Russia
NW Russia
Karelia

Petrozavodsk

Petrozavodsk is the capital city of the , , which stretches along the western shore of for some 27 kilometers. The population of the city is 280,890 as of 2022.
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  • Type: City with 236,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of the Republic of Karelia in north-western Russia
  • Also known as: “Petroskoi”
Photo: Serjvolkov, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include National theatre and Petrozavodsk State University.

Theater building
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
of Karelia is a 1932 established theatre in Petrozavodsk, , . It is the only Finnish language theatre in Russia. The theater is also the main platform for plays in Karelian and Vepsian on Russia.

University
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a classical university in Petrozavodsk, , Russia. It was founded in 1940 as the Karelian-Finnish University and was renamed in 1956 to .

Museum
Photo: Igriks, Public domain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Devil’s Chair.

Locality
Photo: Roman Smirnov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a locality.

Petrozavodsk

Latitude
61.7892° or 61° 47′ 21″ north
Longitude
34.3688° or 34° 22′ 8″ east
Population
236,000
Elevation
73 metres (240 feet)
IATA airport code
PES
United Nations Location Code
RU PES
Open location code
9GHPQ9Q9+MG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26903504
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
509820
Wiki­data ID
Q1895
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Petrozavodsk” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Petrozawodsk”
  • Arabic: “بيتروزوفودسك”
  • Armenian: “Պետրոզավոդսկ”
  • Asturian: “Petrozavodsk”
  • Azerbaijani: “Petrozavodsk”
  • Bashkir: “Петрозаводск”
  • Basque: “Petrozavodsk”
  • Belarusian: “Петразаводзк”
  • Belarusian: “Петразаводск”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆಟ್ರೊಜವೋಡ್ಸ್ಕ್”
  • Karelian: “Petroskoi”
  • Kirghiz: “Петрозаводск”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Петроскӧй”
  • Komi: “Петроской”
  • Korean: “페트로자보츠크”
  • Ladin: “Petrosavodsk”
  • Latin: “Petri Fabrica”
  • Latvian: “Petrozavodska”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Петрозаводск”
  • Persian: “پتروزاودسک”
  • Polish: “Petrozawodzk”
  • Polish: “Pietrozawodsk”
  • Portuguese: “Petrozavodsk”
  • Pushto: “پيټروز اوډسک”
  • 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”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پتروزاودسک”
  • Spanish: “Petrozavodsk”
  • Swahili: “Petrozavodsk”
  • Swedish: “Onegaborg”
  • Swedish: “Petroskoj”
  • Swedish: “Petrozavodsk”
  • Tagalog: “Petrozavodsk”
  • 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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