Shlisselburg
Shlisselburg, formerly Oreshek or Orekhovy is an island, town and fortress in Central Leningrad Oblast. The fortress and the town centre are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Photo: Macs24, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 14,800 residents
- Description: town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia
- Also known as: “Notteburgum”, “Orechovets”, “Orekhovets”, “Oresca”, “Oreschek”, “Oreshek”, “Petrokrepost”, “Petrokrepost’”, “Schliisselburg”, “Schlisselburg”, “Schluesselburg”, “Schlüselburg”, “Shlissel’burg”, “Slisszelburg”, “Шлиссельбу́рг”, “מבצר שליסלבורג”, and “施吕瑟尔堡”
- Address: Кировский район, 187320
- Postal code: 187320
Places of Interest
Highlights include Orekhovy Island and Petrokrepost‘ Station.
Orekhovy Island
Islet
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Imeni Morozova and Oreshek.
Imeni Morozova
Town
Oreshek
Locality
Shlisselburg
- Categories: city or town, fixed construction, fortified town, and locality
- Location: Kirovsky District, Central Leningrad Oblast, Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.9404° or 59° 56′ 26″ north
Longitude
31.0337° or 31° 2′ 1″ east
Population
14,800
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
United Nations Location Code
RU PEK
Open location code
9GFHW2RM+5F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wolof—“Shlisselburg” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Schlüsselburg”
- Arabic: “شليسلبورغ”
- Aymara: “Schlüsselburg”
- Azerbaijani: “Şlisselburq”
- Bashkir: “Шлиссельбург”
- Belarusian: “Шлісельбург”
- Belarusian: “Шлісэльбург”
- Bulgarian: “Шлиселбург”
- Catalan: “Schlüsselburg”
- Cebuano: “Schlüsselburg”
- Cebuano: “Shlissel’burg”
- Chechen: “Шлиссельбург”
- Chinese: “什利謝利堡”
- Crimean Tatar: “Şlisselburg”
- Czech: “Šlisselburg”
- Danish: “Sjlisselburg”
- Dimli (individual language): “Shlisselburg”
- Dutch: “Sjlisselburg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شليسلبورج”
- Esperanto: “Ŝlisselburg”
- Esperanto: “Ŝlisselburgo”
- Estonian: “Schlüsselburg”
- Finnish: “Lyyssinlinna” (historical)
- Finnish: “Pähkinälinna”
- French: “Chlisselbourg”
- Georgian: “შლისელბურგი”
- German: “Schlüsselburg”
- Greek: “Σλισελμπούργκ”
- Greek: “Σλίσελμπουργκ”
- Hebrew: “שליסלבורג”
- Hungarian: “Schlüsselburg”
- Ido: “Shlisselburg”
- Irish: “Shlisselburg”
- Italian: “Šlissel’burg”
- Japanese: “シュリッセリブルク”
- Karelian: “Pähkinälinna”
- Kinaray-A: “Schlüsselburg”
- Korean: “실리셀부르크”
- Latin: “Clidopolis”
- Latin: “Schlusselburgum”
- Latvian: “Šliselburga”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shlisselburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjlisselburg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sjlisselburg”
- Norwegian: “Sjlisselburg”
- Ossetian: “Шлиссельбург”
- Persian: “شلیسلبورگ”
- Polish: “Szlisselburg”
- Portuguese: “Shlisselburg”
- Quechua: “Schlüsselburg”
- Russian: “Нотебург” (historical)
- Russian: “Петрокрепость” (historical)
- Russian: “Шлиссельбург”
- Serbian: “Шлисељбург”
- Slovak: “Šlisseľburg”
- Slovenian: “Šlisselburg”
- South Azerbaijani: “شلیسلبورق”
- Spanish: “Schlüsselburg”
- Swedish: “Nöteborg” (historical)
- Tagalog: “Shlisselburg”
- Talysh: “Šlisselburg”
- Tatar: “Шлисселбург”
- Tatar: “Шлиссельбург”
- Turkish: “Şlisselburg”
- Ukrainian: “Шліссельбург”
- Upper Sorbian: “Šlisselburg”
- Urdu: “شلیسل برگ”
- Veps: “Šlissel’burg”
- Vietnamese: “Shlisselburg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shlisselburg”
- Welsh: “Schlüsselburg”
- Wolof: “Shlisselburg”
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