Staraya Russa
Staraya Russa is a small, historic town in the center of Novgorod Oblast, long famous domestically for its balneologic mineral waters resort, but much more famous among international travellers as Dostoyevsky's summer retreat, and the basis for the fictional town of Skotoprigonievsk in The Brothers Karamazov.Photo: Oldgentleman83, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 28,000 residents
- Description: town in Novgorod Oblast, Russia
- Address: Старорусский муниципальный округ
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dostoyevsky House in Staraya Russa and Church of the Resurrection of Christ.
Transfiguration Monastery, Staraya Russa
Church
The Transfiguration Monastery is a former Russian Orthodox monastery founded in 1192. The monastery is located in the city of Staraya Russa, on the right bank of the Polist River. It is currently occupied by the Staraya Russa Town Museum.
Staraya Russa
- Categories: city or town and locality
- Location: Novgorod Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.9899° or 57° 59′ 24″ northLongitude
31.3635° or 31° 21′ 49″ eastPopulation
28,000Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)United Nations Location Code
RU SYROpen location code
9G9HX9Q7+X9OpenStreetMap ID
node 2261998876OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Staraya Russa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ستارايا روسا”
- Armenian: “Ստարայա Ռուսա”
- Armenian: “Ստարայա Ռուսսա”
- Azerbaijani: “Staraya Russa”
- Bashkir: “Иҫке Русса”
- Belarusian: “Старая Руса”
- Bulgarian: “Старая Руса”
- Catalan: “Staraia Russa”
- Catalan: “Staraïa Russa”
- Cebuano: “Staraya Russa”
- Chinese: “Staraya Russa”
- Chinese: “旧鲁萨”
- Crimean Tatar: “Staraya Russa”
- Czech: “Staraja Russa”
- Danish: “Staraja Russa”
- Dutch: “Staraja Roessa”
- Esperanto: “Staraja Russa”
- Estonian: “Staraja Russa”
- Finnish: “Staraja Russa”
- French: “Staraïa Roussa”
- Georgian: “სტარაია-რუსა”
- German: “Staraja Russa”
- Greek: “Στάραγια Ρούσα”
- Greek: “Στάραϊα Ρούσα”
- Hebrew: “סטאראיה רוסה”
- Hebrew: “סטאריה רוסה”
- Hebrew: “סטראיה רוסה”
- Hebrew: “סטריה רוסה”
- Hebrew: “סטרייה רוסה”
- Hungarian: “Sztaraja Russza”
- Italian: “Staraja Russa”
- Italian: “Staraya Russa”
- Japanese: “スターラヤ・ルーサ”
- Japanese: “スタラヤ・ルーサ”
- Korean: “스타라야루사”
- Latin: “Prisca Russa”
- Latvian: “Staraja Rusa”
- Macedonian: “Стараја Руса”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Staraya Russa”
- Moksha: “Сире Русса”
- Northern Frisian: “Staraja Russa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Staraja Russa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Staraja Russa”
- Norwegian: “Staraja Russa”
- Ossetian: “Зæронд Руссæ”
- Persian: “استارایا روسا”
- Polish: “Stara Russa”
- Portuguese: “Staraya Russa”
- Romanian: “Staraia Russa”
- Russian: “Руса”
- Russian: “Старая Русса”
- Serbian: “Стараја Руса”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Staraja Rusa”
- South Azerbaijani: “استارایا روسا”
- Spanish: “Staraya Rusa”
- Spanish: “Stáraya Rusa”
- Swedish: “Staraja Russa”
- Tagalog: “Staraya Russa”
- Talysh: “Staraja Russa”
- Tatar: “Иске Русса”
- Turkish: “Staraya Russa”
- Ukrainian: “Стара Русса”
- Upper Sorbian: “Staraja Russa”
- Veps: “Vanh Russ”
- Vietnamese: “Staraya Russa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Staraya Russa”
- Western Frisian: “Staraja Rûssa”
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