Ulyanovsk

Ulyanovsk is the capital and principal city of . Originally known as Simbirsk, in 1924 the city was renamed after Vladimir Lenin, who was born here.
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  • Type: City with 613,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia
  • Also known as: Simbirsk”, “Sinbirsk”, “Uljanowska am Wolga”, “Симби́рск”, and “Синби́рск
  • Postal code: 432000
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Simbirsk Chuvash teacher’s school and Ulyanovsk Regional Puppet Theatre.

Museum
Simbirsk Chuvash teacher's school is the training center for the creative intelligentsia of the Chuvash and other peoples of the Volga region. Center founded educator of Chuvash people I.

University
Ulyanovsk State Agricultural University is a higher education and research institution in Ulyanovsk. It was established in 1943.

Ulyanovsk

Latitude
54.315° or 54° 18′ 54″ north
Longitude
48.4034° or 48° 24′ 12″ east
Population
613,000
Elevation
176 metres (577 feet)
Inception
1648
IATA airport code
ULY
United Nations Location Code
RU ULY
Open location code
9H6C8C83+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 711715624
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
479123
Wiki­data ID
Q5627
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ulyanovsk” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Oeljanofsk
  • Arabic: أوليانوفسك
  • Arabic: اوليانوفسك
  • Armenian: Ուլյանովսկ
  • Asturian: Uliánovsk
  • Azerbaijani: Ulyanovsk
  • Bashkir: Сембер
  • Bashkir: Ульяновск
  • Basque: Ulianovsk
  • Belarusian: Сімбірск
  • Belarusian: Сінбірск
  • Belarusian: Ульянаўск
  • Bengali: উলিয়ানভস্ক
  • Bengali: উলিয়ানভ্স্ক
  • Bengali: উলিয়ানভ্‌স্ক
  • Bengali: উলিয়ানোভস্ক
  • Bosnian: Uljanovsk
  • Breton: Oulyanovsk
  • Bulgarian: Уляновск
  • Catalan: Simbirsk
  • Catalan: Uliànovsk
  • Cebuano: Ulyanovsk
  • Chechen: Ульяновск
  • Chinese: Ulyanovsk
  • Chinese: 乌里扬诺夫斯克
  • Chinese: 烏里揚諾夫斯克
  • Church Slavic: Оулиꙗновьскъ
  • Chuvash: Чĕмпĕр
  • Crimean Tatar: Ulyanovsk
  • Croatian: Uljanovsk
  • Czech: Simbirsk
  • Czech: Uljanovsk
  • Danish: Uljanovsk
  • Dimli (individual language): Ulyanovsk
  • Dutch: Oeljanovsk
  • Eastern Mari: Сембер
  • Erzya: Ульянонь ош
  • Esperanto: Simbirsk
  • Esperanto: Uljanovsk
  • Esperanto: Uljanovsko
  • Estonian: Uljanovsk
  • Finnish: Uljanovsk
  • French: Oulianovsk
  • Galician: Ulianovsk
  • Georgian: ულიანოვსკი
  • German: Uljanowsk
  • Greek: Ουλιάνοφσκ
  • Greek: Σιμπίρσκ
  • Gujarati: ઉલ્યાનૉવસ્ક
  • Hakka Chinese: Ulyanovsk
  • Hausa: Ulyanovsk
  • Hebrew: אוליאנובסק
  • Hindi: उल्यानोव्स्क
  • Hungarian: Uljanovszk
  • Icelandic: Úljanovsk
  • Icelandic: Ulyanovsk
  • Inari Sami: Uljanovsk
  • Indonesian: Ulyanovsk
  • Irish: Ulyanovsk
  • Italian: Simbirsk
  • Italian: Ul’janovsk
  • Japanese: ウリヤノフスク
  • Kannada: ಉಲಿಯಾನೋವ್ಸ್ಕ್
  • Kashubian: Uljanowsk
  • Kazakh: Сімбір
  • Kazakh: Ульяновск
  • Kirghiz: Ульяновск
  • Komi: Ульяновск
  • Korean: 울리야놉스크
  • Ladin: Ulianovsk
  • Lao: ອູລຍານອຟສຄ໌
  • Latin: Simbirium
  • Latvian: Uļjanovska
  • Lithuanian: Uljanovskas
  • Lower Sorbian: Uljanowsk
  • Luxembourgish: Uljanowsk
  • Macedonian: Улјановск
  • Macedonian: Уљановск
  • Macedonian: Уљјановск
  • Malay: Ulyanovsk
  • Maltese: Ulyanovsk
  • Marathi: उल्यानोव्स्क
  • Min Nan Chinese: Ulyanovsk
  • Mingrelian: ულიანოვსკი
  • Mongolian: Ульяновск
  • Moroccan Arabic: أوليانوڤسك
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Uljanovsk
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Uljanovsk
  • Norwegian: Uljanovsk
  • Ossetian: Ульяновск
  • Papiamento: Ulianovsk
  • Papiamento: Ulyanovsk
  • Persian: اولیانوفسک
  • Polish: Uljanowsk
  • Portuguese: Ulianovsk
  • Pushto: اوليانوسک
  • Romanian: Ulianovsk
  • Russia Buriat: Ульяновск
  • Russian: Симбирск
  • Russian: Синбирск
  • Russian: Ульск
  • Russian: Ульяновск
  • Rusyn: Ульяновск
  • Scots: Ulyanovsk
  • Serbian: Уљановск
  • Serbo-Croatian: Uljanovsk
  • Silesian: Uljanowsk
  • Sinhala: උල්යනොව්ස්ක්
  • Slovak: Ulianovsk
  • Slovenian: Uljanovsk
  • South Azerbaijani: اولیانوفسک
  • Spanish: Simbirsk
  • Spanish: Ulianovsk
  • Spanish: Uliánovsk
  • Swahili: Ulyanovsk
  • Swedish: Simbirsk
  • Swedish: Sinbirsk
  • Swedish: Uljanovsk
  • Tagalog: Ulyanovsk
  • Tajik: Уляновск
  • Talysh: Uljanovsk
  • Talysh: Ulyanovsk
  • Tamil: உல்யனாவ்ஸ்க்
  • Tatar: Сембер
  • Tatar: Ульян
  • Tatar: Ульяновск
  • Telugu: ఉల్యానోవ్శ్క్
  • Thai: อูลยานอฟสค์
  • Tumbuka: Ulyanovsk
  • Turkish: Ulyanovsk
  • Udmurt: Ульяновск
  • Ukrainian: Симбірськ
  • Ukrainian: Сінбірськ
  • Ukrainian: Ульяновськ
  • Upper Sorbian: Uljanowsk
  • Urdu: اولیانووسک
  • Uzbek: Ulyanovsk
  • Venetian: Ul’janovsk
  • Veps: Ul’janovsk
  • Veps: Uljanovsk
  • Vietnamese: Ulyanovsk
  • Waray (Philippines): Ulyanovsk
  • Welsh: Ul’yanovsk
  • Welsh: Ulyanovsk
  • Western Frisian: Oeljanovsk
  • Western Frisian: Uljanovsk
  • Western Panjabi: الیانووسک
  • Wolof: Ulyanovsk
  • Wu Chinese: 乌里扬诺夫斯克
  • Yue Chinese: 烏里揚諾夫斯克
  • Ульяновск

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