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.
Photo: Ludvig14, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 14,800 residents
- Description: town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia
- Also known as: “Orechovets”, “Orekhovets”, “Oreshek”, “Petrokrepost’”, “Schliisselburg”, “Schlisselburg”, “Schluesselburg”, “Schlüselburg”, “Schlüsselburg”, and “Shlissel’burg”
- Address: Кировский район, 187320
- Postal code: 187320
Places of Interest
Highlights include Orekhovy Island and Petrokrepost‘ Station.
Orekhovy Island
Islet
Photo: Messir, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Orekhovy Island is an island in Russia, situated in Lake Ladoga and located at the confluence of Ladoga and the River Neva, at the town of Shlisselburg in Leningrad Oblast.
Petrokrepost‘ Station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Petrokrepost‘ Station is a railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Imeni Morozova and Oreshyok.
Imeni Morozova
Town
Photo: Даниил1252, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Imeni Morozova is an urban locality in Vsevolozhsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the bank of Lake Ladoga by the source of the Neva River, northeast of Saint Petersburg. Imeni Morozova is situated 3½ km north of Shlisselburg.
Oreshyok
Locality
Photo: Moneycantbuy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Oreshek Fortress is one of a series of fortifications built in Oreshek on Orekhovy Island in Lake Ladoga, near the modern city of Saint Petersburg in Russia.
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
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Latitude
59.9404° or 59° 56′ 26″ northLongitude
31.0337° or 31° 2′ 1″ eastPopulation
14,800Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)United Nations Location Code
RU PEKOpen location code
9GFHW2RM+5FOpenStreetMap ID
node 373930564OpenStreetMap 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”
- Chinese: “Shlisselburg”
- Chinese: “什利謝利堡”
- Chinese: “施吕瑟尔堡”
- Crimean Tatar: “Şlisselburg”
- Czech: “Šlisselburg”
- Danish: “Nöteborg”
- 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: “Nöteborg”
- German: “Schlisselburg”
- German: “Schlüsselburg”
- Greek: “Σλισελμπούργκ”
- Greek: “Σλίσελμπουργκ”
- Hebrew: “מבצר שליסלבורג”
- Hebrew: “שליסלבורג”
- Hungarian: “Nöteborg”
- Hungarian: “Schlüsselburg”
- Hungarian: “Slisszelburg”
- 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: “Notteburgum”
- Latin: “Oresca”
- 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”
- Russian: “Шлиссельбу́рг”
- Serbian: “Шлисељбург”
- Slovak: “Šlisseľburg”
- Slovenian: “Šlisselburg”
- South Azerbaijani: “شلیسلبورق”
- Spanish: “Schlüsselburg”
- Spanish: “Shlisselburg”
- Swedish: “Nöteborg” (historical)
- Swedish: “Sjlisselburg”
- Tagalog: “Shlisselburg”
- Talysh: “Šlisselburg”
- Tatar: “Шлисселбург”
- Tatar: “Шлиссельбург”
- Turkish: “Schlüsselburg”
- Turkish: “Şlisselburg”
- Ukrainian: “Шліссельбург”
- Upper Sorbian: “Šlisselburg”
- Urdu: “شلیسل برگ”
- Veps: “Šlissel’burg”
- Vietnamese: “Schlüsselburg”
- Vietnamese: “Shlisselburg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shlisselburg”
- Welsh: “Schlüsselburg”
- Wolof: “Shlisselburg”
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