Smolensk
Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, 360 kilometers west-southwest of Moscow. It has a population of 316,570 .| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Николай Смолянкин, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 325,000 residents
- Description: city and administrative center of Smolensk Oblast in central Russia
- Also known as: “Smoleńsk”, “Smolenzki”, and “город Смоленск”
- Address: городской округ Смоленск
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dormition Cathedral in Smolensk and Smolensk railway station.
Dormition Cathedral in Smolensk
Church
The Cathedral Church of the Dormition, dominating the city of Smolensk, Russia, from Cathedral Hill, has been the principal church of the Smolensk bishopric for 800 years.
Smolensk railway station
Railway station
Smolensk railway station is the primary passenger railway station for the city of Smolensk in Russia, and an important stop along the Moscow–Brest Railway.
Immaculate Conception Church, Smolensk
Church
Photo: Amelin Serg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Immaculate Conception Church is an old Catholic church in the city of Smolensk in Russia. This neo-Gothic building was built from 1884 to 1896 and hosted the Regional Archive of Smolensk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Новосельцы and Alexandrovka.
Smolensk
- Categories: big city, city/town in Russia, administrative divisions of Russia, capital city, and locality
- Location: Smolensk Oblast, Central Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.7814° or 54° 46′ 53″ northLongitude
32.0461° or 32° 2′ 46″ eastPopulation
325,000Elevation
238 metres (781 feet)IATA airport code
LNXUnited Nations Location Code
RU LNXOpen location code
9G6JQ2JW+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 27072633OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
491687Wikidata ID
Q2337
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Smolensk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Smolensk”
- Albanian: “Smolensk”
- Albanian: “Smolensku”
- Amharic: “ስመልየንስክ”
- Arabic: “سمولينسك”
- Armenian: “Սմոլենսկ”
- Asturian: “Smolensk”
- Azerbaijani: “Smolensk”
- Bashkir: “Смоленск”
- Basque: “Smolensk”
- Belarusian: “Смаленск”
- Bengali: “স্মলেন্সক”
- Bosnian: “Smolensk”
- Breton: “Smolensk”
- Bulgarian: “Смоленск”
- Catalan: “Smolensk”
- Cebuano: “Smolensk”
- Chechen: “Смоленск”
- Chinese: “Smolensk”
- Chinese: “斯摩倫斯克”
- Chinese: “斯摩棱斯克”
- Church Slavic: “Смольньскъ”
- Chuvash: “Смоленск”
- Chuvash: “Смулен”
- Crimean Tatar: “Smolensk”
- Croatian: “Smolensk”
- Czech: “Smolensk”
- Danish: “Smolensk”
- Dimli (individual language): “Smolensk”
- Dutch: “Smolensk”
- Eastern Mari: “Смоленск”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سمولينسك”
- Erzya: “Смоленск ош”
- Esperanto: “Smolensk”
- Estonian: “Smolensk”
- Finnish: “Smolensk”
- French: “Smolensk”
- Galician: “Smolensk”
- Georgian: “სმოლენსკი”
- German: “Smolensk”
- Greek: “Σμολένσκ”
- Gujarati: “સ્મોલેન્સ્ક”
- Hakka Chinese: “Smolensk”
- Hebrew: “סמולנסק”
- Hindi: “स्मोलेन्स्क”
- Hindi: “स्मोलेंस्क”
- Hungarian: “Szmolenszk”
- Icelandic: “Smolensk”
- Ido: “Smolensk”
- Indonesian: “Smolensk”
- Interlingue: “Smolensk”
- Irish: “Smolensk”
- Italian: “Smolensk”
- Italian: “Smoleńsk”
- Japanese: “スモレンスク”
- Javanese: “Smolensk”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಮೋಲೆನ್ಸ್ಕ್”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಮೋಲೇನ್ಸ್ಕ”
- Kazakh: “Смоленск”
- Kirghiz: “Смоленск”
- Korean: “스몰렌스크”
- Ladin: “Smolensk”
- Latin: “Smolenscum”
- Latvian: “Smoļenska”
- Limburgan: “Smolensk”
- Lithuanian: “Smolenskas”
- Lombard: “Smolensk”
- Low German: “Smolensk”
- Lower Sorbian: “Smolensk”
- Luxembourgish: “Smolensk”
- Macedonian: “Смоленск”
- Malagasy: “Smolensk”
- Malay: “Smolensk”
- Maori: “Homoreniki”
- Marathi: “स्मोलेन्स्क”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Smolensk”
- Mingrelian: “სმოლენსკი”
- Moksha: “Смоленск”
- Mongolian: “Смоленск”
- Moroccan Arabic: “سمولنسك”
- Nauru: “Smolensk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Smolensk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Smolensk”
- Norwegian: “Smolensk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Esmalensk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Smolensk”
- Ossetian: “Смоленск”
- Persian: “اسمولنسک”
- Polish: “Smoleńsk”
- Portuguese: “Smolensk”
- Pushto: “سمولينسک”
- Romanian: “Smolensk”
- Russian: “Смоленск”
- Rusyn: “Смоленьск”
- Samogitian: “Smuolenskos”
- Scots: “Smolensk”
- Serbian: “Смоленск”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Smolensk”
- Sicilian: “Smolensk”
- Silesian: “Smoleńsk”
- Sinhala: “ස්මොලෙන්ස්ක්”
- Slovak: “Smolensk”
- Slovenian: “Smolensk”
- South Azerbaijani: “اسمولنسک”
- Spanish: “Smolensk”
- Swahili: “Smolensk”
- Swedish: “Smolensk”
- Tagalog: “Smolensk”
- Tajik: “Смоленск”
- Talysh: “Smolensk”
- Tamil: “ஸ்மொலென்ஸ்க்”
- Tatar: “Смоленск”
- Telugu: “స్మోలెన్స్క్”
- Thai: “สโมเลนสค์”
- Turkish: “Smolensk”
- Twi: “Smolensk”
- Udmurt: “Смоленск”
- Ukrainian: “Смоленськ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Smolensk”
- Urdu: “سمولنسک”
- Uzbek: “Smolensk”
- Venetian: “Smolensk”
- Veps: “Smolensk”
- Vietnamese: “Smolensk”
- Vlaams: “Smolensk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Smolensk”
- Welsh: “Smolensk”
- Western Frisian: “Smolensk”
- Wolof: “Smolensk”
- Wu Chinese: “斯摩棱斯克”
- Yakut: “Смоленскай”
- Yiddish: “סמאלענסק”
- Yoruba: “Smolensk”
- Yue Chinese: “斯摩棱斯克”
- “Smuolenskos”
- “Смоленск”
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