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Orenburg
Orenburg Oblast, Russia · Europe
About Orenburg
Orenburg sits on the route: 20 minutes from Podgorodnyaya Pokrovka.
Orenburg is in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, with about 560,000 people. The nearest town is Podgorodnyaya Pokrovka, about 10 km away.
Orenburg (Russian: Оренбу́рг, pronounced [ɐrʲɪnˈburk], Kazakh: Орынбор, romanized: Orynbor), formerly known as Chkalov (1938–1957), is the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It lies in Eastern Europe, near the boundary of Europe and Asia, along the banks of the Ural River, being approximately 1,480Read more
kilometers (920 mi) southeast of Moscow.
Orenburg is close to the border with Kazakhstan. Founded in the 18th century, the city was an important place for Kazakh–Russian trade in the 19th century, the founding place of the first two Kazakh republics in the 20th century, and then the first capital of the Kazakh ASSR from 1920 to 1925.
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Orenburg is in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, about 10 km from Podgorodnyaya Pokrovka.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 564,773
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Russia
- Region
- Orenburg Oblast
- Timezone
- Asia/Yekaterinburg
- Coordinates
- 51.7671, 55.0988
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