Saransk
Saransk is the capital city of the Republic of Mordovia, its financial and economic center. It is located on the river Insar, about 642 km southeast of Moscow.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mordovia Arena and Republican Erzya Museum.
Mordovia Arena
Stadium
Mordovia Arena is a football stadium in Saransk, Mordovia, Russia built for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It hosted FC Mordovia Saransk, prior to their dissolution in 2020 from the Russian Professional Football League, replacing Start Stadium.
Republican Erzya Museum
Museum
The Mordovian Republican Museum of Visual Arts Named after S.D. Erzya is a museum in the city of Saransk in the Mordovian Republic. The Erzya Mordovian Museum of Visual Arts holds the world's largest collection of more than 200 works done by the famous Erzyan sculptor Stepan Dmitrievich Erzya.
St. Feodor Ushakov Cathedral
Church
The Cathedral of St. Theodore Ushakov is a Russian Orthodox cathedral in Saransk, serving as the cathedral of the Diocese of Saransk. The cathedral is named for Russian saint and admiral Fyodor Ushakov.
Saransk
- Type: City with 309,000 residents
- Description: city in Russia
- Categories: administrative divisions of Russia, city or town, big city, and locality
- Location: Mordovia, Volga Region, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.1867° or 54° 11′ 12″ north
Longitude
45.1838° or 45° 11′ 2″ east
Population
309,000
Elevation
168 metres (551 feet)
IATA airport code
SKX
United Nations Location Code
RU SKX
Open location code
9H6755PM+MG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Saransk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Saransk”
- Amharic: “ሳራንስክ”
- Arabic: “سارانسك”
- Armenian: “Սարանսկ”
- Asturian: “Saransk”
- Azerbaijani: “Saransk”
- Balinese: “Saransk”
- Bashkir: “Саранск”
- Basque: “Saransk”
- Belarusian: “Саранск”
- Bengali: “সারান্স্ক”
- Bengali: “সারান্স্ক”
- Bosnian: “Saransk”
- Bulgarian: “Саранск”
- Burmese: “ဆာရန်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Saransk”
- Cebuano: “Saransk”
- Chechen: “Саранск”
- Chinese: “Saransk”
- Chinese: “萨兰斯克”
- Chinese: “薩蘭斯克”
- Chuvash: “Саранск”
- Crimean Tatar: “Saransk”
- Croatian: “Saransk”
- Czech: “Saransk”
- Danish: “Saransk”
- Dimli (individual language): “Saransk”
- Dutch: “Saransk”
- Eastern Mari: “Саранск”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سارانسك”
- Erzya: “Саран ош”
- Erzya: “Саранской”
- Esperanto: “Saransk”
- Esperanto: “Saransko”
- Estonian: “Saranoš”
- Estonian: “Saransk”
- Finnish: “Saransk”
- French: “Saransk”
- Galician: “Saransk”
- Georgian: “სარანსკი”
- German: “Saransk”
- Greek: “Σαράνσκ”
- Gujarati: “સારાન્સ્ક”
- Hakka Chinese: “Saransk”
- Hausa: “Saransk”
- Hebrew: “סרנסק”
- Hindi: “सरांस्क”
- Hindi: “सारांस्क”
- Hungarian: “Szaranszk”
- Ido: “Saransk”
- Indonesian: “Saransk”
- Interlingue: “Saransk”
- Irish: “Saransk”
- Italian: “Saransk”
- Japanese: “サランスク”
- Javanese: “Saransk”
- Kalmyk: “Саранск балһсн”
- Kannada: “ಸರನ್ಸ್ಕ್”
- Kazakh: “Саранск”
- Kirghiz: “Саранск”
- Komi-Permyak: “Саран”
- Komi: “Саранош”
- Korean: “사란스크”
- Ladin: “Saransk”
- Latin: “Saranum”
- Latvian: “Saranoša”
- Latvian: “Saranska”
- Limburgan: “Saransk”
- Lithuanian: “Saranskas”
- Macedonian: “Саранск”
- Malay: “Saransk”
- Maltese: “Saransk”
- Maori: “Haraniki”
- Marathi: “सारान्स्क”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Saransk”
- Mingrelian: “სარანსკი”
- Moksha: “Саранош”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saransk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saransk”
- Norwegian: “Saransk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Saransk”
- Oromo: “Saransk”
- Ossetian: “Саранск”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਰਾਨਸਕ”
- Persian: “سارانسک”
- Polish: “Sarańsk”
- Portuguese: “Sarânseque”
- Portuguese: “Saransk”
- Pushto: “سارانسک”
- Pushto: “سارنسک”
- Quechua: “Saransk”
- Romanian: “Saransk”
- Russian: “Саранск”
- Russian: “Сара́нск”
- Scots: “Saransk”
- Serbian: “Саранск”
- Sinhala: “සරන්ස්ක්”
- Slovak: “Saransk”
- Slovenian: “Saransk”
- Somali: “Saransk”
- South Azerbaijani: “سارانسک”
- Spanish: “Saransk”
- Swahili: “Saransk”
- Swedish: “Saransk”
- Tagalog: “Saransk”
- Tajik: “Саранск”
- Talysh: “Saransk”
- Tamil: “சரன்ஸ்க்”
- Tamil: “சரான்சுக்”
- Tatar: “Саран”
- Tatar: “Саранск”
- Telugu: “సారంస్క్”
- Thai: “ซารันสค์”
- Turkish: “Saransk”
- Udmurt: “Саранск”
- Ukrainian: “Саранськ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Saransk”
- Urdu: “سارانسک”
- Uzbek: “Saransk”
- Venetian: “Saransk”
- Veps: “Saransk”
- Vietnamese: “Saransk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Saransk”
- Welsh: “Saransk”
- Western Frisian: “Saransk”
- Western Panjabi: “سرانسک”
- Wu Chinese: “萨兰斯克”
- Yue Chinese: “薩蘭斯克”
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