزاودسک”
- Uzbek: “Petrozavodsk”
- Venetian: “Petrozavodsk”
- Veps: “Lidn”
- Veps: “Petroskoi”
- Veps: “Zavod”
- Veps: “Zavodad”
- Vietnamese: “Petrozavodsk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Petrozavodsk”
- Western Panjabi: “پیتروزاوودسک”
- Wu Chinese: “彼得罗扎沃茨克”
- Yue Chinese: “彼得羅扎沃茨克”
- “Petrozavodsk”
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